While getting a diagnosis of a disease like Crohn’s disease isn’t what most people want, when you’ve been sick or affected by chronic pain, severe pain, getting such a diagnosis is often a relief.
An 18-year-old in the United Kingdom had been experiencing severe abdominal pain for five years before she was finally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Now that she has a diagnosis, doctors can work on trying to get the disease under control.
The disposable “camera pill” is swallowed and then tracked as it goes through the patient’s digestive system. The radio transmitter provides the images of areas in the body …read more

Who’d have thought that my 19-year-old daughter could get knocked flat on her back with a gallstone. but she did. And from the pain I saw she had, I never imagined that gallstones were that painful.
My kids like to bug me, saying that I ignore them or don’t take them seriously when they complain of pain. What they don’t realize is that I take them very seriously and I watch them like a hawk when they complain – they just don’t see it. When my daughter showed me where the pain was, I suspected gallbladder right away, but it’s not …read more