Sembrava appendicite ma era Crohn. / It looked like appendicitis but it was Crohn's.
Sembrava appendicite ma era Crohn. / It looked like appendicitis but it was Crohn's.
Segnalato dal Dott.Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa
Ho trentanove anni, e da circa metà convivo con la colite ulcerosa. Una coinquilina scomoda, ingombrante, cui cerco di non darla vinta, anche se è impossibile da ignorare.”
Così, dopo l’operazione mi hanno detto che in realtà l’appendice era sana ed era stata lasciata al suo posto, ma qualcosa comunque non andava. Quei sintomi che avevo avuto, e soprattutto quello che avevano visto i medici sotto i ferri, parlavano chiaro: avevo una malattia cronica infiammatoria a carico dell’intestino. Crohn, mi dissero. E se per l’appendicite può bastare un’operazione, lo stesso non si può dire quando hai una MICI, con la quale volente o nolente devi convivere per il resto della tua vita.
ENGLISH
My history as a patient with Crohn's disease is perhaps a bit anomalous compared to that of many people. In fact, I didn't know I was sick until I ended up in the operating room, but for quite another, or so it seemed. In 2004, when Crohn was not talked about as much as today, one Saturday morning I suddenly had a high fever, pain in the right side of the abdomen, and I underwent emergency surgery for appendicitis. I would only discover later that the disease often presents itself in this way, but apart from a constipation that I had always carried around I didn't seem to have other problems in the intestine. In short, a very different situation compared to the diarrhea that many patients experience as a sign of the disease.
I'm thirty-nine, and I've been living with ulcerative colitis for about half. An uncomfortable, bulky roommate, whom I try not to win, even if it is impossible to ignore. "
So, after the operation they told me that in reality the appendix was healthy and had been left in its place, but something was wrong anyway. Those symptoms I had had, and above all what the doctors had seen under the knife, were clear: I had a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the intestine. Crohn, they told me. And if an operation is enough for appendicitis, the same cannot be said when you have IBD, with which you like it or not you have to live with for the rest of your life.
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