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Hi Sugar My consultant did suggest admitting me last week and putting me on IV steroids but I thought that maybe I was not giving them enough of time to work.

Hi Kev yes i get very pale, my friends and family say so. I am going to ring the consultant today because I just don't think that I can go on. I am not able to perform at work because I have no energy. That is not good when you a teacher and trying to motivate your students everyday and...

So glad you have decided to go to that, that would defiinitely be a great step. Don't worry about the ages cos I find in these meetings there tend to be different people aswell so just because there might not be somebody of a similar age this time, there might be the next time. Let us know how...

Hi guys I was recently put on steroids again 2 weeks ago because my crohn's is active and am bleeding alot - everytime i have a BM. I am on 2g of pentasa twice a day also. My consultant is still trying to avoid putting me on other meds such as humira or infleximab treatment. But I am still...

Hi Liam Did you check to see if there was a IBD support group in the area, might be worth ringing up the health board or whatever to find out? We have some in Ireland.

Hi guys Just back from the interview - no problems thank god. Had toast and banana in the morning. Had the usual running to the toilet so took the imodium and thank god it worked. So relieved! And the interview did not go half bad either so fingers crossed :)

Thanks Samboi :)

Hope you get sorted :) try a few different things anyway. Take one day at a time. This is all we can do really and spoil yourself a little. Try and do one thing everyday that makes you happy. That is what i was told to do, and if you enjoy getting out amongst nature do that, i also find that...

Thanks for all the advice :) The interview is tomorrow morning so I will eat only a banana for breakfast and take some immodium, and make sure I arrive a early for to use the restroom and hopefully that should be enough to see me through. Also I think I will get up early as i find I do most of...

Hi Liam I think alot of us has felt like this at one point or another. i have rang in sick more times in the last 6 months then I have in the last 8 years all because of the fear of not having a bathroom near by if i was having a bad day. It is a bit of a vicious circle. We want to get out...

Hi all Just wondering if anybody has ever been so worried about having to go to the toilet during an interview that they don't want to go at all! I have a really important job interview this week, but i am also having a bad flare with the last 2 months. A lot of running to the toilet, the...

I work as a teacher - it is generally okay but when having a flare it is not the idealist of jobs, i am lucky at the moment as i teach adults, but if i was teaching teenagers i would not be able to leave the room to go to the toilet!

oh and the funniest thing was apparently I tolerated the procedure well!:wink:

Hi all well I am over my colonoscopy experience and got my results today. Said that mucosa in rectum and signmoid colon was congested and erythematous.:shifty: Now I really don't have a clue what that means so I looked up internet and it said increased redness and swelling. It also said left...

Now that I think about it going off the meds was probably a bad idea. I guess I thought they would not see exactly where the problem was coming from because I bleed nearly everyday and I just wanted them to see for once and for all where the blood was coming from because they always asking me...

:ybiggrin: haha. I can see how that could have been read alright! I am on pentasa. He put me on predfoam aswell since colonoscopy. He has tried me on other meds but I didn't respond well to them. Don't really respond well to steroids either.

Yep I can relate to this also. Does it happen when you have not eaten for a few hours? Because that is when it happens to me.

Hi Matth3w, I don't really know if it could be the biopsy but I know from my own experience that anytime I take steroidal ememas such as predfoam, I am fine when I take them but the very minute I come back off of them the bleeding starts again. This might be what is happening to your wife.

Good luck :-)

Thanks for all the replies! I don't feel so bad now. Grant, I haven't had surgery in my bowl yet thank god. My consultant has been slow to go down that route with me yet. Hopefully the pain will have been worth it if they have prescribed the right dose of meds. Just can't understand how...