They decided it isn’t a reaction to the inflectra. My doc wants to see me to discuss my symptoms, but doesn’t have an appointment until 2/21 😡 I don’t know what to look for in a flare. When I flared...
My crohn’s guy is at a conference this week so his nurse is looking into it. Been a long week 😢...
I was diagnosed with crohn’s 10 months ago, and have been on remicade since April. My insurance recently switched me to inflectra (cuz yay). I had my first inflectra infusion this past Friday and...
Saw my Crohn's guy today and he wants to start me on Imuran (no idea if I'm spelling that right) after I heal from surgery to prevent me from developing antibodies to the remicade. He says because of...
I have surgery scheduled with the uro-gyn on 10/24. Had to get it scheduled halfway between remicade infusions so that I could stay on schedule with those. Really wish it was sooner because I'm...
They FINALLY found the fistula- this guy found it right away by just doing an exam. Making me wish I had spoken up at the gynecologist in June and insisted the doc did my exam and not the student. At...
Uro-gynecologist. I have to do a little experiment ahead of time though- it involves A TON of beets and a tampon....
So they couldn't find a fistula on the sigmoidoscopy. They still think there could be a fistula from my small intestine to my vagina so I have to go see another doctor. Good news is the remicade...
I have been having gas issues lately where I have no control over it. Kinda like the gas just falls out of my body no mater what I do, and it does feel like it's coming out vaginally. I never...
I went to the gynecologist in June and she thought it looked like I had a yeast infection. She had a student so my pap, and a very painful exam. I feel like if there was something there maybe the...
I was diagnosed with Crohn's almost exactly 4 months ago. My diagnosis came after weeks of what I thought were just painful hemmorhoids, and a very traumatic colonoscopy (my IV infiltrated and I got...