remicade-is anyone taking a "split dose"

sorry, i probably stated this wrong. I would take 5 mg dose every 4 weeks only. that would be the regiment. I was doing the methotrexate weekly injections but it flared my gout so bad that I could hardly walk for two weeks. I cannot take 6mp as it made me throw up :(

poke to doctor again this am. he is doing another stool sample.

thanks so much for allowing me to hear what you have been through. We all need to stick together to help each other out.

This GI I am with i have been witth for about a year. MY GP recommended him after my last GI let me go down the tubes and did nothing. He has been great. he has sent me to a research clinic that ordered the metho injections and tha clinic is the one actually reccomending the dosing changes. WHat has occured in the last few days is the heart specialists agree that the cronic "D" and dehydrations it causes is making it difficult to manage the heart medications....i go from feeling like "Mr Stay-Puff marshmellow man" to my blood pressure being something like 75/60 and i cannor get out of the chair. my wieght can swing over 10 lbs in just 3 to 5 days all from water wieght. those swings are not good for the body. The thing tht irks me is the new gi and the research team dont feel like what they see on my colonoscopy would cause such issues as the infected part is jus a few inches. but I keep telling them i have pains further up and I have gut malrotation. I have asked them about that but they say it would not cause the "D". anyway I am waiting on test results for c-diff and other baterial growth in the gut. Also, waiting on remicade load test...and another bout with insurance who usually wont cover that test.

I do know that I lucky that i dont have some of the issues many of us crohnies have. It might be that the remicade is keeping it in somewhat control like you mention.

Thanks again,