Is it really Crohn's?

Hello! I'm a new member here, however its not my first time visiting this forum. Looking at other people's comments, recommendations, etc. have really been insightful so I decided to make an account and ask a question here myself.

Around April of 2015 I started to randomly have diarrhea. It was totally out of the blue, one day I was fine, the next day it was bad. For the first month or so I didn't think too much about it. In the beginning of the second month I started developing a hemorrhoids from the constant toilet sitting, and going to the restroom was like visiting hell (because of the hemorrhoids). By the end of the 2nd month I knew something was terribly wrong. I knew my trip to Alaska was coming up soon so I wanted to do something to fix this problem as fast as possible. I finally told my parents and they took me to a small little clinic where the doctor asked for my symptoms and then just gave me antibiotics and several other medications, along with recommendation to eat vitamin B12. I did what he said but to no prevail. One week before my trip to Alaska I started feeling super weak, lost 10 pounds, and started having cold sores all over my mouth and upon visiting the doctor again they gave me some more antibiotics and this time recommendation to eat some Vitamin C. For some random reason, a few days before my trip to Alaska my symptoms started to decrease. During my trip there, I had no stomach pain, no diarrhea, I gained back 7 pounds, and overall I was back to normal. I came back to the U.S. and within a week or so I started having diarrhea again so this time we went to a GI. After the colonoscopy, my GI said, according to my parents since I wasn't there to hear it, that I SEEM to have Crohn's. My GI gave me UCERIS 9mg and after taking the medication things seem to have gotten better, occasionally I would have diarrhea for a day or two then back to normal. Around 2 months later my family and I finally decided to go visit a new doctor that hopefully will be my official care taker since I never had a primary doctor before. This new doctor was extremely nice, answered all my questions, and took my opinions into consideration very realistically (unlike my GI who was very rude and didn't seem very passionate about his job). Anyways, I showed my new primary doctor a picture of the colonoscopy and his reaction was like "huh?" doesn't really look like Crohn's to me...but if the GI says so.

Fast forward to today. I've been on UCERIS for 6 months now. For those who don't know what UCERIS is, UCERIS makes use of budesonide to treat flare ups and its a glucocorticosteroid. However unlike other steroids, according to UCERIS, the synthetic steroid was made so that it remains in my bowel rather than entering my blood stream (apparently only 10% enters the bloodstream) . Now I still understand that its a steroid so today I visited my primary doctor and asked him several questions.

How should I taper off of this medication?
My GI recommended HUMIRA but biologics are meant to treat moderate to severe Crohn's so would taking the top down approach be a good idea?

Resource: (www.Humira.com "Moderate to severe Crohn's disease (CD) and to achieve and maintain clinical remission in adults who have not responded well to conventional treatments.)

Upon asking my primary doctor the second question he told me that he had a nagging suspicion about my diagnosis. The only symptoms I had when it was bad was abdominal pain and diarrhea. I only had blood in the toilet water whenever I developed my hemorrhoids and never before. Lastly if I ever did have diarrhea while on UCERIS it would only be if I ate something to upset my stomach (although I do feel like my bowel is a lot more sensitive to what I eat than before). My doctor also brought up that when he received the biopsy result from my GI it didn't say that the biopsy found Crohn's and that he believes my GI just diagnosed me with Crohn's.

Now he wants me to taper off of UCERIS and see how my symptoms go. If I start having diarrhea really badly and have blood in my stool then start up UCERIS again and he will start me on with a new GI and get me on HUMIRA or 5-ASA depending on what she recommends (according to my primary care doctor this new GI is named Mrs. Choi and is extremely well reviewed and helpful).

Well for anyone who actually reads this extremely long post, I would be extremely grateful for all the opinions you guys give on this possible misdiagnose. If you guys want a picture of the colonoscopy I can post that picture as well. Also I do realize that the response that are given here aren't from a certified doctor, however I believe everyone here has valuable wisdom to give to me especially due to first hand experience. Thank You!

Welcome to the forum HWAH, is it possible to get a second opinion from another GI doc? Your primary doctor probably does not have the experience reading colonoscopies that a GI doc does. They also might order different tests to get more conclusive evidence of Crohn's. Also, are you sure that you don't have an anal fissure? I have had both hemorrhoids and an anal fissure. For me, hemorrhoids didn't cause severe pain or bleeding yet the anal fissure was pure torture. It felt like I was passing shards of glass.