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For the last 2 months I have been sick all the time. It was annoying, but at least I was at home. Now I am lying down on a hospital bed typing on a laptop the hospi-people were nice enoough to lend me.
Tuesday morning I went to see a specialist and he (once again) put his finger in my ass and told me what he thought. On the fourth of july, I had been diagnosed with a prostatite. They gave me pills to take for 30 days that should have fixed it. As I took them it was obvious they didn't do anything as I was still sick, but I waited. Now this specialist tells me that I never had a prostatite, and that I took those pills that made me sick and limited what I could eat for nothing. He also told me to go to a hospital the next morning to get an echography.
Wednesday morning, I arrive at the hospital, they put cream over my stomach and start probing me. I see grave looks on their faces. Later they take my aside and tell me my intestines seem to be all swollen and inflamed and tangled up. They set me up a meeting with specialists for this.
Thirty minutes later, I am sitting in the office of a gastroantologue (don't know the name in english) and answering the same questions I have been asked about thirty times so far. The doctor who was there (a girl) then also decided to put her finger up my ass. I guess doctors really like doing that, they never seem to grow tired of it.
After that, she tells me to wait while she goes and gets her superior, (turns out she is only an apprentice or something) and I wait about 15 minutes. The two of them come back. The real doctor starts telling me I have a very sick intestine and that they will have to keep me for several days.
I stopped hearing what she said after that. Staying several days at the hospital. Pure horror. I had been here one whole day before, (when they said I had the disease that I didn't actually have -_-) and I consider that day the worst of my life to date. At the idea that I would have to stay here for several days, with no breaks, having finger after finger jammed in my ass, in a blue robe, carrying around a machine putting juice in my arm, I was totally frozen.
And so the fun began. They brought me to my room, which might be the only good thing in this whole ordeal. It is a quiet period at the hospital at the moment so I get my own room with my very own bathroom :O
Nurses then started appearing and doing their things, putting tubes in my arms, taking blood, giving me a little hat to piss in so I could measure how much I flow, etc.
Another doctor came eventually and asked me the thirty questions I had been asked thirty times already. Thankfully he didn't put his finger in my ass, however he told me that my rectum would be getting plenty of company in the next few days, in the form of bottles full of anal cleanser, as well as a camera.
Around six o'clock they brought me my first meal. Two brown lumps and a white lump all doused in a liquid a lighter shade of brown. It tasted like shit, I had three bites, (as well as two tea biscuits :D) and put the platter aside. Later during the night a nurse came with two boxes of anal cleanser, and explained to me that they needed to empty my large intestine to see correctly when they send in a camera.
Good news after good news. The bottles had long tubes at the end, which you insert in the bum, and then squeeze on the bottle to fill your rectum with a liquid. You then feel really full and try to keep it in as long as possible before rushing to the bathroom.
I had three of these in all. The next morning was the much awaited colonoscopy. They took me to a place far from my room, and injected me with liquids they said would calm me down and make me feel less pain. I'm very glad they did, because as they were filling my ass with air and inserting a camera I really did NOT feel relaxed, and I WAS feeling alot of ouch. It lasted about 15 minutes, they told me to release as much air as possible, so I constantly farted. Oh, and I got to watch on the screen live as they explored my large intestine. To be honest I don't remember much of the experience, maybe the things they injected in me did do something after all.
The rest of the day was reasonably easy. The doctors came later on and told me they wanted to take yet another test, but not one where anything would be put where I don't want it. I was took to a machine and it took pictures of me or something.
So what is it that is causing me all this  ness? They thing it is chromes (chrones?) disease. They started giving me medicine and anti-biotics through my arm tube. They say though, if it doesn't work or there are complications, they might have to operate me
I've never had an operation before and it's not something that I am looking forwards to if it does happen. Actually, I feel alot better then I did all summer. I don't have cramps that make me walk all bent, and pissing is quite easy, my wanker doesn't even feel like its caught in a mouse trap all the time. Hell, if the doctors weren't constantly reminding me that I'm sick and my intestine is a pile of shit, I'd think im finally starting to get better. But no, they are. And as I return from the bathroom, I just experienced the dreaded dick-fart they told me about. Air came out of my williams while I was peeing, and this means that I have a hole somewhere.
Overall I'm not doing super happy, but owel At least now I have a pc and I can check out team liquid :D
  
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wow lol. all that sounds like well, excuse the pun, a pain in the ass 
hope you get better soon
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get well soon!
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google inflammatory bowel disease
they do not like putting fingers up people's asses
two things that come to mind are crohn's/ulcerative colitis
could be other things like inflammatory colitis/infectious colitis
problem with crohn's disease is that it can affect any area of the gastrointestinal tract, so while surgery may help, it may not necessarily prevent you from having problems in the future. besides im sure they'll give you a good trial of steroids first
good luck
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good luck man get well soon
heres a clown to cheer you up 
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thedeadhaji
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okay, MAKE SURE TO GET SECOND, THRID, and FOURTH opininos on this "surgery" before they actually do it. I'm dead dead dead serious about this. Sometimes doctors will cut patients up just b/c of "protocol" and b/c they need the $. I'm not kidding, that's what doctors at fucking stanford medical school told us.
Go to a hospital associated with a med-school at a large university, and get their opinion on what is up, and whether you really need surgery. Ask them "WHY ARE THEY CUTTING ME" "WILL IT ACTUALLY FIX MY SHIT" "WHAT THE FUCK DO I HAVE" etc.
You need concrete answers before thye do something as serious as opening you up
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Jesus christ. Get better soon.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
On August 25 2007 08:48 FirstProbe wrote:
google inflammatory bowel disease
they do not like putting fingers up people's asses
two things that come to mind are crohn's/ ulcerative colitis
could be other things like inflammatory colitis/infectious colitis
problem with crohn's disease is that it can affect any area of the gastrointestinal tract, so while surgery may help, it may not necessarily prevent you from having problems in the future. good luck
what he said..
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
On August 25 2007 11:36 thedeadhaji wrote:
okay, MAKE SURE TO GET SECOND, THRID, and FOURTH opininos on this "surgery" before they actually do it. I'm dead dead dead serious about this. Sometimes doctors will cut patients up just b/c of "protocol" and b/c they need the $. I'm not kidding, that's what doctors at fucking stanford medical school told us.
Go to a hospital associated with a med-school at a large university, and get their opinion on what is up, and whether you really need surgery. Ask them "WHY ARE THEY CUTTING ME" "WILL IT ACTUALLY FIX MY SHIT" "WHAT THE FUCK DO I HAVE" etc.
You need concrete answers before thye do something as serious as opening you up
and what he said too..
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
And as I return from the bathroom, I just experienced the dreaded dick-fart they told me about. Air came out of my williams while I was peeing, and this means that I have a hole somewhere.
ahh shiiiit.. I did not read your last sentence.. that is bad news man.. no wonder the first doc thought it was prostatitis initially, an honest mistake, don't be too hard on him..
On top of the crohn's disease they said you had.. you have a fistula (an unfortunate complication) - i.e. a duct (tube) made out of infected scar tissue from the inflamed bowel (gut) to the urinary system (bladder); they are a bitch to close up even with surgery and you will in all likelihood end up in surgery.
Sorry for the bad break; just see it is as another experience in life.. and learn* as much as you can about your disease because you will have it for life and the more you know about it the better you will handle it and its possible complications.
(the good news is - that it is hard to get fat with crohn's disease)
*good place to start: http://patients.uptodate.com/topic.asp?file=digestiv/6094
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
omg
DICK FART? shit man
fuck
good luck -_-;;
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On August 25 2007 12:28 Physician wrote:Show nested quote +On August 25 2007 08:48 FirstProbe wrote:
google inflammatory bowel disease
they do not like putting fingers up people's asses
two things that come to mind are crohn's/ ulcerative colitis
could be other things like inflammatory colitis/infectious colitis
problem with crohn's disease is that it can affect any area of the gastrointestinal tract, so while surgery may help, it may not necessarily prevent you from having problems in the future. good luck what he said..
I don't know what he said that could rule out UC... though I didn't really read what he said that carefully.
Infectious colitis is unlikely
And yea, I missed that bit about passing wind through your *****. Thats pretty bad. Like Physician said, if you've got a fistula, that'll probably need repair. Least you're not passing poop through your ***** yet.
Good luck.
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Hope you get well soon!! At least you feel ok enough to type. Make sure to get better fast so we can start playing starcraft again.
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Get well, man. At some point in the future you'll probably look back on all this and make peace with it. Keep focused on that point. If TL.net can provide anything let us know.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
I don't know what he said that could rule out UC...
FirstProbe absolutely nothing even though he didn't say too much about his initial symptoms; there is nothing wrong with you comment at all.
It is just that he mentions they told him it was crohn and that he described having an endoscopy.. so I am assuming they did a biopsy and that they are on the ball. I guess that if you play the odds game once you find a fistula you start leaning towards crohn rather than UC because they are far more common in the former, rather than the latter. I just didn't want to confuse Pwntrucci[sR] with too many differential diagnosis since it sounds like he is in capable hands already and that they have nailed a specific diagnosis.
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On August 26 2007 00:54 Physician wrote:
I don't know what he said that could rule out UC...
FirstProbe absolutely nothing even though he didn't say too much about his initial symptoms; there is nothing wrong with you comment at all.
It is just that he mentions they told him it was crohn and that he described having an endoscopy.. so I am assuming they did a biopsy and that they are on the ball. I guess that if you play the odds game once you find a fistula you start leaning towards crohn rather than UC because they are far more common in the former, rather than the latter. I just didn't want to confuse Pwntrucci[sR] with too many differential diagnosis since it sounds like he is in capable hands already and that they have nailed a specific diagnosis.
Thats true, I guess if they've done a colonoscopy, they can usually tell if its Crohns (macroscopically). Was just curious why this isn't UC - though I agree Crohns is the most likely.
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It's not a fun place to have problems. Hopefully the doctors there can fix you. If it makes you feel better I've had a doctor put his finger in my ass too, done the flow meassurement by peeing in the thing and had an ultrasound. Luckily they gave me a much kinder diagnosis.
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I still don't know officially whether I will have surgery, but myself I am quite sure I will. It's too bad but oh well, thanks for the replies.
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Belgium6771 Posts
I am so not looking forward to having my prostate examed when I am older.
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