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sometimes it goes better. I am 58 year old male first started having symptoms aged 54. Started with urinary urgency and strong stomache pains..so bad I had three days and nights with no sleep and had to be sedated. Took 6 months to get a diagnosis of Crohn's. Put up with bouts of pain and...

jess..pleased to here the d only lasted 2 weeks..i'll be counting the days after my op..hope the wound is healing well now and life getting back on an even keel...

Angrystomache, Yeah I am in similar situation except that I have pain daily and have been steadily loosing weight for 4 years.about to have resection in the next few weeks. I think the bottom liner is how much worse emergency surgery is than pre planned...open not laparascopic and maybe six...

Crohn's 11...yeah some of us are not the stereotype- I have illeal CD - which is very common - but I have C with it not D..I haveo use osmotics to keep things moving and supposedly to reduce the pain of stuff moving through my 2 strictures in the ileum. I have also had regular bouts of...

b12 I have seen some people on here that use o t c sublingual tablets ( think that meansunder the tounge..easier and cheaper than injections.

Yes, I understand as a Mom it must have been hard for you but the lovely thing about that is it tells you how much he loves you and missed you. I recently had a e-mail from my 24 year old youngest son in reply to my mail to him about being there for his Mom when I am in hospital ...he signed it...

Ah actually I think the lack of planning is more than outweighed by the blissful ignorance and therefore no anxiety beforehand :-)

Oh right - having gone form 14.5 stone to 13 in 3 years I would be hoping to get back to about 14 in the long run- once I start eating well again.

Jess, if you are grazing all the time are you putting weight back on now?

Yeah I guess I have to realise that I am getting to the point where there is no alternative, I have dropped from 14 1/2 stone to 13 over 3 years and being 6 foot 3 tall 14 stone was thin. Guess I'm going to starve to death if I don't have the surgery. RR

I see somewhere else you recommending vit b12 for exhaustion etc- is this something one needs to consider even before surgery..can inflammation be blocking absorption?

Fistula...possibly but would that not show on my recent MRI scan? surely they check crohn's patients for all those kinds of things when they scan their strictures...

Jess If you were throwing up beforehand is that because you had strictures? My situation is being complicated by urinary urgency issues- which is very distressing and causing me to struggle to get much sleep. I have struggled to get any of the doctors...GP/ Gastro consultant/ surgeon to...

Yeah , I've had sweat on pred also. Should reduce as you taper!

Does anyone know what length of resection is enough to cause permamanet Diarrhea or is it utterlyt different for diff people?

craiggus.. I'd be interested if you could post your meds and foods and what you do for travelling. I am facing resection of two strictures in the ileum and they may well take the valve al bit of the colon- so I am petrified of swapping C and pain for Diarrhea. thanks

I'm newbie facing first surgery for two strictures suffered 4 yesrs of constipation etc am in inflammatory remission on AZATHIOPRINE but need surgery for pain of food going through strictures ....let me know if you had this done and were really glad you did...

I don't understand how shoregirl33 can be told her strictures will worsen over time if she has no inflammation...how does the intestine go on getting narrower of there is no inflammation and healing to do more scarring?

And yes the surgeon said he has done hundreds of these and after first resection you should not have any permanent D problem. hope you are continuing to improve and wound healing ok now.

jess - your question about active crohn's....well i guess they are not sure..if i have vistually zero inlamation so am in remission all they can see on a scan is what is fibrotic ie thick walled..i guess that is why he wont commit to saving the valve as he will only beable to tell what is...