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Hello I am a male in my 30’s and I am on methotraxate from past 1 year. How early we need to stop the medication when you are planning for a baby? My doctor suggested 3 months is enough but I would like to hear real experiences. Thanks

Thanks for your replies. My case is different ever since I was diagnosed with crohns the disease was so aggressive with me. Recently I been to a surgery also. By looking at all these I just pray no other kid will not go through this.

With a heavy heart I am writing this post. I am a male in my 30's and I was diagnosed with crohns in 2016 since then my life is very uncertain. We only have one kid born in 2018. My wife is more interested to have second kid but I really scared about this IBD genetics since I heard from the...

Hi all, I need to carry Humira during my international travel, humira sent me a kit to use it for travel but that kit only with hold coolness upto 8 hours but my journey is overall 36 hours. Humira is recommending me to ask the cabin crew to keep the medication in the fridge once I onboard the...

I am not really sure if high temp can trigger inflammation because i was living in a very cold place when crohns was triggered for me but I what I heard and experienced is having cold showers helps in reducing symptoms

Hey I am also in same situation. Whatever I eat I don't see any symptoms upfront but some how I am still getting inflamtion and couldn't figure out how to control it. Please let me know if you find any solution. Thanks in advance

Hi Everyone, I would like to share my first robotic colon surgery experience as I was so panic before Day before I had to empty my stomach by fasting and using dulclolax powder On the day of surgery Admitted 5:30AM Surgery started 7:30 Surgery done around 11:00 (9 inches colon was removed)...

I am also in the same boat tried protien shakes and heavy meals still no growth

Yes Lisa it's completely make sense but still my mind couldn't digest about the surgery that's coming up. I am still looking for alternatives😥 small hope

Same thing with me I stopped meat for one year assuming meat is the big culprit but my symptoms came back within an year when I was not on medicine

I don't have any symptoms with the structure but I can feel at that spot it's trying hard to digest and pass the food. I usually go for remicade every 4 weeks but when I get late around 6th week I get all my symptoms back majorly chills and diarrhea

Hi everyone, how can I figure out foods thats making my bowel worse and raising inflammation because every food I eat I don't see any issue including dairy and wheat as long as I am on the medicine. I see most of people complaining about the foods that can trigger symptoms in them how do you...

I am not able to figure out what foods are triggering me the symptoms because the symptoms are not showing up on the same day. How are you guys figuring it out those specific foods are harming you?

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Hi all, I am on highest dosage of remicade which is 10mg/kg every 4 weeks. I was not into remission but it was keeping all my symptoms under control. Now my insurance denied 4 weeks infusions by seeing my remicade levels are normal. I am on my 6th week and had all my symptoms back. Ery badly...

@india_sanjay my only advice is keep the inflammation under control. Ever since I was diagnosed it keeps progressing for me even though I am on biologicals

Hi @india_sanjay I am still in US. In 2020 I was sick and went to India tried one month with just some healthy diet to recover without any medication as an experiment but my symptoms didn't get better until they started biologics so there is no proof that I can survive with just some healthy...

Hope you all doing good. I live in US and I am planning to travel my home country for a long vacation which is about 3 to 4 months. Currently I am on hichest dose of Remicade for every 4 weeks. In my country Remicade is way expensive to buy. Are there anyways to get it through shipment from here...

Register in janssencare path they usually support your copay for Remicade