The last 3 times my son thought he was having a major flare up it turned out he had an infection. Symptoms are severe cramping and bloody diahrea. The first infection we don't know what it was...
My son has a Dr. visit tomorrow morning. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the Dr will present some kind of plan for getting my son off of prednizone and getting him into remission. If not- time...
Anyone from anywhere near Charlottesville? My son lives west of Charlottesville so would prefer to not have to go all the way to Richmond....
Anyone have any experience with the gastroenterologists at UVA? I didn't realize it was Ok to ask this or would have done it sooner. Just saw a similar post of someone looking for a doc in Atlanta so...
Navy- by any chance do you live in Virginia? Your doc sounds like a dram cone true....
Best of luck finding a good one. Let us know how is goes. I followed your suggestion and tried ratemds.com and no one has posted about a gastroenterologist in my son's area of the world since 2008...
Thanks for the responses. Glad to hear others have also had some poor reponses from the GI guys. I have heard that a lot of them are not really all that thrilled with having to treat IBD'ers. They...
Any one ever try active organic manuka honey for Crohn's and have you gotten good results? A friend on mine sells it and is trying to get my son to give it a try....
Trying to get a feel for how often I should expect the gastroenterologist to be seeing my son. It seems like he always gets symptoms a few weeks after a visit and then it will be several weeks before...
Wow- my son was on anitbiotics for acne in high school. A few weeks before he started with the bloody stools that was eventually diagnosed as Crohn's he had his wisdom teeth out and was on...
I don't have the answer to your question MMMNAVY but my nephew that has colitis is on Azocol. At some point some one had told me colozol for Crohn;s and Azocol for UC. Guess this is another thing...
Lets try this one more time. After the initial diagnosis and being prescribed colozol my son felt pretty well for about 3 years and both his GI doc and my husband and I stressed he should be very...
Mary, Thank you so much for your input. We do seem to be in the same boat. Your thoughts have made mine a little easier to row!...
I don't think either Gastroenterologist has given him a blueprint for what taking care of himself means. As I have read in other threads there is much disagreement about diet as a means of taking...
Thanks for all of the support and advice. Today is a better day for all. My son is back at his home and had to go into work which was a positive. He has a group of friends there that are very...
Ok-I see the general trend here is to assume I am a helicopter Mom-which I am. However, in this case I feel that it is warrented. I think that he probably has gotten in with an incomptant...
I am new to this forum- first one I ever found that looks like people are actually reading and posting. My son was diagnosed with Crohn's his sopohmore year of college, April 2005. At first it was...