What does Crohns Disease look like

This blog i will show you what Crohns disease looks like at a normal, microscopic and various levels. Please do not look at this while eating as it may put you off!! (scroll down to see the rest)

As you can see each picture isn't the same. This is because each case of Crohns Disease is completely different this makes it very hard for the specialists, doctors, researchers and nurses to calm the symptoms down.

This picture shows Crohns disease on a microscopic level where a knife like, fissuring ulcer is happening in someones intestinal area.

As you can see this is a CT Scan which every patient who has this done will have to drink a Barium flow which lines the Digestive tract with a chalky paste that lines up the walls and as the arrow points on the right image shows where inflammation is at.

Now your probably thinking why i have added this picture because you can never tell who has Crohns Disease, it doesn't show on the outside, unlike a cold or chickenpox. Someone who you walk by could have Crohns and you wouldn't know what type of pain they are in on a day to day basis.

I have shown you the physical images but this one above shows the struggle that comes when at certain points in life that people with crohns struggle with, and that's being able to handle bad news that one type of medicine isn't working so the doctors put you through many different tests, take various amounts of blood and then hoping for the next drug to work or that its the last time you have to have surgery. Or the worry that people wont accept you because being different.

So, that's it for this post, i probably wont be doing much as myself is going through a bad phase after being off Infliximab for 5 months, I have been getting bouts of pain, which is affecting my daily life (I am seeing my specialist today, so hopefully i am going to get a scan. I will let you know whats happening), I'm not saying I'm stopping this blog, what i am saying is that i need to do whats right. I will try my best to make continuous posts but it depends on if i have the energy to do it. Like i said in my first blog is that you can email me at nathanp123@live.com for any advice or questions which you lovely peeps have been doing.

Just don't forget my fellow crohnies....