What were your earlier symptoms before being diagnosed with Crohns?

I was thin as hell and had like zero appetite. I was nearly 19 kg and I think 4'11 I remember not having energy to even walk and having diarrhea and painful cramps. Went to the GP was told me to go the the A &E they thought I had a ruptured appendix. So was put me in nil by mouth to wait for emergency surgery. Dunno what happened next but they didn't do any operation. They put me in isolation for two weeks they took urine and bloods. Latter I was there for 3 or 4 months, which was hell cos they would do blood tests every two hours. They had this dietician who suggested I eat more which was incredibly painful and it would all come out as liquid so was there just dying until 3 or 4 months latter when they decided to do a colonoscopy. I remember going into the room to do it. The animistic guy wanted to shake my hand, his hand had all these kind of eczema like things on it. I kinda feel like a jerk cos I just looked at his hand and could not lift my hand to shake his cos I had like zero energy. But Yeah it took a long time to get diagnosed and it was painful.

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