Jun 04 2007
1 in 51,460
Yeah I’m a winner! Doh, not really. I think I am one of the 10,000 estimated people in North America with the rare bowel disease known as Ulcerative Colitis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulcerative_colitis.
Confirmation back from the doctor tomorrow but this article mentions arthritic knees and aphthous ulcers if the mouth which I’ve gotten before (on the sides, top, and inner lips). The pictures look almost exactly like what my colon looked like when my doctor showed me. Sounds like I have “Left-sided colitis” because it’s the upper portion of the color and the very bottom portion of the small intestine. It probably started when I was 25 or younger when I thought I had gallstones I probably had pain the colon and it flaring up. They also say that with Ulcerative Colitis you have continuous area of inflammation (which is what the doctor saw) where as Crohn’s is patchy. Also interestingly enough my Aunt Liz has Ulcerative Colitis. So the guess in the medical community that it’s genetic isn’t a bad guess when 2 in 10,0000 estimated people in North America (of 515,600,000 people) are related.