Hi there I wish I could tell you that a stoma will take away all your problems. Perhaps it will for you. But my son (26 years old) had a stoma (colostomy) in October 2007 due to excessive surgeries...
Hi Bac 52 I am also a mom with a 26 year old son who has suffered incredibly over the past 2 years with peri-anal fistulas and abcesses. Unfortunatly he has had a large portion of his b-tt sliced...
Yeah right - believe me its not just in America. In South Africa the cost works out to approx. R160 000.00 - (+- US$16000.00) per year for Remicade (Revelex) and the medical aids will not cover the...
Hi All Thanks for the answers, but I am still in the dark about food intake. My son has been diagnosed with severe perianal Crohns and although he never gets any intestinal type symptons like D,...
Thank you so much for all the responses. There is still a large open wound from the last fistula/abcess scraping/operation and is so large and deep it has to be cleaned and treated by a wound...
Hi Colin Thanks for your response. Would you mind answering the following questions for me? Hope I am not being too personal. - but have good reasons for asking. Why did you not continue with either...
Sorry 2nd question (as an after thought) for the day. What exactly is the difference between a diagnosis of Crohns Disease and Crohns Colitus? Thanks /community/emoticons/blush.gif ...
Can anybody give me sound advice regarding whether what you eat or dont eat makes any difference when you have perianal (rectal/perineum) type Crohns with a colostomy (stoma). Many kind hearted...
Honestly Stanley and Me, its people like you who can maintain their sense of humour who give me hope to carry on. Keep it up !...
Is there a remedy to stop excessive mucous (slimy jelly like substance) excreting from bottom once a colostomy has been performed. Active Crohns and excretion not usually so bad - but seems to be...
Hi FallColors Just wanted to tell you that by just reading your posts you give off such a calming and encouraging feeling. I obviously dont know you at all, but would like to encourage you to keep on...
Hi Trad Perhaps you must try the Ostomy link. Hope that by reading that there is HOPE and that others are living full and happy lives that it will encourage you to keep going. Thanks for other advice...
Hi does anyone out there know of a remedy for excessive mucous (slimy jelly like substance) being excreted from bottom. Have a stoma (colostomy) but seriously high amounts of this mucous being...
I am just so glad that I found this site. One cannot believe the comfort knowing there are others out there who in spite of their illness/situations, can still share positively into another person's...
I did hear that root canal treatment can have an effect. My son has just been diagnosed with Crohns and only on Imuran at present, but just before a massive fistulae/abscess flare up he had root...
WOW - thanks so much I cannot tell you all how encouraging it is to know we are "not alone" with this problem. Not that I wish anyone else to have it, but for so long now we have been thinking...
Hi thanks for replying. Your condition sounds exactly like the one I am talking about . However, I must come clean and admit I'm not the sufferer - my 25 year old son is. I have just been trying...
Hi - trying to make contact, but dont know if I am getting thru to anyone - no responses to my questions yet? To Fallcolours you mention you have rectal crohns - my son has just been diagnosed with...
Hi would you mind telling me how old your daughter is. My son is 25 and has had several fistulaes and absecess (severe) over the past 2 years - just diagnosed with crohns and starting medication, but...
Hi can anyone help me with information on peri-anal Crohns - it seems like no one else has this disease like I do. My intestines and colon are OK but I suffer from fistular abscessess which have to...