Hello !

Great question - don't worry about your ignorance ! I know nothing about diabetes or other diseases so no stress !

Crohn's is a disability.

Crohn's isn't like IBS. Crohn's isn't just diarrea and pain and having a funny stomach.

It's infectious flesh tunnels in your organs (Fistulas), internal bleeding, sepsis, increased cancer risk, major surgeries, colostomy bags and shame and fear.

Nobody knows what causes it or what cures it. It's likely an umbrella term for a lot of varied causes that cause the symptoms, chronic and recurrent inflammation in your GI tract and all the complications that come with that.

It's a constant companion that you feel every day and think about thousands of times a day, it's the thing in your life that will always seemingly hold you back and return at the most inopportune times, it's your monkey on your back and there's seemingly no cure.

It feels like an unslayable dragon.