UC and Crohn's

i was dx with UC first but i had scope in oct just a short one and the doc said it was UC than i had a big colon scope in des and then they could see i had CD so i think the oct dx was just wrong and i had always had CD they just did not see the whole colon in oct..

they also had me take a cam pill to see my small intestine and i have some flare up there not much though..

I think 7% of people who are dx with UC have actually crohn's

I was lucky enough to be diagnosed with both at the same time... yea me...

Actually CD cannot turn into UC nor can UC turn into CD...you were either misDX as having UC (when you actually had crohn's colitis which is simply CD affecting the colon) or you're one of the very unlucky 2% of patients that has both UC and CD, but one does not turn into the other, they are 2 seperate entities.


Kriss, did your doc tell you that you had crohn's colitis? Because that is not the same as having both CD and UC, cronh's colitis is actually CD affecting the colon, col=colon and itis=inflammation.


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Yup, crohn's colitis is actually crohn's affecting the colon, proctitis is inflammation of the rectom from EITHER crohn's or UC...UC affects the colon/rectom only, CD can affect any part of the GI tract from the anus to the mouth.

I too have crohn's colitis and sometimes I get proctitis but cortifoam rectal meds tends to clear the proctitis up for me, I also have perianal crohn's skin tags (located on the anus, outside not inside as that would be part of the rectom, the rectom is internal and the anus is external).

CD can also affect more than one area of the GI tract at a time (as it does with me) when I first got sick (18 yrs ago) it was in my small intestine (the TI), colon, rectom and anus.

With CD the inflammation can (and often does) affect layers of the intestinal lining, with UC the inflammation is on the surface of the lining only, never goes through the many layers as it does with CD (which is why fistulas are more common with CD and not with UC) also, with CD there are skipped patterns of inflammation (healthy tissues in between inflammed) with UC the entire area will be inflammed with no skipped patterns.

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