Hey

About six months ago I had to have a bowel resection, as my disease went undiagnosed for a while. It ended up that I was very seriously ill. Part of my illness is that my bowel formed a fistula with my bladder. This infected my bladder, which in turn infected my right kidney and blocked it up (doctors told me that if it went on for much longer I could have had kidney failure). I have had a lot of treatment since then but have noticed a few things in the last month. I am not taking any anti-crohns disease medication yet, I am only on an Iron and multivitamin supplement at the moment. But I am having the following symptoms, please tell me if I have something to worry about, or if I am looking too deeply into these:

- Every now and then, my left kidney is twitching (this isn't the one that was fully infected). It feels as if it is beating and pulsating.

- Any time I check my heart rate (at rest) it seems to be quite high. It can be anywhere between 90 - 126 beats per minute.

- Occasionally I am getting headaches. the front of my head hurts.

- Diahorrea all the time (although I understand that there are things I shouldn't be eating now that I can't digest everything lol)

- Breathlessness. This could be even from running up 2 flights of stairs at home, which I have never had any problem with. This breathlessness only lasts for about 10 seconds and then I'm fine.

- My thumb keeps on doing this thing where if I try to hold it still, it moves and twitches itself, and no matter how hard I try to keep it still I can't. (this is probably completely unrelated)

That's all. Please let me know if I'm just havering (as we say in Scotland) and I have nothing to worry about, or otherwise.

Heid