Hi kayla.amoroso.
Thanks for your question.
Your diagnosis is very simple.You had pain abdomen with
white blood cell count increase and
CT SCAN showed thickening in illeum.It is probably a case on ilial or intestinal
tuberculosis.There are other rare possibilities too-it can be a crohns
colitis,malignancy involving ileum,volvulus or just infection of ileum but this causes are very rare.
But i am thinking why you have pain.Probably this causes sub
acute intestinal obstruction so you have pain.
So continue taking antibiotics,taking a laxative as you need regular stool pass,take plenty of water with salt as in this cases chance of dyselectrolytimeia is high.Please do a straight xray abdomen to see any evidence of obstruction or perforation.
If your pain subsided,passed stool,urine,become stable then you can leave in your house otherwise best to keep yourself admitted in any hospital/nursing home as in your cases sudden intestinal obstruction can occur and that is a dreadful complication.
Consult gastrosurgeon on Friday and follow his advise.
Best wishes,
Dr Sourav Ganguly