My horse and my dog (and my son) always keep me smiling. Go ahead, get yourself a new best friend! Totally worth it...
When I'm dehydrated, nauseated, or having an anxiety/panic attack, my heart feels like its going to beat out of my chest....
I live in a climate that can be really hot and really cold. The weather doesn't bother my crohns, but it does severely bother my joints, to the point I can't move some days. And that's difficult...
I have had many stents put in my ureturs due to inflamation of my intestines.. they were squishing the ureturs and causing back pain....
well now I know what STD is. sorry I couldn't be of more help....
I also have a higher pulse. Like you, My doctors don't seem too worried about it, but when I go into the hospital I always get attached to the tele, which is quiet annoying....
Ivy has good suggestions, but I am like Nanners & FunGuy. I'm completley open with people....
CONGRATS! I am currently expecting my first Pentasa baby! you are right, it is scarey the first go around...
My GI says soda is TERRIBLE for my and my crohns, it's the air bubbles that do me in....
someone people have large family history with crohns while others don't. My Memere (french for grandma) had crohns, both her daughters have crohns & I have crohns. My 2 female cousins do not, or have...
don't be sorry for asking all these questions! #1, up until I found out I was pregnant, once a month I would get horrible, horrible, pains in my stomach, and would have to go on a liquid diet and...
2006-2007 I was on TDI (RI's Temporary Disability) probably 2 out of 4 weeks every month. TDI had no problem accepting me as long as my dr filed the correct paperwork. you do have a week waiting...
it has been 4 years since my small bowl resection and I am currently in the middle of a flare. only problem is everytime I make an appointment with my GI the pain goes away.. UGH! My GI sent me for...
before my surgery my period went away completley, because I didn't have enough nutrients in my body & my body thought I was starving myself. I wasn't able to get below 20 mg of prednisone & it...
I forgot to put that my bowel had a stricture & scar tissue that would not go away with medication....
I had open surgery and a foot and a half of my small bowl removed. I needed it done because after 6 months of trying to avoid surgery I was in desperate need. I felt fantastic after the surgery.....
wow, I have never heard anything like this before! I have had drs I don't know treat me like an addict before, but then my regular drs set them straight. thats it though, never heard of what your ins...
wow... some people will blame just about anything just to have a cause for their disease!...
So I went to my surgeon yesterday because I was running out of Pentasa & still do not have a GI. I talked to him all about my horrible hospital visit( I wrote about it a few months back) &...
after my resection surgery I was hospitalized for 2 1/2 weeks and then it took me 2 more weeks at home before I felt "back to normal" or well what my normal is now. I still have D every day but for...
I am 5'3 1/2. Crohns started around age 12 or 13. My mother is 5' and her crohns started at age 13. My dad is 5'7 and doesn't have crohns....
once I was released frpom the hospital I had no instructions either. but while in the slowly, and i mean slowly worked me up to eating regular food....
my GI and my surgeon both have told me to just eat a banana when I'm in need of Potassium. the iv form & the liquid burns(and the liquid tastes disgusting)...
try reading through these, and printing out which one explains it better & hand it to her & make her read it. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/crohns-disease/DS00104 or...
find a website that explains WHAT crohns is. I HATE people like that. I used to have a friend tell me all of the time that it was in my head and if I thought posetively enough and ate healthier that...
I'm on Pentasa and I have been fo the past 3 1/2 years. I take the 500mg pills so I take 8 a day. It helps out alot, but for the most part, or from what I understand from reading everyones...
i was always underweight and very sickly looking, that is until I had my resection surgury.. now I can't seem to lose weight even with diet and exercise! My doctors told me its because I was so sick...
thank you, I have had to call my surgeon from my hospital room once before and he took care of everything rather quickly, I don't know why I didn't try calling this time, I think I was just...
I have crohns, I honestly can say I have tried it, it's not for me, but you can. I guess it's ok as long as nothing is going on with that part of your baby at that time. Like I would probably say...
I don't know what triggered my CD, but I do know that I have had stomach pains for as long as I can remember. I have asked my mother before and the only thing she has come up with is that I have had...
I agree, ramble all you want. We all are here for each other, whether to just listen or to offer the much needed support that we all want. I don't know what to say except that you are in my thoughts,...
welcome to the forum! I Agree with Matthewalso! and I am one of those firm believeers on being on a maitenence drug for the rest of my life, even when feeling fine, because from my experiences...
ok, well I got discharged from the hospital yesterday afternoon, THANK GOD! It was the 2nd worst expeirience ever. All I wanted was my surgeon called, and the GP dr that had been assinged to me...
that is great!!!...
my mother had a colostomy and almost all of her intestine removed and if she goes off her meds she can still flare. i hope the remicade works for you!!...
was it a resection sugery?? open or lap? glad everything went well! im surprised your fuctioning and able to type on the computer! lol I was all sorts of messed up for 2 weeks after my surgery!...
I had a resection surgery in 2007, and before I had it, My GI was against it because he said there were many more options, but I talked with my surgeon and he was very much for it. thats usualy how...
my hospital (Rhode Island Hospital) isn't on the list for GI, but I Love that hospital, the nurses are great and I love my surgeon and most of my doctors....
horrible stomach pains and mouth sores and extreme fatigue. and after a day of the horrible pains not going away i usualy end up in the hospital....
I had my resection in 2007 and have had D everyday since then. I could eat semi normal foods and was hardly ever in any pain. But like ZenaWP said, it is completely different for everybody....
i don't have life insurance out on myself, but my mother has life insurance on herself, and she ha had crohns since she was 15 years old or so....
it depends what dosage your on, i take 2 500 milligram 4xD...
thank you! I haven't had a scan or anything done yet, but I'll be sure to post whats going on and such after I go see my surgeon....
I had my first resection surgery in march of 2007, It's been over 3 years so I guess thats a good thing. I'm just ranting or well venting because I'm kind of deressed that I didn't make it 5 years....
aww, im so sorry!...
the only two things i can say that work for me are Dilaudid & Percs. nothing else even eases the pain....
it has been 3 years since my resection surgery and I have yet to have a solid bm....
crohns can affect any part of your digestive system. I know when i flare up i get sores in my mouth & at the corners of my mouth....
oh alright, i was just confused, thank you for clearing that up :) yeah, I'm more of a grazer also....
CONGRATS!!!!!...