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It happened in the beginning of September 2014 not too long after the school year had just began. I had been having on and off stomach pains for a couple of weeks. I finally decide to go to my mom and tell her I couldn’t take it anymore. We go to emergency and they start running test. That was when I found out I had IBD. The kept me in the hospital for over two weeks. During that time period was one of the hardest times of my life. When I had gotten discharged, I had no idea that at a dramatic change was coming my way. I had been taking ten pills a day. I knew that there was going to be side effects from the steroids,but not as extreme as it had turned out. I was bloated. My face was big and swollen.
When I had returned to school,

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