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My 18 year old son was diagnosed with active Crohn's in November. He is on Asacol, Aciphex and predisone. He started out on 40mg of the steroids and has got down to 10mg this week. He has started feeling like his body is on fire from hot flashes every couple of minutes. Is this normal? We are...

My son has gastritis and active Crohns and takes Aciphex for the gastritis and Asacol and prednisone for the Crohn's and does well with it. Not sure if they have tried the Asacol or Aciphex for you.

My son was just diagnosed with Crohn's and has pain in his lower right quadrant and in the stomach area with a flare up. He had a little pain every few days in b/w flare ups.

From what they told my son you are to take all of it. He is 18 and did fine with his. He also had an Endoscopy too.

Well we took my son to the dr today and he said he had moderate Crohn's disease. He put him on Prednisone 40 mgs, Cipro 500mg twice a day, and Asacol 800 mg twice a day. He said he wants to get on it hard to see if he can get him in remission in a couple of months. I thought he had quit smoking...

Sorry I didn't give much detail. All I really know right now is he has active colitis which she said was Crohn's disease. I know it is in the lower part of his small intestine. I don't exactly know what that region or name really is but will tomorrow. Some of you may know. He also has gastritis...

Hi everyone, my name is Tara and my 18 year old son was just diagnosed with Crohn's disease. I hope you all don't mind me joining you all for him. You all know how males are. We are going back to the dr tomorrow to discuss options. Can anyone tell me any of those options and the do's/don'ts to...