My taper was slow in the grand scheme of things but did get kind of fast in the end... I was on 60 mg for 8 weeks, then 50 for 2 weeks, 40 for 2 weeks, 30 for 2 weeks, then I started getting some...
Hi all, I really just want to vent my frustration with this stupid disease and my messed-up body. I am on Humira and just finished a 3.5 month long course of high dose prednisone. I am in clinical...
Hi everyone, I have been on prednisone for almost 9 weeks - 6 weeks at 60 mg, 2 weeks at 50, and now almost a week at 40 mg. Is it possible to have taper/withdrawal symptoms just from going from 50...
Well I survived... I wasn't able to do any of them myself. The nurse did all 4. She did 1 in each thigh and 1 on each side of the belly. The belly DEFINITELY hurt worse for me, and it still feels...
Thanks for the input thus far. I'm actually most nervous about getting 4 shots in a row the first time. I am a wimp about pain and I'm scared after the first shot I'm going to punch the nurse in the...
Hi everyone, I am starting Humira next week (still on 60 mg of prednisone right). I am scared! Not of the side effects or complications, but (embarrassingly) of giving myself the shots. Tell me about...
Hi everyone, My last post on here was about my unsure diagnosis - I had a c-scope 2 months ago where biopsies came back inconclusive but based on the visual inflammation, symptoms, and family...
My husband is sympathetic but he doesn't really "get" it, especially because I try not to complain a lot, but then he doesn't know how bad I am feeling....
I was having pretty bad burning & pain after bowel movements, and my doctor checked me and thought I had a fissure. He gave me 0.4% nitroglycerin cream. Well talk about pain and burning!! It burns...
Thanks for the support and info. Skyflyerjen, I guess I just wish there was more certainty. I definitely want to get better... but I also don't want to take a bunch of drugs if they aren't going to...
Here's the update... Just saw my doctor and he came in, asked about my symptoms since stopping the antibiotics, and decided that he is calling it Crohn's even though my original tests weren't 100%...
Skyflyerjen, I assume? I'm going to ask about looking at the whole small bowel because I know a colonoscopy can't see too far. In other weird symptoms... I've starting passing Asacol whole!! I've...
I've had the itching this week too. Diaper rash cream (like Butt Paste, or just A+D cream), embarrassingly, helps a lot....
pb4, I didn't get to see the inflammation but I'll ask this week. I was pretty out of it in recovery when he came to talk to me... Propafol is good stuff but I am light weight and could NOT wake up....
Beave, here are some answers... 1. I have taken ibuprofen occasionally for headaches, cramps, etc but never consistently. I have made a conscious effort to stop taking it over the last few months as...
Hi all, I've had bowel problems for basically as long as I can remember. I finally saw a GI after things got worse this spring. I had a colonoscopy 2 weeks ago that showed inflammation in my terminal...