I’ve just come home after another 2 weeks in hospital. To say I’m fed up and drained would be an understatement. I started feeling poorly again about 3 weeks before I was admitted, around the middle of April. I was getting more pain, feeling more fatigued than usual and inside nothing was working quite right. Because I’m on the adalimumab injections I have to go for routine blood tests every few weeks but after my most recent one I got a phone call from the IBD nurse the next day. She said that all my liver results were elevated, that they needed repeating in a few days time and I couldn’t have my next injection until they had reviewed the results as if they stayed high I might need to stop taking them. But it wasn’t a huge surprise as my liver hasn’t been 100% for some time. Unfortunately being on TPN can cause liver disease/damage and a side effect of the adalimumab is also liver damage so I figured the two combined probably wasn’t good news. It was around this time that I was star
Life's not been easy since losing my large bowel in 2009. Technically I didn't lose it in the same way you might lose your phone or your wallet- it was removed in an emergency operation after my bowel perforated due to Ulcerative Collitis. Since then I've been on a journey to get back to normal and still don't quite seem to have made it. This blog is a place to share some of the ups and downs, tears and laughter and hospital horrors that make up my life. Enjoy!