Please Help! ?'s On Crohn's Verses Celiac...

[brantley999]

This is probably a stupid question to most of you but here it goes......Are Celiac and Crohn's disease the same or does one end up as the other. My other half is very hard headed and hates going to the doctor so I am trying to do as much research as I can. Any information will be greatly appreciated for I am lost. I started this about two years ago and it seems I had a better understanding then but now everything seems different. Things were better for a little while and he wouldn’t budge so I gave up. But things are worse than ever now. He really needs to go to the doctor regardless because something is not right. This is a little of what’s going on. First of all he is very thin and has always been that way but eats all the time. I'm talking he eats on the way to work, when he gets there, at break, lunch, break again, coming home, at home, supper and again before bed. When I say break I am talking two corndogs and something else with them. More than most people eat for a meal. Now the rest of this may be to much information and he will beat me when he finds out I’m saying this (LOL) but here it goes…… All of this goes "straight through" him. Meaning he has diarrhea several times a day every day. We do know that dairy products (any) aggravate him the worst. As well as acidy foods like tomatoes and possibly pastas. If he leaves these alone he gets a couple of better days but it is still a couple of loose bm‘s each day. He stays sore in the anal area and bleeds there. He is very "nervous" meaning he is constantly moving something. He is rocking or his foot is moving or he’s bouncing but as soon as he sits down he crashes. Especially in the early afternoons. He eats Imodium like candy and I'm scared that isn't good for him. About two months ago he had a lump on his lower right side about 3 inches by 2 inches that just popped up and was real sore and then went away two days later. He does not have abdominal pain right now but he did have that twice and went to the ER (amazing) with the first time. He was told it was gas but when he followed up with his doctor because it didn’t go away he was told it was an abdominal infection. The second time he wouldn’t go because he said he knew what it was. Now this was major pain not cramping. He has a high pain tolerance. About 5 years ago his kidneys suddenly started failing him and he refused to go to the doctor. His mom and dad said he couldn’t move he hurt so bad but he fought them on taking him in. He finally was so weak they had to literally lift him and take in. When they got there his kidneys were almost completely gone and the doctors were not expecting him to make it because they were so bad then all of a sudden they started working again. They said one minute it was a steady downward spiral and the next they were back to par. That quick. No explanation. The tests and biopsy on him gave no explanation for why they stopped or started working again. They are back to healthy right now. So when he finally says something hurts, its pretty bad. Now we have talked a little to two different people (one with Crohn’s and one with Celiac) and were told by both that all of these things are signs of both including the kidney failure. One called it Crohn’s and the other called it Celiac but neither of us asked if they were the same thing. We didn’t know either of these personally so there is only so much you ask at that time. When I was looking up information, I didn’t see all of these symptoms for either. Could they be things caused by these diseases and not actual symptoms. Does this sound similar to anyone else? Please help.

[KaitiUSA]

Crohns and Celiac are different but they are both digestive disorders. With them not treated they can both lead to serious problems and some of the same symptoms.

One does not usually turn into the other but you can have both.

Crohns mainly effects the large intestine and Celiac mainly effects the small intestine.

Celiac is commonly misdiagnosed for things like IBS.

Getting a complete blood panel for celiac would probably be a good idea because it does sound like it could be Celiac.You should find a GI doctor who knows quite a bit about celiac so he can help and possibly test for Crohns and Celiac so you will know.

If you go to the home page of this site and scroll down there is a link to recommended doctors from other celiacs. You can look under your state too.

[brantley999]

Crohns and Celiac are different but they are both digestive disorders. With them not treated they can both lead to serious problems and some of the same symptoms.

One does not usually turn into the other but you can have both.

Crohns mainly effects the large intestine and Celiac mainly effects the small intestine.

Celiac is commonly misdiagnosed for things like IBS.

Getting a complete blood panel for celiac would probably be a good idea because it does sound like it could be Celiac.You should find a GI doctor who knows quite a bit about celiac so he can help and possibly test for Crohns and Celiac so you will know.

If you go to the home page of this site and scroll down there is a link to recommended doctors from other celiacs. You can look under your state too.

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Thanks for the info!