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Hello everyone! My name is Jonathan, I am 27 years old and I have been diagnosed with Chron's since August of 2007. I am currently on Lialda 2 pills twice a day for inflammation and Imuran 3 pills once per day. I just ordered a probiotic called Primal Defense Ultra. I am hoping it gives me a little more relief.

Here is a little history into my family: My mother has IBS, type II diabetes and several other ailments. She is working with only 1 kidney and had a full hysterectomy about 6 to 8 years ago.

My sister is the worst of the family. She has Chron's disease, IBS, a heart conditon and many other problems. Worst of all she currently does not have insurance and is on limited meds.

I have a cousin on my fathers side with Chrons and she has even had surgery to remove part of her intestine.

I believe I have had Chron's far before I was diagnosed and it only raised it's ugly head on a few occasions but nothing to have worried about. Looking back now knowing I have Chron's I realize that certain pains I had growing up must have been from Chron's.

I served 4 years in the Army and one of those in Iraq. During my Army career I did not have any pains. Once I got out of the Army the pains began and I eventually got a colonoscopy and was diagnosed with Chron's. I do believe the exercise i had to do in the Army really helped my Chrons. Now though I have become lazy and don't really exercise.

Another thing I am still discovering are the different foods I can and cannot eat. This past week I have been in alot of pain, missed a day of work and bowling. Been on lortab several times this past week. One thing I am wondering about are good diets and recipes.

If anyone has a good website on recipes and diet plans for Chrons please share them with me, thank you.

Hi and Welcome to Healing Well. You have found the best place. There are alot of wonderful people
here. Here is a good cookbook its called how to cook for Crohn's and Colitis. it has very good
recipies its by Brenda Roscher. i hope this helps you.

Theres quite a few threads on diets somewhere on here.....hopefully someone who isn't as useless with technology as me will come along and find you a link, if not use the search function up top. I just follow a low fat and low fibre diet - as I'm sure you know with your family history Crohn's can really vary patient to patient and it can take a while to figure out the best sort of diet for you.

Totally with ya on the exercise point! I try and keep active to keep my joints strong (prone to bouts of Crohn's arthritis) and my longest remission period was when I worked out at least 4 times a week as well as being on a sports team, just really need to make myself do it more!!

jsr, Easy! Train the gazelle to eat the boxes!

Hi jrs and welcome to the best Crohns forum out there. As for diets we have some folks who do the SCD or Maker's Diet, or some like myself eat a low residue diet all the time. You can google either and get some diet ideas. Good luck!