Joint pain/aches and Crohns.

No, you should not take any NSAID like advil or ibuprofen or naproxen.

Crohn's disease often comes with joint pain. I ended suffering for years with joint pain as my primary complaint. I finally saw a rheumatologist, who worked with my GI to get me on a good treatment plan that covers both bowel inflammation and joint pain. Sulfazine is the med I take now, and that has helped a lot. Going gluten free has also helped.

Thank you all for the advice. I took cvs brand Tylenol arthritis (all Tylenol is recalled right now FYI) and its worked wonders on my body aches. Essentially pain free. Continue to be worried about my ankle though n that it might be cellulitis. Doctor supposed to put me on flagyl n cipro next week so hopefully that nips it if it is

Try eliminating sugars / Doing so saved my joints

I'm in my 30's and I've had moderate / sever ocerative colitis for 9 years and about 2 or 3 years after my first symptoms I started experiencing severe joint pain that would migrate from joint to joint (knees, knuckles, shoulders, toes, ankles, inner hip/groin, as well as in my back and chest muscles. The pain would last severely in one joint/area for a 1-4 days often being debilitating (sleepless nights, extreme pain, inability to use joint) then would travel to another joint usually then travel to the other or go dormant for a time then flair up again.

After almost giving up on trying to fix the problem I saw a pattern (a few days after gorging on Halloween candy) that the flairs were directly associated with my consumption of processed sugars. It was amazing after cutting candy, soda, and high fructose corn syrup and other processed sugars out of my diet for about a month the joint pain stopped completely.

I found can eat natural sugars no problem such as in fruit and juice and have no problem. Once again the pain literally stopped after about a month and hasn't returned for now years.

However, if I stray and start to each too much processed sugars I can feel it creeping in once in full force for a time after straying from my strict no sugar rule). Those little reminders and one large reminder have allowed me to stay "bad" sugar free and pain free. Before when I had the pain I used high and low doses of prednizone but even prednizone didn't completely help me. It wasn't until I stopped the sugar and stayed off it that I found relief. Also, I've been able to stay predizone free as well). Although my colitis is still an issue (mostly managed by Asocal / Asathiaprine) the joint pain is past.

I hope this helps and I highly recommend you try this as it saved me so much pain. On a related note I also try to stay away from too much fake sugars (diet drinks, etc) as I have found that these have caused me some trouble although not nearly as much as processed sugars.

Good luck!!!

Some Crohn's patients can take NSAIDs but it's ideally not recommended as it can cause a flare. Most of my doctors were not aware of its potential to cause flaring though, excepting the GIs. I can get by taking lower doses of ibuprofen, but I have to be careful and I can't take enough to be considered an arthritis dose.