Hi everybody. I just thought I’d come here and share the last couple of years with you. 2 1/2 years ago I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, and the colonoscopy I had at the time was incomplete, So while there were significant ulcers and inflammation and bleeding in the descending colon, near the ileum was not viewed. After taking suppositories for two months and having a sigmoidoscopy, the information in the sigmoid was clear (2 1/2 years ago) And July of last year I had another colonoscopy which showed severe inflammation in the caecum area. And 20 cm inflammation in the sigmoid. My doctor put me on steroids and Pentasa four times a day. I was so upset about
being on prednisone that I adjusted my already pretty healthy diet, following the IBD AID about
80%. I actually didn’t hear until two days ago that my doctor considered my symptoms to indicate severe Crohn’s disease last July. We haven’t had a lot of opportunity to communicate with each other. In November my GI wanted me to go on Biologics and I was prepared this week to start a remicade biosimilar. My calprotectin levels were only 100 in October. My doctor thought that they were on the low side because I just got off prednisone and that they would go up, I asked if we could just wait three months to see if the levels go down. In February they did go down to 64, I didn’t really know if that was a significant drop or not and I had an appointment with her 2 days ago and she said that this is significant so no biologics for me at this time
. I don’t know if it’s the medication or the diet that’s helping me but I’m being extremely strict now for the next three months with my diet so that I can see if they go down further in June. I’m so relieved. I didn’t mention that I have not had bloating and pain since before august 2019, And I have not had diarrhoea since Christmas