Self-Diagnosing: Is It Crohn’s or Just Bad Gas?

It’s easy to run to the internet, get on a search engine and succumb to minutes and hours of searching up what could possibly be wrong. A bad headache and a simple Google search will have you coming to the conclusion that you possibly have two months to live. A simple search of symptoms and you’re already planning your funeral. Self-diagnosing can be helpful but also dangerous to your mental health. Stop, take a breath and think. Could there possibly be some underlying health issues? Yes, and it’s great that you took the time to look into it but before you write off your abdominal pain as Crohn’s disease, what if it is just gas? RELATED: Day 1: Just Diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease Is it Crohn’s Disease? Crohn’s disease has many symptoms that the average person might face daily. Since the symptoms are normal digestive problems, it’s easy to take something so small as diarrhea and write it off as the disease.  Crohn’s disease is a type of illness that falls in the category of inflammatory bowel disease also known as IBD. When the inflammation occurs, it can affect different parts of one’s gastrointestinal (digestive) tract. This includes the esophagus,...