Posted 4/25/2011 4:27 PM (GMT 0)
Hi,
It’s my first time on this forum. First of all, sorry for spelling and grammar mistakes, I am not a native speaker.
My Chrons was diagnosed when I was 15, and now I am 31, so I have it for more than 15 years. The first years were the worst which ended up with small bowel resection in 2001. After that I developed a perianal fistula. I was put on Imuran (50mg) which worked extremely well for about 7 years (for both my intestines and fistula). I consider myself lucky for enjoying a long and stabile remission thanks to Imuran.
But in 2009 , it seem to loose its magic. In fact, a staid in remission (no inflammation in my intestines and no other issues), but my fistula started to give me some serious trouble. It was infected every other month and eventually I started developing abscess (no need to write about horrible pain that go with that). After the first abscess I was examined by colorectal surgeon who drained it and put a rubberband draining seton in the fistula tract. Two month after, the external fistula opening was closed around seton and I developed another abscess close to first one (and just little beside a fistula opening). So, back to a hospital and (two days later) home with some more stuff in the fistula beside a first seton (some kind of a rubber drain). Surgeon said he thinks it „would be fine this time“, but my GI wants to put me on Remicade (for the first time). I am not afraid of its side effect, but my problem is that I want to get pregnant. I am hoping the fistula issues can be settled down with this seton for only a while (while a get pregnant and have a baby), and then go to a Remicade. Not shore this will work, but that’s my hope.
I would appreciate any suggestions concerning fistula/ seton issues and pregnancy.
Good luck to all!