My Beautiful Crohn’s Excerpt
Crohn’s disease is a devastating inflammatory bowel disease that can affect any part of the digestive tract. The basic clinical symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea (with or without blood) and weight loss. These three main symptoms can be caused by numerous other ailments and diseases so it is quite difficult to get an accurate diagnosis straight away. It often comes from a painful process of elimination, (pun completely intended.) There is an intricate variety of other ailments that travel hand in hand with Crohn’s Disease. These can include joint pain and arthritis, mouth sores, skin rashes and psoriasis, extreme fatigue, kidney stones, anemia, abscesses and eye inflammation. Bowel obstructions and cancer are the most dangerous occurrences associated with this disease. The precise cause of Crohn’s Disease is unknown. It is believed to be caused by a mixture of environmental, genetic, immune, and bacterial factors. Stress is definitely a trigger. My Crohn’s didn’t b...