Whats remission feel like? Will I always be tender?

The gurgling sounds like a stricture (narrowing due to inflammation and/or scar tissue) and the tenderness could indicate active Crohn's. My daughter had no tenderness after a few months of Entocort - but she did have some gurgling, yet the doctor said she could taper of Entocort, anyway. She landed in the hospital.

You are probably not in remission...Entocort hasn't been proven to put anybody in full remission (meaning no symptoms whatsoever plus a colonoscopy to show no signs of Crohn's internally). So it makes sense to try Pentasa or Asacol, or other meds.

After my daughter landed in the hospital, she went back on Entocort and stayed on it for years. It took about five months for her tenderness to go away and seven months for her gurgling to go away. A cat scan done before she landed in the hospital showed she had a stricture, but years later, another cat scan showed the stricture had disappeared. This was thanks to Entocort and diet.

BUT a colonoscopy done last year showed she still had active inflammation - a couple of ulcers in the small intestine. So Entocort had not finished the job - and, given time, the continuing Crohn's inflammation might bring back another stricture.

  

My Crohns is also in my Ileum. I was on Entecort for awhile and my symptoms did not fully go away. I had just enough relief to feel almost normal. (I felt pretty good but with some pain on and off and still tender) Since I was so bad off before the Entecort my doc and I thought we were making progress. One month later the Entocort stopped working. We added Pentasa. No relief. At that point my doc was convinced the meds could not have stoped working so quick after working well for a month and thought I might have an abcess or other complication that was causing such pain. After a CTScan he found out he was right. I was in surgery 3 weeks later. After my resection I went in to real remmision, no inflammation and no indication of crohns and had no pain or tenderness whatsoever for a year. I am flaring very bad again now and have just started Remicade. It is very possible that the Entecort is working just good enough to relief some syptoms but not well enough to put you in remmission. (like MJMOM said) Hope Pentasa works well for you and you obtain real remmission.

By the way my old GI called my lack of sysptoms while on Entecort remmission but my new doc does not reffer to being in remmission untill all inflamation and internal signs of Crohns are gone.

My experience with Entercort is that it helps a lot and makes me feel better but won't actually keep me from having an obstruction if it's going to happen anyway. I think it's a great drug (for me) but I did experience some side effects (more annoying than harmful).