Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis Support Group
Crohn's disease is a systemic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of unknown cause, that results in chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. It can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, and can also cause complications outside of the gastrointestinal tract. There is no known medical or surgical cure for Crohn's disease, but there are many medical...
I am still a bit of a medical mystery, but my sibling has crohns and I have lots of weird sympotms,... signs of malabsorption.. (no crohns noted on endoscopy or colonoscopy 2 years ago, though esophagitis and gastritis were present).
Does anyone else seem to have their food move too fast through their system? I am not having any pain with this flare of symptoms, just malabsorption problems.. I will eat and it seems like the second food hits my stomach, i hear the gurgling start and then 2-3 minutes later I'm STARVING.. i mean miserably starving.. when I have these flares I also get orange stools.. .I can even tell my meds aren't absorbing properly during these episodes.. They want me to repeat my scopes and do the pill cam next, but I have so many neuro symptoms and other symptoms, those are taking precedent at the moment.. Thanks for any advice!
Does anyone else seem to have their food move too fast through their system? I am not having any pain with this flare of symptoms, just malabsorption problems.. I will eat and it seems like the second food hits my stomach, i hear the gurgling start and then 2-3 minutes later I'm STARVING.. i mean miserably starving.. when I have these flares I also get orange stools.. .I can even tell my meds aren't absorbing properly during these episodes.. They want me to repeat my scopes and do the pill cam next, but I have so many neuro symptoms and other symptoms, those are taking precedent at the moment.. Thanks for any advice!
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I'm usually not starving after I eat, but since I try to eat in small meals I usually am starving maybe an hour or two after I eat which still isn't really normal. However, sometimes the second I eat something I have to go to the bathroom, it's like my body associates taste buds and flavor with the bathroom! This doesn't really happen in the afternoon or night, but it happens right away in the Morning when eating breakfast because what I ate for dinner is ready to come out in th morning. It's like clock work. I usually have to stop half way through breakfast to go to the bathroom. Hope this helps!
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Oh and I have ulcerative colitis! Not Crohn's! I was tested for both and UC was found.
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Also, I understand what you mean about not getting nutrients. I'm not really in a flare right now, maybe a mini one. But I often wonder when my stomach is bad if I'm getting nutrients.
bny806
Thank you so much!! Yes, i am the same way - in the morning everytime I eat something I have to go to the bathroom (when I'm having a flare).. but come mid afternoon i'm just empty I think.. and then depending on how much I ate, come evening it starts again... I feel better when I don't eat, but then I cant' handle the starving feeling.. though many times the starving feeling is worse right after I eat than if i go a while without eating! It's all so weird.. I feel like I'm going to starve to death!
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Try supplements to get your nutrition. I've been recently looking into that more and taking more vitamins because I'm low lactose, low sugar, gluten free! I feel like my diet is so strict I don't get the proper nutrients. I also don't really eat red meat so I could have low iron. I know we are supposed to have Vitamin D and its good for our immune system since we have an auto immune disease. And vitamin E helps healing so I was thinking of taking that to help heal my digestive Tract. It's all trial and error!!
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Hi! I have UC and I am hungry after I eat. Also sometimes after I start eating I have to run to the bathroom. It could be after 3 bites or half way through my meal. Also I am the worst in the mornings and afternoons. By evening it lets up a little. I hope this helps.
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Yup! Sounds like me too! The mornings are the worst, but once I get everything out of my system I'm usually fine for the rest of the day. I usually wake up an hour and a half before I have to leave in order to give myself plenty of time to empty myself.
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I know someone that sounds like you. She went to many doctors for 5 yrs and they said she was fine. Just last yr she ended up in the hospital and they had to take out her colon because she had UC for 5 yrs and no one caught it. Maybe you should get checked out at a major hospital. I went to the Cleveland Clinic they were great.
bny806
Thank ya'll so much! yes, i'm the same way... I'll have to get up from the table in the middle of a meal since eating - even a bite can stimulate me to have to go to the bathroom - which is just crazy to think only one bite can do that.. .. I have had a colonoscopy and endoscopy (though it was 2 years ago).. it showed gastritis and esohpagitis, but no ulcerations or signs of UC or crohns.. though this was before my sibling was diagnosed with crohns though.. I know i need to get back to the dr for that - I have a bunch of neurological issues that arised the same time this started.. so my GI stuff has taken the back seat, as it calms down at times...
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