I have a friend whoes teenage son has Crohn's.  He was a very sick young man until he was diagnosed late last year.  He is on some medication but his mum has radicaly changed his diet and this seems to be helping a lot.  He is a close friend of my 17 yr. old son so I have made sure to find out what he can and cann't eat.  Mostly he is off all grains and sugar (except for honey).  He can eat all kinds of fruit and vegitables (not potatoes), dairy products and meat.  I will see if I can find out more from my friend.

Hey hun!! Firstly my heart goes out to you. I'm under investigation for Crohn's disease atm and was wondering if you could private message me with your symptoms and how you were diagnosed? I've been too scared so far to go for the colonoscopy so the best diagnosis they could come up with my problem so far is irritable bowel syndrome. I am scared to try for a 2nd baby before I have the proper diagnosis but I just don't want to hear that I have Crohn's - not that IBS is that fun either :o(

Love Samantha xox

Hello hope you are feeling ok. Was just looking things up on the net and typed in (Crohns support group) one I found which may help was (crohns, disease and stress. com). I will talk to the member of my family again who has crohns for some more info. That site I mentioned people communicate to each other how they are copeing. By the way welcome to minti hope its helping it has defentely helped me speak to you soon.

hey there my mum has crohns and has had it for bout13 or so years and at first she found it very hard because all 5 of us kids where at home still and they kept muckin around with her medication, they put her on prendazone which stuff her around alot she tripled her weight grew a moustache and other faceial hair and many many other awefull symptoms

she soon after that decided to deal with it without medication as everything they put her on made even more things worse but she just is now careful about what she eats(ie. not grain bread or hot/chili foods) she also can eat too much in one sittin or her tummy plays up and she will b in the loo for like an hour

its really hard 2 see mum go through it but she copes well

but if you want to ask me anything and i can ask her for you

xoxo jade

I do know someone on here living with it but I will PM her and ask her if she wants to reply to your message. If you're sticking around minti for a while my friend also is living with it and has found a healthy balance, I can phone him and ask him what worked for him and then send you a PM.

I havent experienced it but my aunt has it an a friend of mine has it. It is really hard to live with this illness...There would have to be some support in SA. I will ask my aunt wen she comes back from europe on wednesday!

Hold in there ill do my best to get back to you soon.