Congrats on the recovery man, but what does chrones do to your body? I've heard of it but I was never sure of what it did...

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Glad to hear your recovering well. Get better man!

:flower: get well soon!!

wow that's serious, glad you're making a good recovery!

Thanks for all the comments guys. It's definately a tough decision to make but one that I hope will make the rest of my life a much more enjoyable one.

Kojak, Chrone's disease is a malfunction of the bodies immune system. Basically, when you get sick your body attacks the infected cells to help get you better. Someone with chrone's disease has an over active immune system and when there are no bad cells to attack it starts attacking the good cells. The difference between chrone's disease and ulcerative colitis what I had is that chrone's affects the entire digestive system from the throat, stomach, small and large intestine (colon), colitis is specific to the colon. The drugs given are meant to suppress your immune system so that it stops attacking the body. When the disease is not under control a person can have very frequent bowel movements and extreme urgency for the need of a bathroom. Most times their is blood and loose / watery stool. It is extremely uncomfortable and can be embarassing if you are inflamed and can't get to a bathroom in time.

That is a real brief description of the disease.

So if I had to give it a guess from what I learned in Bio, you had an inflimation in your lower intestin due to over active lymphocytes (sp?). Your t-cells just kept on attacking nothing. It could of been caused by a bacteria that went away or a protine defect caused by a mutation in your DNA. If youve had it all of your life its probibly somethign in your genes.
I'm guessing you had to change your diet to somethign more fatty so the lipids could coat your digestive lining and give you a little bit of protection against the inflimation. Anyway sounds pretty serrious and its good to hear your recovering. Good luck to you man...

sounds about right except for the diet part. There really is no correlation to diet and this disease. Some people will try to make you believe so, but there has never been a proven study to show that. Basically, what may upset my stomach / intestines may be fine for someone else. But it's just because the disease my be in remission or active.

It is definately a defect in my genes somewhere but no one knows what specifically causes this disease it's a mystery at this point.

After seeing my wife suffer with colitis for years, I wouldn't wish it or anything like it on anybody. I hope you make a full recovery and don't have to deal with anything like this again!

glad to hear you're getting well. as others said, good health is always good to hear about.

i remember doing a report in highschool on chrones disease, glad to hear your doing a lot better!

2 of my friends on the FD have chrones, one is goin in for some surgery soon and the other had it a few years ago but just got his gall bladder removed...

good luck dude