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I just recently read on another Crohns website about a link between arthritis and Crohns. My medication was recently changed from Sulfasalazine to Apriso. Seemed to help until I noticed my hands were tingling and swollen in the mornings and throughout the day more frequently than usual. I had...

My Crohns began shortly after I started taking birth control pills but I have to say I also had major stress at my job that year. I agree it lays dormant and just takes one trigger to bring it out. Kinda like cancer :(

I was diagnosed with Crohns in 1984 (I had never even heard of it!) Ended up in the E.R. with what they thought was an appendicitis and turned out to be a bowel perforation. 4 hours and 12 in of bowel removal later, I was informed that my life was about to change drastically. I was placed on...

Hey Parks5, I have had Crohns for 27 years now and when I was first diagnosed, I had labial swelling on one side that occured twice. Both times I had to have it lanced because the pain was unbearable. So I empathize with you. I did have a fistula which healed after I decided to try using...