When I first got ill with my Crohn's disease at 20 when I was university, the Drs took about a year to diagnose me and in the meantime I got sicker and sicker. When I finally got a diagnosis, my...
I became a vegetarian when I was 10 years old and was diagnosed with Crohn's aged 20. There aren't any foods that I've found I'm particularly intolerant to. Only when I'm having a flare all food...
That's just like me. At one point things were so bad I had to sit down on the toilet seat to brush my teeth as I couldn't stand up that long at the basin. Kam 7 -my symptoms were a mass about the...
Hi All, To cut a long story short I suffered a really bad flare up of my Crohn's last year but this has successfully been brought into remission and I am on Azathioprine (75mg) to keep it there....
I see Dr Asante at the Princess Royal University Hospital (formerly Farnborough Hospital) in Orpington, Kent which is on the edge of London (zone 6) He's very good and helped me get my Crohn's into...
hi all. just wanted to say thank you all for the info and good advice. went on holiday in the end and the day after i came back i marched into casualty as my apointment with the colo-rectal surgeon...
hey, please, please, please go to see dr again and get some tests done! worrying about your problem for is much worse than whipping your bits out in front of a dr or nurse (ask for a female) for 2...
Wow - I know what you're going through. I had my perianal abscess drained a couple of weeks ago. It was so bad that I didn't have enough energy to stand up long enough to wash my teeth at the basin....
hi miss uk, reading your post was like i could have written it myself... Prednisolone managed to get my crohn's into remission back in jan (and now on 75mg of azathioprine) but in march i discovered...
Hi all, My body's in such a mess! The good news is that after flaring for months on end last year, I went on the pred for a second time and it managed to get me into remission. To sustain this my...
Hi, Last year I flared and in September 07 my Dr put me on Prednisolone for 6 weeks. I started on 30mg for a week and each week I tapered down 5 mg. The Pred kicked in after a day and for those 6...
I've been on Imuran for a month now at 75mg a day. I haven't had any issues with nausea or vomiting but have been shedding hair all over the place. Luckily it doesn't happen in patches so I don't...
I've started a second dose of pred. and it seems to be helping my Crohn's symptoms -cramping, d, high temperature every evening and general feeling like rubbish. What I am still battling with is a...
This is my second flare up of CD and I've been put on Pentasa (8 tablets a day) and Prednisolone -40g (8 tablets) to be tapered down over coming weeks. This is a lot for me as I'm not used to taking...