Is everyone with Chron's thin?

5 ft 4 , 102 lbs. Everytime I see my NP I am reminded I have lost another pound and I need to eat more. This is no fun because I can't get clothes to fit me from the waist down.

I am so glad you all have responded to this. I am definitely overweight have been for many years. I guess you could even call me obese for my height. The weird thing is, and this isn't anything to be proud of, but I should be much much heavier. I am not joking. You see everything goes through me right after I eat. And oddly if I am nauseous I eat thinking that it will help.. So, I continue to eat knowing darn well that food is making the symptoms worse... but I AM ALWAYS HUNGRY. Doesn't matter how sick I am I still eat.... Let me tell ya. I probably average 6-7 full meals a day. Not including snacks. And I am serious about the amount of food too. I should be 4,5,600lbs or more. I am not that active but I do still work and I try to exercise but with RA that is difficult too. So, I wonder if I ate like a normal person just three meals a day and didn't eat when I was flaring I would probably lose a lot of weight... I think it is my body saying I need to get the nutrients in and that is just how I respond to it by eating... I wonder if once the Chron's is under control that maybe I wouldn't always be so hungry... like I can eat and it might actually stick?

Theresa

This is something I deal with everyday. I am very underweight. I have always been this way before and after i was diagnosed. I'm 5'8 and weigh 106pounds. Someone else mentioned this but I find it a chore to eat I have no appeitite at all, but this is partly due to the 6mp.
People often make very rude comments usually something about how I am anorexic but I have learned to ingore them and just be happy with myself. I think that goes for everyone doesn't matter if you're overweight or underweight.

I have heard that it is comman to lose a lot of weight before you're diagnosed. I lost twenty pounds!!! That was part of the reason I was hospitalized and eventually diagnosed. But that doesn't mean that is how everyones syptoms present themselves.

After being diagnosed I have lost 125lbs

i'm considered thin. i'm about 15 lbs. under weight. before i was put on remicade i was 35lbs. under.
pre crohn's i weighed 175lbs. now i weigh 146lbs.

by the way i'm 6 feet tall with medium size bones.

I'm skinnier than others in my family. I'm about 118 now, I guess. Down to 114 a month or so ago due to stress from diagnosis and not being sure what to eat. I'm 5'-6". I had really dark circles under my eyes (and sunken eyes) for several months and I really felt like I wasn't getting the benefit of what I ate, even tho Crohn's in my small bowels has been pretty much ruled out. All I know is something is up, for me to be so much thinner than my family.

I should add that I haven't always been thin. I was quite chunky as a kid.

I am thin now but my normal weight is not thin =) I dropped 65 pounds last year during a major flare. I went without eating for several months. Once the Humira started to work, I started to eat! I've gained 10 pounds back but that's it. I'm trying really hard to keep it off.

I'm about 135 now at 5'4. I could lose 5-10 pounds to be a great weight but feel pretty darn good right now.

I DID weigh 185 last year so overweight.

I also think that you can be a "fatty' and still be malnourished from this CD. Face it, for me the "good stuff" like veggies and fruit etc make my tummy scream in pain, so I eat a lot of pasta, breads, rice, etc....not exactly your healthier foods. Also many of us are on very limitied incomes because of this darn Cd and the cost of meds, or lack of employment,disability. The good food is expensive. I found out how expensive when my daughter suffered from a gallbladder attack. we had to make everyhting low, or no fat....and of course the lesser the fat, the higher the price.
I guess limited incomes, low incomes really do contribute to the Morbidity of a country. The lower your income the higher your chances are of not being well. Even over the counter allergy medicine is impossible to buy for some families....its a vicious cycle.
Mary

Babybloo, I am always hungry too.

Mormor Vicky said...
All depends on where the disease activity is I guess. Mine was always in my lower colon so I had no problems with absorbing nutrients or having obstructions. Mine is fatigue and "d".

Nope, doesn't matter where it is.  I've had disease in the ileum and the colon, was skinny for years because of the disease, but am a chubby (ha, I wish I was only chubby) chronie now. 

And yes, you can be malnourished and be heavy with this disease, I'm living proof.  I have about 8 feet of small intestine only, need B12 shots, working on the Iron and Calcium, and am heavier than I ever was. 

Anyone see Oprah this week?  I'm thinking I'll have my thyroid checked as soon as I'm finished dealing with all my other issues, lol. 

Always been a smaller person....... 5'4 @ 110. I fluctuate between 105 and 110.

I am not thin either, actually obese. After the first onset of Crohns where I lost a lot of weight, I have steady been gaining over the last 7 years. My Crohns is currently under control with medication. My brother also has Crohns and is not thin either. His has been treated with multiple surgeries. My doctors told me that it does depend on multiple factors, metabolism, genetics etc. As long as I remain in control of my Crohn's, I wouldn't worry about what people say about my weight.

Becoming undone :)

That theory of having it in the colon doesn't hold true (and I don't think have it in both the colon and stomach would be an issue either for weight gain)...I'm 5'5" and 114 lbs and have crohns-colitis (CD affecting the colon where ulcerative colitis typically hangs out). I've had it affecting my colon my entire 16.5 yrs now and never became hugely over-weight, even with being pregnant during that time frame.

:)