Hi “straydog.” I believe you’re correct about the no fee from a disability attorney if you lose your case. I remembered it wrong. Sorry about that. I didn’t pay my lawyer out of pocket. I paid my...
I realize that this is a LATE post, but I thought I’d share the experiences I had and decisions I made as I applied for disability. I went through process 7 years ago. I was lucky enough to still be...
I was able to keep trips to the bathroom down to tolerable level with yogurt - specifically Wallaby Low Fat Vanilla. This was in the fall of 2008, so I don’t know if the brand still uses the same...
I had something similar happen to me. I was diagnosed with a bad case of tonsillitis in 2007. I took the antibiotics and thought I was okay enough to get my next dose of Remicade. I went to the...
I am going through the same thing - but I got fired first, after 24 years of promotions and stellar reviews. Apparently, they decided privately that my healthcare costs were too high (the company is...
Hey Jenn, I am about to have a redo on my first 360 degree Nissen wrap. I've been in pain for almost 2 years, so I am actually happy about the surgery - and that my doctors no longer think I'm crazy...
Sometimes hiatal hernias don't show up on the scope. Mine is only viewable when I am upright - so when I am laying down for a scope, there is no sign of it. The hernias can slide around and hide, the...
What meds are you using for the Crohn's? A few years ago, I had to go off all biologics (Remicade at the time) to get rid of a lingering and extremely awful respiratory infection that I couldn't...
I started doing some research on depression and inflammation a few years ago. After being off anti TNF-a meds for about a year under the care of my gastro (Remicade), I started a pretty bad flare and...
I have Crohn's and had a Laproscopic Nissen Fundoplication a little over a year ago. I didn't have heartburn - I had LPR which caused me to constantly inhale stomach acid. It was a bad, bad thing. I...
"Isolated upright refluxers" has been my experience exactly. I had a Nissen in early December of 2011. It was working on resolving many of my LPR symptoms. Lately, it seems like there's something...
That's good information. I appreciate your willingness to share it. I take immunosupressants to control the Crohn's (Humira, currently), so frequent respiratory infections are a major part of my...
For me it was diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss and severe joint pain. That was 1997-98. No joint pain since then (thankfully) but I've been through the wringer in other ways, as has everyone...
Thanks for replying, Denise. I've decided to ask my gastro doc to test the wrap to see if it is holding. I've had a lower respiratory infection off and on for a month now. It's nerve wracking because...
I am 6 months post-op on a Nissen (LPR, medium hernia). I am still having aching pain in my upper abdomen and it worries me. The pain not a result of swallowing, esophageal spasms or meal size. It...
Simon, I've had a very hard time with my Nissen fundoplication as well. Six months later, I still have a lot of pain. I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in 1998. It's not possible that that it's a...
I have Crohn's and my lungs are healing S-L-O-W L-Y after being a mess for over three years. My doctors had no clue why I was having such a hard time with they said was newly diagnosed asthma and a...
Hi. I posted to this board right before my Nissen fundoplication three months months ago. Everything went pretty smoothly because I knew what to expect as a result of reading this forum. My doctor...
Thanks for all the replies. What a kind group of people you are. My chest tightness decided to go away today, for which I am very grateful. Liz: I did try the PPI's. They didn't really do much for...
My surgery is Friday and I'm strangely looking forward to it. I've been suffering from what my doctors thought was severe adult onset asthma and constant respiratory infections for over three years...
Humira has helped me a lot. The side effects have been almost non-existent - so far not nearly as many respiratory infections as I used to get on the Remicade (started Humira in Nov. 09). The only...
Sometimes I think the fear, anxiety and loss of control over my own body/my own fate is the worst part of the disease. It's simply a battle we cannot win or reason our way out of. Forgiving myself...
I'm having some hip pain, too. I can't take Advil or any kind of NSAID without activating the "Crohn's Launch System" in a major way - they have flared me too many times in the past to even consider...
I've never had much luck with probiotics. I get more help from a daily breakfast of yogurt. For almost two years, I've been eating Wallaby Lowfat Vanilla yogurt and it helps tremendously (I was able...
I started Humira in mid-November. It's helped tremendously with the Crohn's but each injection site, from the pen or the syringe, causes what starts as a little rash a few days or weeks later. It...
I've found that recumbent stationary bikes put the least amount of stress on my joints....
I experienced the same slowing of metabolism while on Remicade. Very frustrating. But since it was the only drug that made me have close to a normal life I think it was a good call to take the drug....
I don't know...my last colonoscopy I tried to go with sedation rather than anesthesia, but they knocked me out with anesthesia because of all the screaming (I'm quite the stoic, tough it out...
Hi. I also experienced a great deal of hair loss after I went off the birth control pills. It could just be hormonal fluctuations. My hair loss stopped after two months. Sometimes it takes awhile to...
In response to beave: The sinus infections are bacterial. Rarely experienced lung involvement. I believe I took 13 courses of antibiotics in the 9 months...Levaquin the most often, amoxicillin,...
Hello. I'm new around here. I've been taking Remicade for the past seven years. It has treated me quite well on the Crohn's front. However, I've had frequent, misery-inducing respiratory infections...