answer:Hoping for the best for you and your back. Bodies are scary shit. My chronic pain is all in my digestive tract and isn’t bad these days for the most part. It’s hard to remember The Beginning; it was 10 years ago. I do remember it started with blood in the toilet before there was ever an inkling of pain. I remember being super alarmed by that but just assuming it would go away. I let it go on for almost a month I think before I told my mom ‘cuz I was just really, really hoping it was just going to go away. I think I still didn’t have any pain by the time I told my mom. I think the pain probably started after my diagnostic colonoscopy, because obviously when you’re having diarrhea, taking a laxative overdose to prep for a colonoscopy just escalates everything. Definitely had no inkling that I was at the start of a many years long saga, nope. I mean, I was goddamn 14. I was happy when I got my diagnosis because I figured now that the docs knew what was going on they’d give me pills that would make it go away. Hah.