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Recent content by Chelsey79

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    Remicade hair loss?

    My GI swears remicade doesn't make your hair fall out but I have lost half my hair with just the loading doses. It falls out daily not in bunches but is drastically thinning by the day. Has anyone had hair loss with it ? I noticed it thinning 14 days after starting this med. I just had my...
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    Pregnancy Prednisone abscesss and Drain

    It has been a very long time since I posted on here. For the last three years I have been on cimzia shots and the worked great up until February 2016. I have crohns in my terminal ileum and in February everything just stopped working. I I went from having 6 loose bowel movements a day to 0 for a...
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    Thought for today! Does crohns affect dental problems??

    When I started having extremely bad flares a year and a half ago I had also learned that I was having really bad dental issues for the first time ever. At the time I attributed it to me just having a baby, thinking after breastfeeding I had lost my calcium. I had 3 root canals 4 crowns and still...
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    Cimzia questions

    Any questions I should ask my nurse before this first injection? Starting to feel the anxiety. My shot is at ten ;/ please pray for me and wish me luck
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    Azathioprine Anxiety

    I am starting Imuran tomorrow and was just wondering if I should expect anything after taking it. My doctor told me that it will take about 2 months to start taking effect. I read through the side effects list for the third or fourth time and I just don't know what to expect . Any advice?
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    New dual treatment plan

    My colonoscopy came back unimproved after 6 months of humira . Today my doctor decided upon cimzia and Imuran as my next course of treatment. She was extremely through explaining side effects and I am having lab work done now to assure that I am elligible for the Imuran. She said Imuran takes 3...
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    Twilight sedation for colonoscopy

    I called a week ago to make sure I was going to be completely asleep for my colonoscopy to ease anxiety and the nurse informed me that I would be. I get here after doing my prep and they tell me it's twilight?!?!? Hello I would like to be completely asleep. I have really bad anxiety. Any advice
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    I am dying drinking this stuff! MoviPrep

    I thought My last prep was awful. This is insane how nauseous I am..my last colonoscopy I drank three glasses of miralax and took 4 laxitives and was perfect. I can barely keep this down.
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    Is anyone else sick of colonoscopys!

    Yes i am again one week away from starting my prep for what will be my third colonoscopy. Although i may be a bit of a "drama queen" i definitely would not wish this test on my worst enemy. Having this one next tuesday to determine what route to take with treatment of my Crohns. Currently i am...
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    First Trip To Mayo Clinic

    After going through 4 doctors since my diagnosis last February at the Bourland Groover Clinic Jacksonville FLorida i gave up and decided to try another option. Today was my first trip to Mayo Clinic Jax Fl. I am currently on Humira 40 mg every 15 days. The Humira worked great for about a month...
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    Day three in the hospital ;(

    Well this all started last Saturday night. Ive had crohns since febuary and never had a flare. So late that night I woke up with terrible pain ( never woke up to pain before ever) in the upper part of my abdomen. Sunday morning the pain continued. (Easter) and I noticed I wasn't hungry from it...
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    First real flare up

    The pain is terrible. Can't sleep or get comfortable at all. Trying not to eat because I just want it to go away. My dr is no help. Isn't in the office today and apparently there is no nurse on call ? Retards. Being so new to this I never have had a full fledged flare like this one. Ice had pain...
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    New to crohns

    Hey my name is chelsey and I was recently diagnosed with crohns disease this past month. Two years ago I saw a gi doctor for some right lower quadrant pain and he informed me at 18 that I had what seemed to be crohns disease. We did a colonoscopy( worst experience ever) and concluded that I...
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