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Posted 10/12/2012 7:11 PM (GMT 0)
Just curious about research on hormones, especially in women? My onset was 4months after giving birth, as I have heard for others, or during pregnancy. Also many women experience increased symptoms with pre menstrual symptoms. Wondering if going on birth control has any effects.
Posted 10/12/2012 7:20 PM (GMT 0)
you know maybe for some women giving birth is trigger for IBD. Theoretically, maybe if you didn't have kids you would never have IBD...
Posted 10/12/2012 10:37 PM (GMT 0)
My UC showed up about 2 months after starting the pill, and the worst flare I ever had was 5 days into starting the pill again after I had kids.....it doesn't agree with me, but there are tons of women on here that do BETTER on the pill. I don't know....you will just have to seeif it works for you.
Posted 10/13/2012 2:39 AM (GMT 0)
Old Mike has not researched hormones much, but to find quite a bit go to pubmed here and search colitis hormones,pregnancy colitis.

Old Mike

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Posted 10/13/2012 12:45 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks
Posted 10/13/2012 11:03 PM (GMT 0)
Oral birth control pills are strongly considered a very possible trigger for crohn's. Looking back at my own experiance, it was shortly after I went on BC pills as a teen that I ended up getting perianal crohn's skin tags then in my early 20's I became pregnant, about a yr and a half after having my first baby my CD started to affect me internally (and still had issues with the perianal crohn's skin tags that were misDX as hemmies until my CD became full blown internally, then the docs connected all the "dots").

Hormones definitely play a role in IBD (both CD and UC).
Posted 10/14/2012 2:40 PM (GMT 0)
Old Mike....our resident researcher! :) thanks for posting all your useful information (tho at times it makes my brain hurt! Lol).

Allswell, my UC reared its ugly head too after the birth of my son. And afterwards, my periods would almost always make me flare. It was a vicious cycle. Even my GI knew of the correlation between hormones and flares because he would have me do enemas a few days before I was due to start until about a week afterwards. I eventually ended up having an endometrial ablation and it helped me tremendously because I no longer have my periods. As for the BC, personally I have never been able to take them. My body just handle them. Any shift in hormones cause me migraines.
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