I have had chronic diarrhea for 4 months and my doctors have failed to help, because of limited medical coverage.

One of the symptoms of Crohn’s disease is skin changes. I have looked on the web but i cant find anything. Does anyone with this or knows how the skin looks?

I have massive pain, bleeding, diarrhea, every time go to the bathroom there is cramps.I go about 3 times a week sometimes its more sometimes less. About once a month i get a rlly bad one where it last for hours and the pain is massive. Sometimes the pain is so bad i just wanna die.
I also have dark ashy spots on my hands toes and ankles. [no its not cause i need lotion] People say it looks like i been in a fight. Its kinda brown and its thick skin. It wont go away with anything the doctors have no idea what it is.

I had a colonoscopy about a year ago. He said i had a Spastic colon. A lot of the symptoms are the same as mine but idk something does not add up. My husband has IBS and his is nothing like mine. I just dont think i have IBS i think it issomethingg else. I do have Crohn’s in my family which makes me lean towards that. Any chance my GI doctor got it wrong? Even though i had colonoscopy? I have been dealing with the pain for 7 years. Sometimes idon’tt think i can do it anymore. Its like i am going threw labor once a month with these cramps!

Srry so long….Heres my questions again….Does anyone with this or knows how the skin looks? …Any chance my GI doctor got it wrong? Even though i had colonoscopy?

I am breastfeeding my 1 year old baby who is very under weight due reasons unknown to me and the doctors. I am diagnosed with spastic colon, can it affect his health? Is there any possibility that he can inherit the disease from me anytime in life?

Im 21 yrs old and for the past 5 years, usually during exams or when im stressed, i experience really sever stomach aches which always last exactly a week. The pains do not feel like cramps they feel more like something is spasming in my stomach and even the strongest pain killers dont really help. I cant sleep at night when i get these pains. I’ve been to doctors and specialists and they cant find anything wrong so they say it must be spastic colon but i have never heard of someone having such a severe case. Does anyone else experience this?

I think what I have is Irritable Bowel Syndrome but I have been to several doctors and there guess is as good as mine. I stopped eating in the morning and don’t eat until 1pm or later and I have not had any problems with my stomach after that! I know not eating isn’t the best thing but it’s better than having an accident or killer stomach pains. Anyone else have this, not being able to eat in the morning?

I’ve had a severe migraine in the frontal lobe for almost 2 weeks along with numbness in the right arm, feeling nausous, and abdominal pain. What does that mean? Can anyone find out? My doctors tell me it’s just nerves but I know it’s something else.

I have chronic back pain and ibs constipation, i heard that doctors are prescribing cymbalta before i go to the doctor i want to make sure of the side effects. i know that doctors wont tell you about it.
cymbalt is a antidepresant but i have friends that they are taking cymbalta for back pain,ibs, migraine and other pain kind of pain. because it relaxes the muscles it helps with the pain also.

Hi! We do not have health insurance right now and my daughter has severe abdominal attacks. For two years, we have wasted a lot of time and money on doctor visits that have not helped my daughter.

Recently she had another abdominal attack, related to her cycle. She gets them so bad that she ends up doubling over in pain, and often gets headaches and throws up. What’s worse is that she’s extremely allergic to ibuprofen and/or Motrin, and Pamprin. She’s also allergic to citric acid and most fragrances.

Another issue that we recently discovered is that when she gets these pains, her abdomen gets really cold while the other parts of her body is warmer, or sometimes it’s the opposite situation (abdomen extremely warm, but the rest of the body is cold).

She’s been to several doctors and has even had an ultrasound and gall bladder study. All show nothing is wrong. The attacks last up to 2 to 4 hours and then afterwards she feels fine. Any suggestions?

Bottom line is, I suffer from a Bowel illness. The doctors are very tentatively giving it the title of "Severe IBS". It started 5 years ago, diagnosed with IBS, was never really a major issue besides the fact I had to watch what I ate. Fine. Over the years it’s gotten progressively worse. I’ve played doctors favourite guinea pig for two years now with no signs of slowing down. Good news is my latest Endoscopy’s (one down the throat, one through the bowels) show no signs of Crohn’s disease or colitis. Which is a bitter sweet pill to swallow because I’m happy It’s not either of those two, but would have been satisfied if we could just put a name to it.

Regardless, I’ve tried SO MANY Different diets by doctor has told me to stop for the time being, eat normal food, live normal for a while until he can see me again. Fair enough.. basically my daily routine is I wake up at about 1 PM feeling like someone beat the crap out of me while I slept, I don’t eat breakfast, Don’t eat lunch, I eat a bit of dinner, I take a tablespoon of soluable fibre twice a day, I drink a protein shake every day because My weight tends to drop during my worst times. Then I go to bed. My schedule is completely out of wack, I never know when I’ll be awake or when I’ll be sleeping. It’s bad in the mornings, it’s best late afternoon/evening and it’s bad again during the night. It’s not specific things, it’s just food in general, which is why I don’t eat a lot to begin with.

To top it all off.. I’m 16, Lost a whole semester of school to it last year, had to be homeschooled just to achieve 50′s (i’m usually an 80+ Average). I went back to school this year but again, haven’t been to school in three weeks for the simple fact that I go to school, but end up having to come home sometimes before first period is even over. It’s pathetic. I can’t even go to school. Not to mention I also had to give up my job for it.

and the best my specialist has done in recent months is sent me to a god damned shrink to "manage stress". And all THAT Did, was stress me out. I manage stress fine, I don’t know how he managed to find a stress shrink as a solution to a bowel disorder but i did what i had to do, and guess what, big suprise here, it didn’t do anything for me.

What else can I do to keep myself up? My spirits at least..

Remember, I’m 5 years into this, unless you have a really experienced suggestion, chances are I’ve tried it, but I appreciate all tips.

People look at me and go "Don’t let it consume you, you should go to school and live a normal life" I’m dead serious when I say it’s physically impossible to attend class in the condition i’m in. I’m not letting it consume me, I really don’t have a say in what it does.

How the hell do I control it, or what can I do to help my body feel normal.

I live my life feeling like crap all the time. The physical exhaustion starts to get to you, so does the depression and many other feelings.

This isn’t just a one dimensional illness, anyone who has suffered from anything remotely close to what I am, knows what I’m talking about.

Anyways, any input is appreciated, thank you.

Although my cat will be going to the doctor, I was just wondering if anyone maybe had any answers as to why my cat has been having breathing and bowel problems.He is going to be 2 yrs old and He has started to poop with out even knowing it, normally it isn’t much but he does it in his sleep while he is playing and just relaxing, he has also started to breathe strangely, it almost seems like asthma, oh, and he even vomits, of course that could just be a normal hairball thing, but that is honestly not what it seems like, Im wondering if maybe he has Inflammatory Bowel Disorder or something else. I am also concerned that it may be intestinal because he sometime gets grumpy if you touch his belly.. but he is picky so it may be fine.
Any one have any ideas what could be wrong with him??
ALSO, I got him fixed recently, and when I brought him home, something went wrong and the doctors ‘fixed’ it and said it was fine, that it is rare, but happens, it looked like a piece of his insides came out through the incision, but they didn’t explain it to me, it kind of seems like this all started after the surgery. Could that be the problem??