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Recent content by Miki

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    Asymptomatic Crohn

    Hello everyone. I am 26 years old and have had Crohn's since I was 11. I used to manage my disease relatively well until early 2008. After ignoring my symptoms and fever for 4 months an abscess formed in my pelvis along with serious intestinal inflammation. I ended up having right hemicolectomy...
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    Imuran study

    Hello, can somebody interpret this study: http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD000545/azathioprine-or-6-mercaptopurine-for-the-treatment-of-active-crohns-disease , especially this sentence: "Azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine were found to be no more effective than placebo (fake medicine) for...
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    Regular check-ups or Imuran?

    Hello everyone. I am 26 years old and have had Crohn's since I was 11. I used to manage my disease relatively well until early 2008. After ignoring my symptoms and fever for 4 months an abscess formed in my pelvis along with serious intestinal inflammation. I ended up having right hemicolectomy...
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    CONFUSED (and scared): Ocult bleeding in stool, NO symptoms and NORMAL blood work!?

    Hi everyone, I am 25 years old and have had Crohn's since I was about 10. I've had a resection done 4 years ago where terminal ileum and a bit of colon was removed (about 1 meter altogether). I have been in remission ever since, except that this year a very severe anemia occurred and it had...
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    Severe anemia - causes

    Hello, I am 25 years old and have had Crohn's disease since I was about 10. I've had a resection done 4 years ago where terminal ileum and a bit of colon was removed (about 1 meter altogether). Since then I haven't had any symptoms of disease coming back. I've been on Pentasa, and for a year no...
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