if you have something where i know that there s a reason for the bleeding or the symptoms. i treat that, but i hand every patient a referral to a gi doctor. if you re not better see the gi specialist and maybe get a call and ask a lot of people don t talk about it, because i mean, you know, they may think it s a little embarrassing. i m not going to talk to my friend. even though he s a you know, leading physician i m not going to tell him about it because we re talking about you know your bowel movement who wants to have that kind of conversation or they think it will just go away. people are scared. you know, it s a very intimate part of our body. even if you are comfortable talking to your doctor. it s not the topic that you are really at the forefront of your mind. the most important thing like i said earlier, is having that conversation and knowing that you have options. like my mom. my mom will never get a colonoscopy. she s too scared for patients like that, son. the doctor comf
diagnosed with crone s disease. should i worry? unfortunately she s stuck with this disease because it s a chronic disease. as we mentioned about 700,000 so when you talk about crohn s disease, you have to say it s part of the inflammatory bowel disease. you ve herd of crohn s. it s mostly small intestine ileum and the first part of the colon. what we see with crohn s disease is the sgier layer of gi track is infected and they re prone to having weight loss, loss of appetite, bloody stool and die ro diarrhea and it s chronic. make sure that the number of remissions prolongs and the recurrences go less and less. make sure you see your gi doctor all of the time administration make sure you get colonoscopy.
and a half, you re 16 now, just had a 16th birthday. um-hmm. i guess the hard part for me is you weren t there with your friends, you ve had limited contact with your family. you weren t able to go to church, to go to school. um, i guess part of what i think all of us were you ever told by the people why you were there? what did they ever tell you? they didn t tell me anything. they told me that dcf took custody of me, and that my family can t talk to me, and they re saying that they were over-medicalizing, which they were not. they were bringing me to gi, because i had flu symptoms, and my gi doctor with the boston s children s, because he s at tufts, but then he moved to boston children s, and when we went to the emergency room there, and then everything
and a half. you are 16 now and just had a 16th birthday. uh-huh. you know, i guess the hard part for me. you weren t there with your friends and had limited contact with your family and not able to go to church or school, i guess part of what i think all of us, were you ever told why you were there? what did they tell you? they told me they that they d~ cf took custody of me, and that my family can t talk to me and they were saying that they were over medicalizing, which they were not. they were bringing me to gi because i had flu- symptoms, and my gi doctor went to boston children s. and then he move he was at tufts and then went to boston children