Hi guys, I've been gone a long time because there really wasn't much to say until recently when failing treatments pretty much said resection. My resection was on Oct 11th, and apparently we made the...
5mg every 7 days. The leg is actually an ongoing issue. It started after my first taper finished in 2012. I had gained a lot of weight too, but I've had numerous ultrasounds done and there has never...
Hi folks, it's been awhile. I had been dealing with increasingly worse reactions during my Remicade infusion. In late August (right before my Remicade was due) a flare put me in the hospital for 4...
I was going to talk to him even before this latest flare up. I don't like the reactions and now that it seems to wear off after a month that just makes it easier. I was allergic to imuran so I...
So a bit of history. I've been on a double dose of Remicade for a little over a year. Started getting infusion reactions that slowly got worse, but we stuck with it. Was pre-medded with solu-medrol...
I've been off prednisone for years luckily. Though after the reactions started he wanted me to take it the day before, of, and after my infusion (20mg) it didn't seem to help with the reaction. I...
Hi all, dropping in from lurking to talk about a couple of things that are bugging me. Firstly, I'm in the midst of a flare, I'm also finishing up amoxicillin from a suspected infection. My bowels...
They didn't go into details... I should have asked, but they said everything is fine. In the past they've told me if my WBC was elevated, and when I was in the ER with sepsis my WBC was 12000 I...
I felt perfectly normal yesterday but last night I fell asleep in front of a fan uncovered, I woke up probably an hour later with shaking chills and feeling very warm, but didn't have a fever. Went...
This has happened to me the past 2-3 infusions. First off I'll stay that I'm morbidly obese (up to 374, ugh) and for the past 3 years I've had pretty bad edema in the affected leg (my right leg). The...
Personally mine was triggered after my diagnosis of Crohn's Disease in 2011. I had spent a month prior to the diagnosis feeling sick but all initial tests didn't reveal anything. My anxiety had...
I haven't been sick at all. I do have a problem tooth that had recently become infected again. I was taking penicillin already when they found it. It is possible that this is a result of having...
So about 4am this morning I jolted awake in serious pain, I'd been having an issue with a pulled muscle on my left side that seemed to move around where it hurt, but also hurt to breathe in. This...
Nope, after getting Crohn's my GI Doc said I couldn't, apparently during my colo/endo that confirmed the CD they also found ulcers in my duodenum, caused by NSAID use. I wish I could sometimes but it...
I've been using heat on it. I've also used Icy Hot, which I typically use for a pulled muscle. I was able to get into my Doctor today and she agrees that it is likely musculoskeletal. I've had pulled...
I first noticed it a couple weeks ago, I pulled a muscle doing something. I have no idea what, only that it started hurting, in my upper left chest near the nipple. Originally it only hurt when I...
After having been diagnosed with Crohn's Disease 3 years ago, and Anxiety / Panic Disorder immediately after I can say based on experience stress / anxiety can easily affect your digestive system. I...
I know exactly when mine started, why, and what triggers it. I was very laid back until I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in June 2011. But it started a month before that when I had a panic attack...
Well after a great game of pimg-pong between my dentist, the oral surgeon doing my extraction next month and my GI office I was prescribed Amoxicillin, which I have zero trouble. Glad I dodged that...
So I have a quite painful toothache. It originally flared up a couple months ago, so I went to the dentist. -rays showed that this particular tooth didn't have an infection but a different one did....
Even as I fight my own battle with anxiety I come here and am reminded that there are others fighting much greater battles. I know she has given me comfort even when she was dealing with the news no...
I have two teeth sheared off at the gumline, and a third one that had a cavity and was filled but has since broken off a bit. I need to have all 3 extracted but my appointment on Friday quickly...
I remember having similar issues when increasing Zoloft. I just rode it out and eventually I started feeling great again. I can't really give a time frame, everyone is different but with most SSRI's...
I've been on Remicade since Nov. 2011. I didn't noticed how well it worked until April 2012 when I was able to successfully taper off of Prednisone. I started feeling great, almost normal....
How long / what dose are you on? I started Zoloft the first time in 2011, I remember the side effects being rough but I did come out of it and I felt great for quite awhile. So great that I decided...
Yes, and I experienced it just a few months ago. Anxiety can cause those muscles to contract, creating the lump feeling. Reflux can also irritate that area. Anxiety meds are pretty paradoxical in...
I'm going through the exact same thing. Started out on 50mg Zoloft for two weeks, then upped to 100. Almost immediately after I developed daily tension headaches starting in my neck. I also got sick...
I recently developed this constant neck pain, right at the base of the skull. Sometimes I could feel the tension down to my shoulders, and sometimes I'll get a tension headache. I'll feel a bit...
I'm only 35, and sometimes I think about it too. Three years ago, shortly after I was diagnosed with Crohn's I was put on a med that made me deathly ill. Septic Shock, Kidney failure, my troponin...
It was D, although technically it was just the barium....
Right before I was diagnosed with Crohn's I was in the hospital, on a liquid diet and doing a colonoscopy prep. Had the colonoscopy done, saw the pictures and the words from the Dr. Got back up to my...
So I'm sick, and ever since my sepsis / pancreatitis scare 3 years ago my mind tends to think it will happen again. Even though I rationally explain to myself it's just a simple cold, my wife was...
There is part of your answer. When I have rough times I tend to wake up and immediately have symptoms, simply because my mind is worried about how the day will play out it mistakes it for a threat...
I just started Zoloft two weeks ago, at 50mg. I bump up to 100mg tomorrow. I also started Clonazepam 1mg 3 times a day at the same time. Lately I've been having a lot of tension in my neck near the...
I just went through the same thing. I was on 1mg Xanax 3 times a day. A month I started having extremely bad and constant anxiety along with physical symptoms. It was probably med related (Lexapro)....
I'm very sorry that you are going through this. It certainly is distressing. I've been in the exact same situation 3 years ago. What you are feeling is completely normal for someone who is anxious...
Yeah it looks nasty up there. Hopefully the storm decides to lighten up a bit....
I usually have triggers for my health anxiety / hypochondira. I have Crohn's Disease so that doesn't really help. But when I think something is wrong I tend to magnify it unnecessarily to a point...
How many Remicade doses have you had? I started Remicade in Nov 2011, 6 months after being diagnosed. I didn't really notice how well I felt until I finally weaned off prednisone in April 2012. I had...
I live in the KC area myself, and as a kid I was extremely scared of storms. Every time they put out a watch I'd get scared. Watching the dark clouds roll in, I always thought there'd be a tornado in...
Sometimes no matter how many times a Doctor tells us we don't have something our brain can't quite accept that. So what you are feeling is a perfectly normal (although not pleasant) reaction to...
Well if I had the choice I wouldn't take them. I had gotten to a point where the only anxiety med I was on was Xanax as needed, and that was once or twice a week. But since about March and especially...
I've been "on" Xanax since my Crohn's diagnosis 3 years ago. Currently at 3mg a day for maybe the last 2 months. But before that I was rarely taking it since I was doing so well. After my past week...
I see my Psych Tuesday but I'm beginning to think that maybe me and Lexapro don't get along. Going to ask to go on Zoloft. It was my original med and the only reason I weaned off of it was because I...
I called him yesterday and he didn't seem to think so. So it just makes me feel crazier, all I know is everything started 6 days after going up on the Remicade and Lexapro. The Lexapro can also cause...
I've been on Remi for 2.5 years, this was my first double dose infusion. I was only taking Xanax as needed back in March, then started Mirtazapine 15. Went up to 30 at some point, didn't like it, so...
Well it's almost 4 now and the burning came back. Sweaty, some chest / stomach pain. I've broken my brain or something because these symptoms seem to strike at the same time every day and usually let...
Today. Mainly headache, some nausea. had some nice chest pain earlier but it went away. I'm sure I'm dealing with reflux since I'm under all this stress, I know I felt it yesterday. So far no burning...
I don't know if you've read any of my posts lately but I'm going through a lot of what you are, I started Lexapro 10 in April or May I think, and then my doc upped it to 20 on the 10th. I feel like...
Doing my best. At the moment I'm having a burning in both upper arms and across my stomach... really hard to ignore. Still feeling like its not anxiety. Ugh. Stupid brain......