pred sucks for everything except helping the crohn's. i become a crazy girl when i'm on it my bones ache i can't sleep i gain weight, i shake, my heart races. avoid salt when on it, eat potassium....
pain in lower right quadrant that makes me wanna shoot myself, fatigue, i fart like an old man, inflammed eyes, arthritis teeth are breaking ( prolly from pred, need to get a bone density test). and...
as b-12 you should take injections because with crohn's we can't absorb it thru our gut. it's a monthly injection into a muscle and it is a pretty ruby red liquid if that counts for anything:) diet...
buddah, i will pray for you. i sincerly hope things will turn in your favor....
i go once a year but i get inflammed eyes a lot and that is common for someone with crohn's he told me. Irisitis, inflammation of the iris is more serious than pink eye and he told me if the colored...
how about humira? i am 26 and want to try to get pregnant in a couple years and my doc says she wants to keep me on it even i get pregnant. doesn't sound like a good idea to me....
i am a CNA and nursing student and i call out a lot. i've been fired from 2 jobs because of it and my coworkers always make fun of me cause i call out but hey i get sick a lot. sometimes i am out for...
oh another thing, my GI doc told me last time i went that a patient of her's on remicade had caught legionairre's disease which is a nasty pneumonia-like resp. disease. My doc mentioned it in passing...
i've been on humira for a year and i can feel it now starting not to work. it's wonderful when it does though. i feel ya about infection though. i am in nursing school and i've been a CNA for 6...
hi i'm new here. my name is amanda and i'm 26. I'm in nursing school and work 32 hours a week as a CNA and i've had crohn's for 10 years. i am currently just on humira but i feel it stopping to work...