Introduction:
I am 22 year old female living in Australia, and have had symptoms of UC for about 2 years. After laying on the couch in pain everyday for the last few months, I went to another dr and was diagnosed!
My Story:
Ok, firstly, if any one has any GI symptoms at all, please go to the dr! if they tell you its nothing to worry about, but you don’t feel that way, go to a better dr. I had spent the last 3 months before diagnosis laying in bed and scared to go outside the house for fear of getting a pang of extreme pain and having an accident!
Im sure all others with Ulcerative Colitis don’t mind that we have to have scopes and all other kinds up instruments ‘in there’ but for those that think they may have UC, please dont let this hold you back from talking to the dr about it, its 2 mins of potential awkwardness or bloody poo and pain constantly :(. My family has been awesome, and im not embarrased to keep them up to date! My boyfriend and I are fortunatly very open with other, so it wasnt a problem showing and sharing with him what was going on in the bathroom. It would be stressful to deal with it on your own so please let someone know! As I had such a crappy dr when I first moved to town and he gave me some anti sposmodics and sent me home, by the time I had my scope I had hardly any iron left, and the ulceration was all the way through my colon. That resulted in a week in hospital, an iron transfusion and lots of prednisolone and sulfasalazine (and a liquid diet for a few days, the worst part! haha)
I am most concerned about having children in the future and having a flare and not being able to cope, but I know I can work with my GP and GI to keep this crappy disease under wraps!
So thats my story in 300 words, hope you can relate
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Im sure all others with Ulcerative Colitis don’t mind that we have to have scopes and all other kinds up instruments ‘in there’ but for those that think they may have UC, please dont let this hold you back from talking to the dr about it, its 2 mins of potential awkwardness or bloody poo and pain constantly :(. My family has been awesome, and im not embarrased to keep them up to date! My boyfriend and I are fortunatly very open with other, so it wasnt a problem showing and sharing with him what was going on in the bathroom. It would be stressful to deal with it on your own so please let someone know! As I had such a crappy dr when I first moved to town and he gave me some anti sposmodics and sent me home, by the time I had my scope I had hardly any iron left, and the ulceration was all the way through my colon. That resulted in a week in hospital, an iron transfusion and lots of prednisolone and sulfasalazine (and a liquid diet for a few days, the worst part! haha)
I am most concerned about having children in the future and having a flare and not being able to cope, but I know I can work with my GP and GI to keep this crappy disease under wraps!
So thats my story in 300 words, hope you can relate
x
Where I’d like to be in 1 year:
in the bathroom once a day :)
written by Megan
submitted in the Colitis Venting Area
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I am 22 year old female living in Australia, and have had symptoms of UC for about 2 years. After laying on the couch in pain everyday for the last few months, I went to another dr and was diagnosed!
