My DH was very bad with tummy pain last night and this morning the GP sent us in to get him assessed in hospital. I'm a bit confused because I thought he had Ulcerative Colitis but it seems it is now Crohn's.. I've been googling and found they often cannot be distinguished from one another to start with. He seems to have symptoms of bowel obstruction in the lower right abdomen- it's all bloated but just in that area. I'm hoping he doesn't need surgery as read it isn't a great idea in Crohn's due to the inflammatory nature and recurrance of the condition but I guess he might need it if it is blocked/ stricture.
Does anyone have experience of this please? It's come as a bit of a shock to me tbh, he's been managing it OK for over ten years with methotrexate and sometimes steroids but kind of thought it was under control. Until recently, when I knew it had been flaring up, he'd been to see the consultant and has a small bowel MRI, colonoscopy and bone density scan planned.