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I miss my belly button............I had a very sexy inny........if I do say so myself... too funny Paul...
........and I was on Keflex and then cipro......... btw Randy.........just saw your photos on your site..........we have the same belly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Cheers...
Hi, Thanks for the message. I saw my surgeon today, and he debrided the entire wound. There was a lot of necrotic tissue, and he feels that there is actually no infection. Surprise there. He is not...
[tr ][td class=msgThread2 height="100%" vAlign=top]Well Peeps................hope everyone is doing well. I had my incisional hernia repair on May 11, and I've been reluctant to post the results of...
Well Peeps................hope everyone is doing well. I've been reluctant to post the results of the surgery because there has been complications. The surgery went ok, but 2 weeks after surgery, I...
Hi..................don't be embarrassed to talk to your doctor about it...............my CD was diagnosed BECAUSE of the fistula. It was the one thing that conivnced them it was CD and not some...
Hi, I've had several bowel obstructions. Not sure if you are having the same problem as me but, here is what happens to me. Pain - severe stabbing pain. Then there is like a belly/bowel paralysis...
Hi Everyone.... Well, getting ready for abdo surgery, and knowing that my gut muscles are already super weak, I was wondering if any of you had success with rebuilding muscle mass/toning muscles...
Hi, Don't leave it...go to your doc. When my first fistula formed, it felt like I a baseball bat up my butt...........it was so sore. I left it (denial) alone and it just got bigger and bigger and...
Hi, WOW!!! Whenever I think I'm alone in this struggle with this disease you guys all come through for me. Sorry you are having to deal with the same stuff as me, but I'm really glad you are all...
Hi, Has anyone had open surgery for hernia repair. I have an incisional hernia with a large loop of small bowel being strangulated......which has been giving me great pain over the last few weeks....
Skylardaisy.....and anyone who's had an obstruction........what was the cause of your bowel obstruction? I had one a couple of weeks ago and I'm being investigated for adhesions, tumour, and ischemic...
My fistulas are in my rectum and run to my butt cheek......antibiotics and the threat of 'marsupialization' shrunk the thing down to a pinhead....which at this point I can live with, with the help of...
I get the mouth sores and the bumps as well.....on the inside of the cheek.....kinda like a water pimple.......
Hello Everyone, Thanks for all your responses. It is really comforting to not be alone with this. This disease leaves me feeling isolated at times, and I wonder if anyone takes me seriously....
Hello Everyone, My professional background is in Medical Imaging (CT, Angiography), and I am now a Manager in a large department. During my career, whenever I encountered Crohn's paitients, they were...
Neither is any fun. My largest was 10mm and took 10 days to pass. Your description of a blockage is pretty accurate. Both of them at the same time and ...... well what can I say.....no way to...
Hi, I have the numbness. Just on my left thigh, and it is not there all the time. I've not asked my doc about it because I thought it was unrelated, but with this disease anything seems possible. Let...
Hi, My doc tells me that D and C are the same symptom........when I'm flaring I can have watery D followed by C and on and on........he suggested Metamucil and for the most part is kinda puts me...
yeah..........get it checked out soon.....this desease is so messed up and has so many co-ailments..........when I flare, I get incredible pain when on the can.........there is sometimes no bowel...
Hi, In the end this latest one was partial. I was in pain for about 6 hours before I took myself to ER. Pain was unbelievable...unable to stand up, but it resolved itself after four hours in ER. The...
Hello Everyone, So I go to my GI doc today to discuss the multiple bowel obstructions I've had (6 in as many months), and he of course did not even acknowledge the kidney stones when I mentioned...
Thanks. I appreciate your comments. With stone #10 making its way out, I thought I was a bit of an anomaly. I'm seeing my GI doc tomorrow and will get a referral to a urologist. Paul...
Hello........diagnosed with Crohn's 4 years ago, 45 year old male, 1/3 colon removed along with the sigmoid. Here's the deal, everytime I have a major flare I get a kidney stone, seems like just for...