Crohn's disease

Gregor (38): “I wish I had a normal everyday life”

Gregor Herzog from Vienna suffers from Crohn's disease.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/F. Herzog)

Frequent diarrhea and severe abdominal pain plagued Gregor Herzog from Vienna. Eleven years ago, he was finally diagnosed with Crohn's disease. How this chronic bowel disease affects the now 38-year-old's professional and private life and which therapy has helped him.

It all started in December 2013: "I developed diarrhea and went to see my GP, who prescribed charcoal tablets," explains Gregor Herzog. For about a month, he was repeatedly plagued by "diarrhea", even though he was careful with his food intake and took constipation tablets. At the time, he had no idea that this was Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. But the symptoms got worse and worse ...