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Lately I've been having back pain and pain in my knee joints as well. Is this normal based on the medication I am on? I am only 25, and find it hard to believe this is normal for someone my age.

It could easily be the extra intestinal manifestations that go along with having an IBD (either crohn's or UC), it does suck to have those issues (let alone this disease) at a young age, but try exercising, yoga, pilates, aquasizing anything to keep your joints moving because it's know that even light exercise can help tons and you want to do what you can to avoid it getting worse, especially if it's not med related but instead one of the intestinal manifestations from having IBD.

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I've been having severe back pain for about a month now. I have an emergency appointment with my GI on Friday to discuss it, I'll try and remember to come back here and let you know what he says.

I'm on 40 mg of Pred, I think that has something to do with it.

Could be the pred taper or a form of joint disease associated with intestinal disease called enteropathic arthropathy. Fortunately IBD arthritis is not permanently damaging, can move from joint to joint, and usually accompanies flares. Often when the flare subsides, so does the arthritis.

Sometimes my knees, already battered from high school and college sports, take a beating during flares. I usually take minimal doses of tylenol to help with the discomfort. It goes away after the flare.

She got progressively worse over a period of weeks...had to totally discontinue it. A few years before that, she got nerve damage on the bottoms of her feet....so, that's two meds that she cannot take for CD.

She, however, takes Remicade irregularly...but methotrexate regularly as well as Asacol.

Definitely get yourself checked out because it could be autoimmune related or degenerative. Best to know just in case there's something else going on.

I can relate to leg/knee/body pains...had them all my life, but never to the point that something really showed on an x-ray to warrant the pain I was in.

At least it hasn't progressed to the point of no return for me as of yet.

You could consider a digestive enzyme called Bromelain or another called Zymactive. It's supposed to help with inflammation in joints. I did use them for a while and noticed certain pains ceased, others didn't.

I'm not consistent with them.

I do, however, get some relief from Robaxin.

Let us know the outcome.

quincy

Wondering if our pains aren't gout related? I used to get gout real bad. Since I've been on the pred I have been gout free. Worried if I will get a gout attack as I am tapering. Normal meds for gout can't be taken with UC. Ibuprofen, colchezine. All are bad for our guts. And We have some stricts diets that could be causing the uric acid build up. Only natural remedies I found for gout ( and all inflamation ) was sunflower seeds and cherries or cherry juice. And these work. WHen I would have a bad gout attack, thats all I would eat and drink for a day, maybe two. and it would knock it right out of my joint. Thats one of the reasons I I started the spinach/sunflower seed diet. It made sense to me with my past experience with gout. Haven't tried adding cherries or cherry juice to this diet. It might help the inflamation in my colon also. Might be worth trying and adding to my new "diet"