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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eating and losing weight and losing ability to eat certain foods could also be Crohn's or IBD-which are very treatable! [/quote]

I know what you are saying, but suspect you either aren't in IBD world or you were blessed with an easy to treat form. Yes, treatable for many, but as a parent of a kid with an IBD I can tell you no walk in the park and the treatments can be an ordeal. I think you are being misleading making it sound like if he just gets scopes and a biopsies and finds out he has an IBD, there is an easy treatment and life goes back to normal. Some need other procedures beyond scopes to diagnosis. Then if you do have it, it's not like for many you just pop a pill once and life is better. It can take a while to find the right treatment and there are risks with the ones that tend to be the best. Most non-IBD people or people with easy cases don't understand how complicated it can be and what it is to deal with infusions not working, surgeries, etc.

That said, if he ignores an IBD for too long he could end up with things like needing a large part of his colon removed, not being able to poop the traditional way and far more. Unfortunately, even those who treat it can have this, but left untreated he could definitely be on this road. Perhaps that might help him wake up. It's one thing to think you'd rather die than go through many rounds of chemo. It's another to refuse to treat something that likely won't kill you, but could lead to a lot of complications and surgeries you might have avoided. [/quote]

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