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I think it's pretty serious for me. I am getting engaged and I have mentioned bloating and bathroom trips. But what I am scared of the most is farting, whether it is just sometimes explosive or smelly. I have no idea how to talk about it and worst how to live with it (This would be my first...

I had been on Aza for five years until I had a perforation. After my surgery (2 years ago) my GI told me to stop taking Aza and put me on prednisone instead. At the same time another colleague of his recommended Remicade instead of prednisone, but my GI did it his way. Well I just moved to...

From my "personal" experience anxiety does cause Crohn's. I had a very stressful time in high school which I believe led to my Crohn's. The cause of anxiety was simple: I just could not make any freinds, when I reached 15. I vividly remember wandering in the back yard by myself while others were...

I'm sorry to hear about what you went through. I live in Iran, and Humira is being prescribed quite recently for Crohn's. The story of insurance is different here; some say 90% and some say 70% of the expense is covered by insurance (as long as you have a job.) Actually you have frightened me...

I'm 30 years old and the biologics lose effect say in 5 or at best 10 years. What bugs me is I don't know what to do next. If I knew I would die at 40, it'd be okay. But I'm supposed to live another 20 years from then. Besides, they are expensive and I'm not sure I will have the same job and...

I have been experiencing the very same symptoms of "Constipated Diarrhea" for two months now. Sometimes the urge for BM wakes me up, I go to toilet, go back to bed, and five minutes later I have to go to toilet again! This pattern may be repeated 3 times every morning. One morning during this...

Hi, I had a perforation (in ileum termunal) on the July of 2014 and six months later, while I seemed to be in remission after the surgery, I had a flare-up which led to bleeding in three points. As the location of pain felt the same locatiin if the surgery and I suspected there was sth wring...

Hi Scottsma, I've had intermittent bleeding since 3 weeks ago. 3 or 4 days I'm ok, then I feel pain in the site of earlier bleeding (happened 2 months ago) and I will be dizzy and out of breath (presumably the signs of bleeding) for 2 or 3 days. I feel helpless as I don't know when it's going to...

Although different patients experience different conditions, from my own experience you will hopefully go into remission for a long time. In my both last cases of being on prednisone, I went into remission for six years each time. I may have run out of my options, since during the 2nd round of...

Hi Scottsma, it's somehow odd to me, since I've had a much worse inflammation than this in 2008 and been on pred then and there was no flare. I had also been on pred in 2002 when diagnosed first and there was no problem then, either. I don't know why this third time has got so complicated. Maybe...

You're right about librium, UnXmas; as far as I remember its best use is for acute stress reduction for a period of a month. Given my probably ongoing, though minor, bleeding, I think this tranquilizer is what I need right now. Actually too much was going on in my head that I forgot to discuss...

During the past 10 days, I seemed to have bleeding (again), so the exercise is off the table :( My doctor told me like before that "all is in your head" and prescribed chlorodiazoproxide for that, and insomnia. I asked him that pred supposed to make me better soon, and he told that Crohn's has...

UnXmas, Well, I've been with this doctor during Crohn's journey for 13 years now, and somehow I trust him so much that I'veI hardly found a 2nd opinion necessary. He once offered me to switch from Nortriptyline to Citalopram, but I felt awfully dizzy and turned back to Nortriptyline. I just had...

As a Crohn's patient who has been on Nortriptyline for 8 years now, I just can say it isn't worth it. My doctor called it a "wonderful pill", and I read in wikipedia that its offlabel application, though not FDA approved, is slowing down the bowel. But, a member of SSRI family, Nortriptyline is...

Thank you Unxmas & Scottsma. I will ask my doctor about amitriptyline. I read a lot in this froum about taking prednisone all in the morning but my doctor prescribed 3-2-3 (40 mg, 3 morning, 2 noon, 3 night) and tapering off 5 mg/day. I take them them every 8 hours and went to 3-2-2 last week...

Hi all, This is my first post in this forum. I am 30 and as indicated in my medical history, I was put on prednisone since 2 weeks ago, starting with 40 mg and tapering 5 mg/week. I started getting back to work last week (desk job, 8 hours/day). I have two major problems: 1. Physical fatigue...