Crohns or Colitis

I think Crohns because it can effect your entire digestive system.

Bottom line, crohn's is more serious because it can affect your entire GI tract ( mouth to anus) and also for part of this reason can be tougher to get under control, UC is limited to the colon/rectom area only, it too has the same extraintestinal manifestations, EXCEPT for fistulas, those are CD related only, obstructions/blockages are more common with CD than with UC, so CD is worse that UC in those regards...

Symptoms wise, you could have a mild crohnie compared to a severe UCer which would make the UCer somewhat worse off, symptom wise.

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ediekristan, no need to be offended when someone says "at least it's not crohn's", as you wrote "To be honest, I always got kind of offended when people said "well at least it's not Crohn's" like my disease isn't as bad and I must not be suffering as much. I agree, UC is better in the fact that it CAN be cured by surgery, where crohn's cannot."

We have polyps which can bleed these are basically the same as ulcers and although bleeding is more common with UC compared to CD *unless CD is affecting the colon*, having it throughout your intestinal tract along with the extraintestinal manifestations which are almost identicaly to the ones UCers get, we also can be plagued with fistulas and surgery for a crohnie basically means within a matter of time the disease will affect the area where surgery was done.

They both suck, but clinically CD is worse because of the extra complications and the entire GI tract being at risk.

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I would really like to not have either one I think they both are life altering. and cause alot of pain and agony

When I was a kid and got diagnosed at 15, in 1961 back in the dark ages, I WISHED I had anything except UC (of course I didn't know what Crohn's was). I did not know another human being my entire life (until five years ago ) who had UC. I knew people with diabetes, with ulcers, with anemia......and all those diseases and others were portrayed on medical shows. When I was young, shows like Dr. Kildare, Dr. Welby and others were popular. Yet never did any of these shows portray UC. I swear I thought I was the only human being on the planet with this disease where the main sympton was bloody diarrhea. I was too embarrassed to talk about it so most of my life I suffered in silence. I did not want to be pitied or mocked or embarrassed .......

Whether or not it is worse than Crohn's I can't say although clinically it seems UC people have more options NOW.

To this day, my friends that have developed diabetes (on set) get more empathy. Maybe my own fault for not wanting to be known for my disease. But people are still pretty ignorant about UC. Emotionally I think both Crohn's and UC take an enormous toll because there is so much ignorance.
But between the two, I don't know which is worse. I still only know people here with either of these diseases.