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I've started asking them to do it in my inner elbow (like where they take blood) OR in my lower arm (vs my hand) --- and they have done that for me in the past!

Thanks Cat-a-Tonic....GI knows! :( I just saw him yesterday and he told them to schedule me ASAP for the scope. He wants to catch me in an active bleed to find the exact spot of my issues. I'm just scared.

Ugh, I have had several colonoscopies in the past, but this is the first time I will have one while in a flare. I have been bleeding for 3 days. I am on liquids now, and don't drink my first prep for another 6 hours. (I have had two Gatorade drinks this morning and I am already in...

yup, it does taste nasty. sorry!!

Sorry for the (really) late reply but I haven't been on the forum in a while. My hip and back pain were getting bad so I got a cortisone injection about 5 or 6 weeks ago. It really helped....and then, I've started having a flare in the past 2 weeks. Colonoscopy on Thursday, so we'll see...

First one is always scary, but please know it's super easy!! The worst part for you was the prep today!! Best of luck Miss Leopard!

Thank you Ron. I swear I just had a colonoscopy last year, but it was 2013. Time flies!

Tomorrow I prep using prepopik. This is my first time using this one. The medical asst said it tastes like Tang. Any suggestions or comments for me!?

This is ALWAYS my problem. The colonoscopy is like 5 weeks AFTER the flare/bleeding! And I have had 7 colonoscopies and still have "questionable Crohn's" I feel ya. However, I was bleeding the past two days and he's getting me in for a scope on Thursday! He wants to get a GOOD/recent view...

Colonoscopy (yet again), Thursday 6:30am

TennyYogini, What did you decide to do? I plan to talk to my dr about this drug today. I have had bleeding for two days :(

I had a jump in my liver enzymes recently, and I am not on Rx drugs. I think it's common. Mine went back down on its own. Not sure why it spiked.

I know I am replying to an old post, but maybe it can help someone out down the road. I have had "questionable Crohn's" for 20 years. Yesterday was the worst ever! I went to see a movie with my friends and hate several handfuls of popcorn on an empty stomach. A few hours later, I was...

I can't figure it out either! Recently, I had some bleeding for a week and the doctor said, "IBS, not IBD". Well I was always told IBS involved no bleeding!?!

Yup! Me too. I've had five or six Gastro doctors in the last 22 years. Two said Crohns, two say IBS the other and insure. Every time I do a colonoscopy I get different results. So frustrating.

Fortunately, mine only lasted about 12 hours.

It's treated almost the same way you would treat Gerd does a.but you have to double the medicine. For example I would take to preface it's a day as it's more severe than regular acid reflux.

About 12 years ago, I was SURE I was having allergy problems. My throat kept feeling weird and closing up. Long story short, I have a special kind of GERD called laryngopharyngeal reflux, sometimes called ''silent reflux.

New studies show that oral contraceptive pill use is associated with localized decreases in cortical thickness and may make women more vulnerable to Crohn's disease with extended use and a family history of the disease. This article originally appeared in this issue of the WSR: 2015-04-15...

Yikes and now diarrheal 💩💩💩