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Posted 2/27/2015 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
Hey.

I am 20 & have been having symptoms of colitis or crohns for about a month and a bit/


it started after drinking heavily the night before. I found I had an intense left sided pressure just below my ribs.

This continued for a couple days until I passed a stool with a streak of blood on top of it.

this happened a couple of times through out a two week period (and still does on the occasion)

The discomfort continued and I went to the doctors who did blood tests for inflammatory markers which came back "nothing significant" but my fecal procatein came back as 250 which made them refer me to a GI.

the thing is I am worried because my symptoms dont seem to fit in to this and more to something sinister.

I dont have diarrhoea but have had the odd looser stool here and there. I seem to have recently developed pain on my right side also under the ribs the same sort of thing and lower back pressure.

Since I dont have diarrhoea and I am only having one stool a day does this mean its not crohns or colitis?

also since its been a month and a half and now symptoms on the right side are occurring does that mean it would of spread that fast or even something sinister would spread that fast or is it more of an ibs thing with ibd?


my main symptoms at the moment are

left sided abdominal discomfort and sometimes shooting pain just below rib (sometimes on right side also)

fullness feeling at times

mucous covering stool

groin ache sometimes (left side)

slight weight loss - maybe 2 or 3 pounds

any replies would be fantastic as I have been googling things on the internet for the good part of a month now and finally decided to just post something and see what people think.

Im praying thats its not something super super sinister i.e bc or a tumour.
Posted 2/27/2015 7:00 PM (GMT 0)
step away from the google.

Don't drink unless you want more discomfort. Try to eat low residue foods to relieve some of this discomfort while you wait for your GI appointment.

Which is when?
Posted 2/27/2015 7:04 PM (GMT 0)
it is on the 6th of march so pretty soon.

strange thing is I have drunk since twice & the first time made my symptoms slightly worse
since drinking spirits & the next time I just drank wine and it seemed to be fine next day.

the only thing that makes me think is something serious is because of the absence of key symptoms that involve ibd such as diarrhoea and frequent stools?

I have had the urge to go a few times two weeks ago for about a week but then it stopped.
Thanks for getting back to me its just difficult because I have such indefinite symptoms its hard for my mind not to go nuts on me plus I have a history of bad anxiety which I can say I am on top of now.


What foods are low residue btw? also thanks for getting back to me so fast!
Posted 2/27/2015 7:41 PM (GMT 0)
The absence of these things should not increase your worry.

Blood on your stool is a good reason to call the DR, which you did. Your DR did the right thing by testing for inflammation markers, and then referring you to a GI.

You can have mild inflammation that caused the elevated fecal calprotectin, or you could have an elevated test result for no known reason and just a hemmorrhoid that caused the blood spot on your stool. The GI should help you sort this all out.

Low residue foods are those that have little fiber - things like white rice and cooked veggies and fruit.
Posted 2/27/2015 8:20 PM (GMT 0)
Im praying thats its not something super super sinister i.e bc or a tumour.

I wouldn't worry too much as it is rare for people to get this in your age group.

Until they can figure out what it is, I suggest a limited diet as kazbern suggested and stress reduction. Take care of yourself, rest much as you can and avoid the foods that trigger symptoms.

Let us know what it turns out to be.

Best.
Posted 2/27/2015 10:40 PM (GMT 0)
You don't have to have diarrhea to have UC. It also doesn't mean you have something and I like your word "sinister" going on though UC is pretty sinister in my opinion.

The best way to find out what is going on will be a colonoscopy and your GI will be the one to decide if that is needed which by your symptoms he probably will.

Some people with UC can drink some cannot. Some can only drink certain things. Same goes for food. What one person tolerates another will not.

Let us know how your appt goes.
Posted 3/1/2015 4:30 AM (GMT 0)
You can get constipation with the diseases and mixed symptoms of that and diarrhea when there is inflamation going on.
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