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I don't know why this is downvoted. I also have Crohn's and it is word-for-word true. Sudden death of Crohn's is something I cannot imagine and I've been tryin

I don't know why this is downvoted. I also have Crohn's and it is word-for-word true. Sudden death of Crohn's is something I cannot imagine and I've been trying for good 5 minutes now.

giarc 5y ago
I'm cherry picking a stat from this article, but it doesn't appear totally out of the realm of possibility to die from Crohns. It is well accepted that Crohn's disease is associated with a small but real risk of death. Population based reports from Sweden,1,2 Denmark,3 and Italy4 indicate that Crohn's disease patients have a higher mortality rate than expected, although at least one notable exception from the UK demonstrated survival similar to the general population (table 1 1). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1856159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1856159/
idontknowifican 5y ago
IBS person here, my understanding is chrons takes years, and is very medically mature. odd
- samhw 5y ago
  > chrons takes years, and is very medically mature Sorry, what does that actually mean?
  - bckr 5y ago
    There are really good treatments for it these days. People live with it relatively comfortably when they can get the right medicine, while in the past they would have died early painful deaths.
joshuahedlund 5y ago
Maybe it's downvoted for the "guarantee he's alive" - Even if sudden death from Crohn's is unlikely, would suicide also be plausible, if the stolen funds were starting to catch up with him?
- s5300 5y ago
  Perhaps I should’ve said “he definitely didn’t die of Crohns somewhere in India” - yeah, I admit he could be dead by this point for various other reasons. As for some other comments - until you’re very old, I think the statistics are that you’re much more likely to die from a surgery that tries to better manage your Crohns than of anything Crohns can cause. Sometimes the surgeries can go very badly very quickly for no rhyme or reason & lead to bowel rupture which is very not good. Not that this is common - just more common than “dying” of Crohns.
  - pcthrowaway 5y ago
    I've seen it stated that he died of "complications from Crohn's disease" which in my mind would include a surgery gone wrong. I had an unexpected surgery which required anesthesia during a trip abroad myself, it's likely the chances of death from the surgery or event itself were somewhere in the 0.1-1% range. I'm otherwise young-ish and healthy, and didn't know I had Crohn's before this happened, though I've had intermittent digestive issues that I thought "weren't a big deal" through most of my adulthood. I can only imagine someone who already knew they had Crohn's had it worse than myself.
  - lambic 5y ago
    Severity of Crohn's isn't age related, Crohn's is actually a young person disease. I was diagnosed in my 40s and that was considered a late diagnosis. Also, the article says he died from complications from Crohn's.
lambic 5y ago
My Crohn's is under control and has always been fairly mild, but having spent a week in hospital when it was at its worst I can see how this could happen, I lost enough blood for the doctors to be very concerned. A severe flare can definitely be life threatening.
ILMostro7 5y ago
Lol maybe because he was over 9000 percent sure...
tasha0663 5y ago
I imagine it's incredibly painful and involves toxic megacolon. Took me about 15 seconds the first time I saw that the cause of death was Crohn's.
kingkawn 5y ago
Does seem plausible that underlying crohn’s mixed with a vicious antibiotic resistant gut infection could be a killer combo

I don't know why this is downvoted. I also have Crohn's and it is word-for-word true. Sudden death of Crohn's is something I cannot imagine and I've been trying for good 5 minutes now.

giarc 5y ago

I'm cherry picking a stat from this article, but it doesn't appear totally out of the realm of possibility to die from Crohns. It is well accepted that Crohn's disease is associated with a small but real risk of death. Population based reports from Sweden,1,2 Denmark,3 and Italy4 indicate that Crohn's disease patients have a higher mortality rate than expected, although at least one notable exception from the UK demonstrated survival similar to the general population (table 1 1). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1856159/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1856159/

idontknowifican 5y ago

IBS person here, my understanding is chrons takes years, and is very medically mature. odd

samhw 5y ago
> chrons takes years, and is very medically mature Sorry, what does that actually mean?
- bckr 5y ago
  There are really good treatments for it these days. People live with it relatively comfortably when they can get the right medicine, while in the past they would have died early painful deaths.

joshuahedlund 5y ago

Maybe it's downvoted for the "guarantee he's alive" - Even if sudden death from Crohn's is unlikely, would suicide also be plausible, if the stolen funds were starting to catch up with him?

s5300 5y ago
Perhaps I should’ve said “he definitely didn’t die of Crohns somewhere in India” - yeah, I admit he could be dead by this point for various other reasons. As for some other comments - until you’re very old, I think the statistics are that you’re much more likely to die from a surgery that tries to better manage your Crohns than of anything Crohns can cause. Sometimes the surgeries can go very badly very quickly for no rhyme or reason & lead to bowel rupture which is very not good. Not that this is common - just more common than “dying” of Crohns.
- pcthrowaway 5y ago
  I've seen it stated that he died of "complications from Crohn's disease" which in my mind would include a surgery gone wrong. I had an unexpected surgery which required anesthesia during a trip abroad myself, it's likely the chances of death from the surgery or event itself were somewhere in the 0.1-1% range. I'm otherwise young-ish and healthy, and didn't know I had Crohn's before this happened, though I've had intermittent digestive issues that I thought "weren't a big deal" through most of my adulthood. I can only imagine someone who already knew they had Crohn's had it worse than myself.
- lambic 5y ago
  Severity of Crohn's isn't age related, Crohn's is actually a young person disease. I was diagnosed in my 40s and that was considered a late diagnosis. Also, the article says he died from complications from Crohn's.

lambic 5y ago

My Crohn's is under control and has always been fairly mild, but having spent a week in hospital when it was at its worst I can see how this could happen, I lost enough blood for the doctors to be very concerned. A severe flare can definitely be life threatening.

ILMostro7 5y ago

Lol maybe because he was over 9000 percent sure...

tasha0663 5y ago

I imagine it's incredibly painful and involves toxic megacolon. Took me about 15 seconds the first time I saw that the cause of death was Crohn's.

kingkawn 5y ago

Does seem plausible that underlying crohn’s mixed with a vicious antibiotic resistant gut infection could be a killer combo