Appendectomy may play a role in Colitis & Crohn's

[starfire]

Interesting Article (Food Doc again).

Check out point # 6.

http://thefooddoc.blogspot.com/

I had an appendectomy prior to developing MC. Did you?

Love, Shirley

[tex]

Hi Shirley,

Thanks for posting that. I've noticed quite a few articles lately, about Crohn's disease, that mentioned a possible appendix connection, but I had never bothered to look to see exactly why it made a difference. Very interesting. Maybe we should do a poll.

Thanks.

Love,
Tex

[mle_ii]

Never had my appendix out, but I do remember coming accross an article at one point that though the function of the appendix had to do with the bacteria living or not living in our guts. When I get a chance I'll have to try and find this article again. Yep, me again with bacteria. LOL

[Gloria]

I had an appendectomy when I was 12 years old. I was in terrible pain and had to be rushed to the hospital. It had gangrene and was close to rupturing. The doctor said if it had ruptured, I could have died.

The information on the usefulness of probiotics in the article was interesting, too. I've noticed an improvement since I began taking a probiotic two weeks ago. I finally found one that didn't contain any of my intolerances. I'm seeing Norman more frequently now and am

[mle_ii]

FYI Tex added a poll here:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7481

[harvest_table]

I had an appendectomy prior to developing MC. Did you?

Yep, I had an emergency appendectomy and I recall the pain came on so quickly and just kept building so after 3 hours we headed to the hospital- they took me right into surgery immediately. It was close to rupturing.

I was already having major D at that point, muscle and joint pain, fatigue and all that fun stuff and my body was pretty worn out. Interestingly, I was DX with CC about 8 months later.

Thanks for posting this....I've been looking for a connection and wouldn't ya know it- from the Food Doc!



Love,
Joanna

I'll weigh in on the poll.