What is ulcerative colitis? Everything you need to know as Louise Thompson suffers ‘hell’
06/30/2022Louise Thompson has always been open aboutbattling with post traumatic stress disorderafter she spent five weeks in intensive care due to having complications whilst giving birth.
TheMade in Chelseastar, 32, and her fiancé Ryan Libbey, 31, welcomed their son Leo-Hunter in December 2021, however due to complications, Louise was left in intensive care for five weeks.
She recently spoke about her PTSD following the birth and said when she’s in “those moments” she wants to “die in a big way”. Just days after this admission, Louise took to Instagram to share an update and let fans know about her ulcerative colitis diagnosis.
She wrote on her Instagram story: “Has anyone with ulcerative colitis or crohn’s experienced worsening symptoms with mental health medication.
“What worked for you? I never had to medicate at all before all of this hell”.
Ulcerative colitis is an “inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and ulcers in your digestive tract,” says health websiteMayo Clinic.
The disease affects the innermost lining of your large intestine and rectum and symptoms usually develop over time rather than suddenly.
The experts add: “Ulcerative colitis can be debilitating and can sometimes lead to life-threatening complications. While it has no known cure, treatment can greatly reduce signs and symptoms of the disease and bring about long-term remission.”
The symptoms of the illness are: “Diarrhoea, abdominal pain and cramping, rectal pain or bleeding, urgency to defecate or an inability to defecate despite urgency, weight lose, fatigue and fever.”
Louise mentioned Crohn’s disease which is also a type of inflammatory bowel disease that “causes inflammation of your digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe diarrhoea, fatigue, weight loss and malnutrition”.
Louise’s admission comes as she told fans that she had a “good day yesterday followed by a bad day today.”
She explained: “When I spoke to my psychiatrist she told me to make sure that any physical health doctors I see take my concerns seriously.
“I don't want to be just labelled as ‘mentally unwell’ – I feel that I'm often overlooked now.”
The mum of one continued that she had some blood tests back which were “incredibly triggering”.
“Anyway, I just got some recent blood test results back that I had to pay for privately and my iron and haemoglobin are really low which is incredible triggering.
“To be honest quite a few of them are either too high or too low which I find incredibly triggering too.
“Pre my traumatic experience and spending all that time hospital I was super healthy working out 4 times a week and living a good life.
“Now I can hardly climb a set of stairs without feeling exhausted. I get the worst agonising pain too.”
She ended by saying: “I just want someone to fix me.”
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