Possibly Chrohn's & Arthritis>?

[1tiredchic]

Hello; To make a long story short... I have been having chronic joint/muscle pain for about 4-5 months now that is progressively getting worse..Also I have abdominal pain,distention,diaherea/constipation,mucus in stools,some blood in stools,regurg sometimes,heartburn. Had a colonoscopy 2 yrs ago and had 2 polyps removed(benign) .I had hepatitus in Oct. That is now cleared they say it was due to overuse of aceteminthan.. I recently had blood work and stool culture done..It shows high sed rate, high IgA and Atypical panca (lab works says that 80% with this combination of IGA has Chrohn's..Also have high bun/creatitine levels,low vitamin d and low calcium.  Can anyone offer suggestions on if they think this could be Chrohn's and arthritis? (ps i have an apt for colonoscopy in March with the endoscope) and i need to set up an apt with a rheumo.. Thanks

[1tiredchic]

Thanks for your reply! I hope that I can get an answer soon as it just is getting worse.. My doc is having me test for Lupus and rheumotoid also.. I now the last colonoscopy i had done i had two colon polyps removed 2 yrs ago..i think i remember him saying that he couldn't get to one part of the colon.. Well wish me luck i do not want to have this disease.. But still would like an answer to my problems.  

[SemiColon68]

Liver disease, autoimmune hepatitis, and joint pain ARE symptoms of Crohn's although not every gets that.  The arthritis is called "arthralgia" when it's in the context of Crohn's and there is a medicine that treats that aspect of it.  Hopefully the results of the colonoscopy settle the issue one way or another