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    SOS...first bad flare in years....i'm lost

    Hello old and new pals. I was dx'ed with CD in 2008 and haunted the forum a lot for a few years while i learned to manage my disease. Fast forward past several years of remission and now I am sick again. I don't know if I need advice or a hug or what...this is awful! I had a baby in...
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    So very sick of being sick

    so very sick of being sick Happy I was, living in Remission City....for like half a minute. So during my flare, it was rare that I had nausea, the symptoms were anal/rectal/abdominal pain. NOW for the last two weeks, a new thing....can't hardly eat, headaches, nausea, dizziness, flash fevers...
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    Crohn's! Dammit

    My 2.75 year old daughter decided today that she wanted to go to the splash park. She packed her backpack and brought me the sunscreen! My wonderful husband took her and I'm stuck at home because I've been puking and it's 103 degrees outside! RRRRRR! I took out my rage on sweeping the house and...
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    Me and azathioprine//politics of second opinions

    me and azathioprine//politics of second opinions it's new meds day and i'm really nervous. lialda - 2.4 mg azathioprine 100mg eek! on top of celexa and loestrin, both of which i have been on forever. i had been on asacol 2400 mg and it did nada. i probably missed some doses but took enough...
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    Working Crohny Girl

    So, I'm a working mom and i sit all day at work on the phone and computer. It's high stress (financial services) and I will sometimes work 12 plus hour days. I get up and walk when I can but right now I have a fistula and SITTING FREAKING HURTS. Anyone else come to a solution for this? Been...
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    2 years in, lots of questions

    so, i was dx'ed with CD two years ago, been on asacol 2400mg, cant really say it helps. have fissure and internal hemorrhoids and now a really spectacular external one (i named him Eugene.) i've been walking round the house with an icepack stuck down my shorts. now im having a flare up and with...
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