Hey guys, I'm a 22 year old college senior. I have Crohn's Disease and now kidney stones, and the constant pain is really getting in the way of my ability to function - my disease has been getting...
Hey Guys, I recently relocated to the Cleveland area, and I don't know how to keep getting my pain meds! I had so much difficulty getting a doctor to prescribe them for me in NJ (GIs won't advise...
Hahaha, Chlokeno, I really appreciate what you had to say, and I think your acknowledgement that having this disease made your boyfriend the man he is is a really apt and important one. It's just a...
Don't worry, I haven't done anything wrong! I just watched a prison movie, and started wondering what happens to people with conditions like Crohn's in prison. Does the ADA's stipulation for...
Cleveland Clinic GI is the absolute worst! Go to Mayo. It's so much better, and far less prone to devastating clerical errors. PS they don't actually perform the Prometheus test in house, it's a lab...
Hey Aronk, about a year ago my gyn diagnosed me with a Bartholin Cyst, but it turned out to be a fistula as well. It's apparently a common misdiagnosis for people with Crohn's. In reality, Bartholin...
Hey girl, Look, I love the Healingwell forum. The community here is great, and their advice and support has been indispensable to me on more than one occasion. That said, it's important to recognize...
Hey guys, I've been taking 150 mg of Zoloft daily for the last five months for PTSD. I was traveling out of the country doing research in the jungles in S. East Asia and my suitcase was stolen, and...
Hey Guys, I'm coming off like the worst three weeks of my life, and I wanted to share my story (for moral support, and maybe as a warning). Four weeks ago a gynecologist officially diagnosed my...
Hey guys, After like nine months of being told it was just a persistent abscess, I have finally been diagnosed with a fistula. It goes from my rectum to my labia, and the end point on the labia is...
Hey guys, I was prescribed 500 mg Flagyl 3x day about a month ago to combat a fistula. I've been having the hardest time with it, which was very unexpected. I've taken Flagyl before in 375 mg...
Have you guys heard anything about these? I am continually low on B vitamins, and this sounds like a cool way to dispense them, but I don't know whether or not they are safe/ effective etc. Thanks!...
Guys, I'm really freaking out. I've been being treated by my gynecologist for an abscess on my right labia for several months now, and it's not getting better. She says that with my Crohn's there's a...
Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone here had experience with taking transdermal painkillers for their Crohn's pain. I really like the idea - ordinary pain killers make me really nauseous and I...
When I was at the gynecologist's office today she cut the abscess slightly. Now that the hole is larger, I've noticed that I appear to be passing gas through the hole in time with gas through my...
I developed an abscess on the lower part of my right labia majora close to the location of the Bartholin's Gland (however it is not a Bartholin's cyst, apparently). The abscess was punctured, and has...
Every once in a while over the past couple months there will be a bunch of drops of blood in the water after I relieve my bowels. Today I went to the bathroom and I noticed a couple drops of recently...
I am on maintenance meds, but I just haven't really gone above-and-beyond that at all. Can I get enough nutrients from the liquid diet?...
I'm worried that I might be on the verge of a flare, so I'm scrambling to try and prevent it from happening. For the most part I don't think too much about what I eat or the supplements I take - I am...
This is so gross, gosh. I'm in college and for the past few weeks my butt-hole has been hurting a lot. Every time I... relieve myself it aches and feels sore. What could be the reason for this? I'm...
My doctor's overseas though, so that's not possible. I already asked :(...
I'm here for the month working on a project, and I was careful to get all my daily meds before leaving the country and coming here. But for some reason I didn't think to bring enough pain meds! I...
Hey guys, I'm filling out a Disability Self-Disclosure form for college - I'm starting at the end of the summer. It's asking me "What support services or accommodations do you plan to ask for at this...
So I've been feeling really good lately, and in a day and a half I'm leaving to volunteer with an NGO and give emergency medical care to people in another country for a month and a half. And...
Hey guys, My Crohn's has been relatively stable lately, but it's always fragile. I have a pretty serious boyfriend and I was wondering what you guys thought about going on The Pill? I remember...
(I realize I'm posting it twice, but only like three people looked at the last one in as many hours, so I figured I needed a flashier subject heading) Hey guys, I'm going to Israel in a couple weeks...
Hey guys, I'm going to Israel in a couple weeks for a semester-abroad program in Jerusalem. I was wondering if somebody could let me know about the medical situation there; I really don't know what...
Hey, you're not alone. I'm an 18 year old girl and I drink and eat anything and everything and go to dance parties and keep awful hours and drink tons of coffee and all that. I effectively live as an...
I've taken both zolpidem and zopiclone, and had bad experiences with the latter. Ambien is fine, great, but zopiclone did something weird to my brain, I think. About a half an hour after I took a...
Lately I've been feeling occasional sharp stabbing pains in the heels of my feet. Not regular pins and needles sensations - they occur one at a time and sting acutely before disappearing. I'm taking...
The rise in drug resistant bacteria is no small matter. I've been doing a lot of research on this recently and corresponding with a lot of scientists, doctors and politicians. I'm captain of my high...
My parents sat me down today to propose the idea of freezing my ovum. I guess they really want grandkids and are afraid all the drugs I take for my Crohn's and will take in the future will have a...
Tok-y-o....
I've always been thin, i'm 5'4 and weigh normally between like, 100 and 112 Crohn's depending, but I've always had kind-of a bulge around my belly-button. But, I mean, I don't get anything that...
Hey, is it really hard to get insurance when you have Crohn's? I'm still covered by my dad's, but I'm 17 and I don't know how long it's gonna last. Is it hard to get coverage/ are the rates really...
I'm not going to suggest not seeing a doctor; it's not my place at all, and I don't know the severity or frequency of the pain, or how long this has been going on. But I've had this problem a couple...