Hiya Wallop
This is all very true - ulcerative colitis in my case. B3tans ,when you start to feel that you have a problem with your plumbing, it's all too tempting to wait and see if it will go away. Mine went away, and came back, and went away, and came back...by the time I decided I had to overcome my fear and talk about it,there was a six month waiting list for the camera. No camera, no treatment, even though I was losing massive amounts of weight, even though I couldn't eat or sleep any more. If I'd dealt with my problems sooner, praps there would have been a shorter waiting list, and I wouldn't have needed two hospital admissions to get well again. Any other IBD types out there? (The B3tan Bowels? Sorry, sorry, sorry...)
(magenta may, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 22:48, 1 reply)

Crohns all the way
However due to fucking GP's and the fact that it was flare and go, flare and go wasn't diagnosed properly until I was down to 6 stone, with a section of fused bowel and obstructed.
From my experience, sigmoidoscopy. Not pleasant in the extreme. Steroids do the job until you start bouncing off the walls. Pethidene is your friend.
Oh and for anyone reading this, wallops pain description is on the U / PG side. Imagine the worst food poisoning you have ever had. Loop and splice. Turn all the way up to 11, and you ain't close. I wanted to punch my head through a wall to stop teh hurt.

As for the best story about bowel examinations I have read. Google Blu-tone and picolax. Read and shit yourself laughing
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 21:25, closed)