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Recent content by Jyeager

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    Remicade and still flare ups please help

    Hi, please help i want to give up on life and everything so bad i cant take it. Im receiving 5mg per kg remicade every 8 weeks and have been for a year now. I still have inflamation in my intestines and some days its so bad i cant stand it. It takes forever to see my GI doctor and nothing...
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    Question about tests

    Okay i have crohns disease, i had a bowel resectioning in 2010 and am currently on remicade, in the past few years i have had many many CT scans, like 20+, so far i havent had any side effects from it but i was ignorant of the long term risks, how can the doctor and the hospital not catch that...
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    Whats wrong with me? Pain in Lower Back and Left Leg with Hypersensitive Skin

    Okay i have crohns, and am currently on remicade every 8 weeks. All of the sudden the past few days i have been experience incredible muscle pain in my left leg and lower back, and whats worse is the skin is hypersensitive, even touching it or sitting is incredibly painful. Theres no rash but im...
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    Possible emergency please help!

    Ok i have dull pain in my abdomen that will suddenly become intense; i have had 2 rounds of remicade so far and idk whats goin on with my gut. I went to the ER (probably shoulda picked a better hospital) n the doctor said it sounded like my gall bladder shot me up with pain meds gave me a...
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    Absolutely out of ideas..

    Ok i have had crohns disease for about 8 or 9 years now, today i had a colonoscopy aand everything low checked out ok (started remicade several months ago) but everytime i have to have a bowel movement, i HAVE to go right away. If i attempt to hold it at all i will have excruciating lower...
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    Anyone else feel hopeless?

    Ive had crohns disease for 7 years now and for the past 2 or 3 years nothing seems to work. Ive been on numerous medications and steroids, been in and out of hospitald and even had a bowel resectioning, nothing anymore seems to work; i recently have been put on remicade and my white blood count...
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    Excruciating spasms of pain in my lower abdomen

    Ok so my 2nd remicade infusion is in two weeks, but the past few days have been miserable. I have a problem lately where if i get the urge to have a bowel movement or pass gas then i have to go/pass IMMEDIATELY. If i dont then i get EXCRUCIATING spasms of pain in my lower abdomen through my...
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    Remicade answers PLEASE

    Ok so i had a bowel resectioning done a year ago. I was great until recently, i started having pain in my gall bladder region (ive only had active chrons in my illeum and small bowel). It took months and a lot of pestering my G.I. and a recent stay in the hospital to find i have "new disease"...
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    My chrons

    Ok here it is. I was diagnosed with chrons disease when i was 16. Im 23 now. Last year i had a bowel resectioning done but one year later its active and flaring up again. No medicine seems to work; i took remicaid treatments but it was so active i needed surgery for all the scarred tissue, hell...
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