Sometimes when I get a muscle that's stiff and so tight that it feels like it's getting ripped open, the area feels all hot too. I get the hot-related effect a lot on the sides of my neck and the...
I get really swollen too! I start out the day where my stomach is nice and flat and normal. If I eat anything, even liquid stuff like ensure, even if it's just a small amount like 8oz of food, my...
Eh, while the mycoplasma infection idea sounds pretty believable, the CDC and NIH tests have not found the "50% infection rate" and so on that these other studies have reported....
Thank you everyone for helping me feel better about pain management. On one hand, I feel awful that other people have to deal with their muscles feeling like they are being ripped open, but on the...
I use tramadol too, it really helps a lot! My only problem is that I don't have enough pills to take it every time the pain gets really bad, I'll be working on that with the doctor soon. Everyone at...
Hey, I read that book too, it was really great! When I started to get tired a lot I thought my mitochondria were broken too. Now I'm off to look up malic acid /community/emoticons/wink.gif ...
Oh wow, funny you metion that, I've been having "fishbowl-vision" occasionally since I started the muscle relaxers! Never thought it might be from the medication, I think you just saved me a trip to...
Heh, kam's post gets my vote. It is similar to what I tell people (It is like having food poisoning AND the flu but they never go away) only much better in detail and would shut up pretty much...
I know a lot of people here don't really get much relief from their medications, and a lot of times we're stuck going to the bathroom many many times a day and "medicine that works" only means that...
Oh, good questions, I should have thought to include that in my original post. I have been having pain problems for about 20 months, mostly off and on until recently. It was usually just isolated to...
The doctor thinks I have fibro, but I am not sure if it would be. I have a lot of the symptoms in the fibro 101 article, but the actual pain seems uncharacteristic. From what I understand, it is...
Good luck Sniper, stay safe, I hope you guys don't lose any of your belongings either. If you do end up moving, would recommend the midwest. The wisconsin/illinois/indiana/ohio area can have...
I read this CNN article today about how fast you can end up with tens of thousands of dollars of debt from some x-rays and stitches. They mentioned this site...
Same here, employer-sponsored plan. You wouldn't think it's so much to ask for a little bit of money, like maybe burial expenses and a month's pay if you die, to go to someone's family, especially...
YAY :D :D :D I don't have them for my insurance, but I can't wait till they prove that it is money-saving and therefore motivate other insurers change their practices....
Hi Habs, sorry about all the misery your body is going through, hope your doctor can help! I have had headache problems ever since I was in kindergarden, and after the past few years of keeping close...
Well, I have had this pain and nausea with my stomach before, so I figured it was just coming back again. I was on all the expensive stuff like prevacid and protonix last time and none of it helped....
I know how that feels too, I have to wear big droopy shirts to hide my bulging stomach, and it doesn't always help enough. I am really really small, so at work it's "pregnant lady" whispers and to...
Hey all, I seem to be having a bad time with my stomach. You can skip to the purple text a couple paragraphs below here for my direct question that I was wondering. I've had this happen before and my...
It is the 312 area code on this page about the dietary study http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1144692715094.html so it is the downtown Chicago location, the actual Rush University Hospital. On Paulina...
Tramadol is a narcotic, and as far as I understand as long as you aren't taking an NSAID type drug (aspirin, advil, aleve, etc) you won't hurt your crohn's. If it helps, I have taken Tramadol many...
I vote for this being foil hat syndrome. Why? If this were true, these things alleged to be supported by documentation would be available in pdf scans on the website. Supporting documentation would...
I had to get mine out because it was only working at 31%, I literally sat there and writhed in pain all day unless I ate nothing but fruit or jello, because everything else had at least a little fat...
Melbatoast, my knees are having the same problem. It is mostly my right knee, but my left knee is starting to get bad too. I also feel like my knees are bruised on the sides of my kneecaps, but there...
Oh snap! What exactly should you say to the doctor, then? What kind of stuff should you have him do, or look into, or check on? I have the white poo also but it is a thin stripe on each side. Every...
I think that's something where they have worked out a discount with the provider...provider charges a price that is 300% profit on an item or procedure, and agrees to only charge the insurance a...
Well, I was seeing an allergist until he moved across the country, now there is no allergist in my health group and I have to wait until september for them to get a new one. My allergies and asthma...
I have my skin break out in rashes from sunscreen too, and also found that Bare Minerals doesn't bother my skin. The rest of my body has no protection, since I'm not gonna put makeup all over my...
Actually, the only thing that will become unavailable is generic or CFC albuterol canisters. If you already have un-generic albuterol with HFA canisters, like Ventolin, ProAir or Proventil, you don't...
What is GVHD? I was so excited about the fast-track status on Prochymal, thinking it might be available for us soon. Maybe they'll fast-track it for Crohn's later this year......
Omg, lady wanting to do a rectal exam on you? How totally creepy! I wouldn't even want my closest dearest friends or relatives looking at my butt, let alone looking in my butt...
Oh how helpful! For the past couple months I had bladder trouble where it was really easy to accidentally wet myself a little and I would be like "gotta go gotta go gotta gooooo" maybe 3x per hour on...
Yeah, on one hand I wish I could stop taking them since my butt hurts from the bathroom visits, but on the other hand I want to take them forever because I feel so terrible if I'm even 2 hours past...
Well, in my experience, even if you are not someone who is gaining or losing weight or appearing to be sick, gossipers will find something to gossip about in regards to other people. So, it really...
I've been on iron pills for just over 3 weeks and I have to go to the bathroom a lot more often. I was going once per day, which was nice, but now I have to go usually 3x per day since starting the...
If it helps at all while you are waiting to hopefully get cough syrup from the doctor, I found that for some reason when no otc cough syrup will help me cough less, the robitussin cough uh...pills?...
I kept having attacks while on the advair and the doctor said it's because I have really severe allergies that were not being controlled by the medications I was on. Whenever I would be exposed to...
I think the "HA" substance is probably histamine... my doctor it is normal to get something like a 3 for a reaction to histamine, since histamine is the substance your body releases in response to an...
Poor Randy, hope that bursted lump turns out to be nothing serious :( Interestingly enough, I was wondering if there is a MANopause and although it is up for debate as to whether or not it should...
You may have crohn's if: You've been to the doctors so many times that when a doctor forgets to do part of a standard exam, you notice it before he does. "Hey you guys forgot to weigh me. Don't...
Rosie I have the same level of sensitivity to products that make me break out in acne too, it's frustrating! [Mineral oil is THE DEVIL, lol!] I am allergic to dial soap though for some reason, so I...
Wait, so....if I had recently started eating beans every day in some form (protein + cheap + healthy) a few weeks before my intestines were suddenly like "HI WE'RE GOING TO GUSH BLOOD ALL DAY...
You may have Crohn's: If all the pharmacies in your area recognize you without having to look up your name or account. And automatically know which letter bin your medicine is in. And even know it's...
I either keep seeing the same vague answer, verbatim, on many different websites, or an original but vaguely worded explanation that still leaves me confused. So....what is a skin tag, as it relates...
These are all really good, I like re-reading the thread when I need a laugh XD You may have crohn's if you know where every health item is located in every store you shop at, and know what every...
Well, surprisingly, the 325mg of iron doesn't make me feel terrible at all. I feel a little better already, I'm not dead tired by 8pm every night, but I still feel pretty tired in general and still...
My gall bladder function was down to 30% and eating even 1/2 gram (0.5 grams) of fat would make me writhe in pain for about 2 hours. Having my gall bladder removed did help, now only if I eat...
I have read many times that Aloe has a laxative effect. Perhaps that is the negative issue that kept you from taking the Aloe pills? I know most of us here do not want or need more trips to the...
It could definitely be from the predinsone. My GI and regular doctor said they hadn't heard of it, but other people at work with UC and Crohn's both complain of tooth problems from prednisone. My...
Brian, sounds like the eye doctors you have seen are jerks. I had that problem too until my GI sent me to my health group's opthamologist. Since he's part of the health group, that guy is there for...