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    Anyone take ginger pills?

    I know when I experience discomfort, my go to pill is ginger pills!! I take two of them when I feel I need. There is no better feeling for me to feel that pill dissolve and give me a slight burning feeling and then.....the best relaxing feeling ever! How many others use ginger?
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    Sticky What to expect after surgery

    I was under the impression, if you get the surgery then you are Crohns or UC free. Hm. Well this has me rethinking that surgery then...I mean, if I need it then obviously I will but...Damn.
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    Sticky What to expect after surgery

    I don't mean to have this sound stupid or anything...but...If you still have flare ups what is the reason for the surgery then? Are the flare ups still painful? Bloody? often?
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    Sticky What to expect after surgery

    Would you say the surgery is the worse case scenario? At first, I refused to ever have this...Being 13 and even considering having a bag...No way! How would you be intimate with someone? You would be so self conscious...Now at 30..I don't care. I want my life back. The life I never really got to...
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    15+ years of Ulcerative colitis and I am finally taking a stand

    Hello everyone.. It was October 11th, 1998 when I was first diagnosed. I was 13 (I think)..I felt like I was a test patient for the medical college here as I was misdiagnosed a few times. Medications they were giving me caused me to have Pancrentitis (spelling). It sucked! I was in remission...
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