Ahhhh is I scream the world is over, well not really but my old world is over..

Ahhhh is I scream the world is over,  well not really but my old world is over..

Hi, if you're reading this you're reading my first blog post.  You might notice I will be all over the place in this blog.  I will just say random stuff that make some sense,  others no sense.  so as the title says:  The world is over well not really but my old world is over.

Lets start from about 7 months ago.
7 months ago I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease.  If you don't know what Crohn's disease is, it's a Inflamed Bowel Disease or IBD for short.  There is no cure for it, but treatments are available. But I'm not here to talk about what Crohn's Disease is, I'm here to talk about my part, or at least this blog is here to say that. Here is the beginning of the story of my Crohn's diagnosis, I hope you enjoy.

I used to be a normal person or what a normal person is supposed to be, with nothing to worry about except for the next day and getting up for work. Around the start of my 20's this stomach pain started. The pain is hard to describe, the best way to put it is almost like a pinching and stabbing pain on the right side of my gut near my appendix.  What really sucks is that I can't pinpoint the age that the pain started. But one day I had pain in my stomach that could drop a Rhino to its knees and me being human I dropped like a leaf from a tree with a rock attached to it.  The pain was so bad it stopped me from getting up right away. Thankfully that was the only time the pain was that bad and the pain went away quickly so I thought really nothing of it at that time. Thinking about it now I really shouldn't have ignored that pain, what I should have done was gone to my doctors right away. The next time this pain surfaced I thought nothing to worry about, it was half as bad as the first time but the big difference was the pain was hanging around much longer, thankfully the pain went away for a couple months. By this time I was smoking pot on a regular basis, which to this day I still attribute to my mild Crohn's Disease. I was also a cigarette smoker at the time about half a pack a day as well as a horrible diet at the time, I almost knew the people at McDonald's by name.  I know how bad it was for me and the damage I could have been doing to myself, but I didn't really worry about it back then. Trust me I heard it every time from my Mom. The fast food diet was also one of the reasons that I thought I had pain.


Lets jump to my early to mid 20's now.  This pain is now coming back but not on regular bases but instead of being by my appendix, the pain was showing up in different areas.  Sometimes the pain was right near my appendix, and other times the pain was other places around my G.I tract. Coincidentally I  have a lot of small lumps on my body with some on my stomach that are hard and hurt.  I was attributed the bumps to what was causing the pain.  Those little spongy nodules will show up in this blog more.  So I go get the lumps checked out my doctor, Dr. G. she said let's get the pain checked out and see where the pain is coming from. The tests started by getting some ultrasounds around my gut. Many of ultrasounds later and nothing can be found, tho the ultrasounds saw the small little nodules in/on my guts and said it was nothing. Relieved at the time my thoughts were: phew dodged a bullet there.  By this time I am now smoking a lot more pot and with the increase of pot my cigarettes have increased by almost half a pack a day.  My eating habits haven't changed either,  if anything they have got worse.


And with that I will conclude this part and give you the horrible.....  To Be Continued

Thanks for reading
Shane