After talking to a lot of people about Crohns it appears that a fair few of them dont get symptoms even when not on meds whether thats to do with lifestyle, diet control or some other factor- I dont...
Hi there, thanks for your reply. I just wanted to understand further on what you said. You said that:- In August 2007, I developed severe mouth ulcers and 103 fever which lasted for weeks. I found I...
Thanks for your responses guys, I didnt know I had anymore as I didnt get an email informing me, I just thought no one was interested;-). The variation is quite dramatic in presentation but either...
Hi Sarita, thanks for your response. I have another question for you. Is it unusual for a patient to have symtoms of Crohns or UC and go into a remission and have almost perfect 'normality' they had...
ADMIN Hi, in response to the subnote on my post I just wanted to let you know that this isnt for a formal submission for research, surveys or clinical trials. It is for my own interest as I see a lot...
Hi Momikins, are these answers you given above when you are on medication. Also, if you did lets say miss medication do your symptoms flare up like they did on your first presentation or could you...
Hey Sarita, thanks for the shout out;-). See what I mean about presentations, they can so easily be mistaken but yours with a travel history should that have been for your elective or whatever has a...
Thanks for your response. Yours and a lot of the presentations that I have read on this forum shout out 'red flags' to me. In them four years from intial presentation to actually getting a diagnosis...
High levels of platelets in the blood is called "thrombocytosis". The reason why your high platelets could have been overlooked was that high levels do not always mean that there is a clinical...
Without performing a colonoscopy -Stress -A mountain out of a molehill -Depression -Hypochondriac -Heart sink patient...
I am a medical student from the UK and am finding it really hard to understand the nature of Crohns and ulcerative colitis. Basically, I have been to a lot of clinics, seen lots of patients and...
I am a medical student from the UK and am finding it really hard to understand the nature of Crohns and ulcerative colitis. Basically, I have been to a lot of clinics, seen lots of patients and there...