Just trying to find out how many people are living with this diseases and from which country is the most. There is a estimate that there are around 80,000 people living with this in Australia and cause is still unknown and still in research.
By the way I am from Nepal and its been 15 years living in Australia. In my country this diseases doesn't exist and I believe that I may be the first one from my country.
I was first diagonised in 2012 and in 2016 I went for 3 major surgeries and my colon was removed. Since then I feel much better than before but I think living without colon is much harder than before and most of the time I have lot of issues everytime and have to see my doctor every month.
If you are also living with this then please share your experience and also let know which country are you from. May be this will help in some kind of research in IBD.
Oh damn, I'm sorry you have to go through that.
I think that might be down to Crohn's Disease having (partial) immunological causes, kind of like allergies. From purely anecdotal evidence (and I'm not a doctor), immunological issues seem to be more prevalent in immigrants because:
Higher (too high) standards of hygiene in Australia and other Western countries - the prevailing theory being that the lack of pollutants, pathogens, and other legitimate targets for the person's immune system causes the immune system to wrongly classify other particles (allergens and a person's own cells from time to time) as targets for the person's immune system);
Different diets - it's well known that a HUGE portion of ethnically Asian people lack the genes necessary to process lactose properly leading to a much-higher-than-global rates of lactose intolerance among ethnic Asians; in the same way, it's possible that certain people might just be genetically predisposed to having other food intolerances (of which Crohn's is an extreme case) which just do not manifest until repeated and continued exposure to that particular foodstuff (many allergies only manifest after prolonged exposure);
Survivorship/ bias - not directly a cause per se, but a lot of the time, higher rates of any rare/complex/hard-to-diagnose disease in Western countries is just due to a better / cheaper / more widely available health system finding and diagnosing more individuals with these diseases, whereas in their home country the condition might never make it in front of a doctor, might (more easily) be misdiagnosed, etc.
In any case, I have a good friend with Crohn's (though not to the extent of requiring surgery yet - fingers crossed), so good luck and hopefully the medical world can figure something out sooner rather than later.