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I can cope with physical stress, like shovelling a wheelbarrow of soil or moving house....but emotional stress just kills me. Are you like that? What sort of stress sets you off?

i wish i didnt give a ****. I am trying not to, sometimes i feel that i can't 'digest' what is happening around me. I don't (generally) look around me at the world and think 'yippee', no....more common is, i look at what people are doing to the world and get grumpy! while others dont 'give a...

yep, nothing like a good morning spit to get the day started! Another thing someone told me, which helped was ; 'what you eat and think today, walks and talks tomorrow.' I love that one. Half the battle with crohns is staying cool and not 'giving a ****', get it. Most people you meet with...

my tongue is as pink as a rose today! Has been for a few years....at the peak of ill-health it was coated white for a couple of years. I dont know why a spit bucket, but to this day i wake in the morning and spit all the crap out of my mouth...scrape my tongue with my teeth and spit it all...

that is great that you have god to hold on to......because people cant be there with you day and night offering you support in hospital etc. . . and we dont want them to anyway, right? Being a burden is the last thing we want.... Someone once said to me that getting crohns disease was like Gods...

Several years ago i read this book and realised that in some cultures adults keep a 'spit bucket' by their bed. When i wake in the morning these days i scrape my tongue with my teeth and spit it out. Probably 5 scrapes will do it. I rekon the stuff that comes off and out of the mouth would kill...

simply - there must be something that is common place in England, America, Europe, South Africa and Australia - that is NOT happeneing in Russia, China, Japan, Africa. I wonder what it is? the way food is manufactured? early childhood vaccines? a type of food we eat that they dont? something...

Thank you to the main contributors to this thread. It is epic! When I look at the map of the 'incidence of crohns' globally, England and America are the higest incidence. It makes sense that it would spread from England to Europe via migration. What is interesting is Australia and South...

hi Loosie - i rekon you are on the right track. You are diagnosed, well done. You are asking questions = very good. (most newly diagnosed go into denial and pretend to their friends they dont have crohns) You are thinking that there are things you can do - there is. You are wary of internet...

well said Joe and well done you for getting into remission....but also well done you for changing yourself. It is a giant leap for people to look at themselves in the mirror and say 'i need to change'.......I have always felt that crohns is an emotional disease....a lack of ease with emotions...

I like the 30%physical - 70%mental theory.... the problem is, most people who are sick (with crohns or other) just want to take a magic pill and everything goes away....they dont want to, for one minute, entertain the thought that it is partly themselves and their lifestyle, thought patterns...

i think it was called 'tooth moose' - i just googled it and it does come up.....good luck mate.

there is a paste you can put on your teeth at night that may help.....same happened to me....no fun....more dentist trips yuck!

i was wondering.....if you have a sinus problem, like I seem to have, do you keep taking Remicade or do you take a 'drug holiday'? sinuses have been playing up for months...

thanks no guts no glory...yes the GI does know.....sometimes i do push it out as i have to drive 2 hours to get it...thanks for the reminder though.

Laurie F i was on entocort for 5 years. it is very hard to get off it if you have been on it for a long time, like you have. I started to try and get off it at 2 years....it took me 3 years to get off it. here is why. i was taking 3 per day for years, then would go down to 2 per day for a...

Hey does anyone else get conjested after having Remicade? I have developed a very very mild sinus problem after being on remicade for 5 years. The only other side effect i get is sore muscles (mostly in my legs). Has anyone else suffered with sinus issues? I sneeze pretty much everyday a few...

I have been on Remicade for 5 years....every 8 weeks. When i went for the last infusion it was middle of winter here in Australia and I had just gotten over a headcold. After the infusion the headcold almost seemed to come back and I am now 10 weeks later and I am still sneezing and blowing my...

i was on entocort for 6 years.... I KNOW... no i wasnt taking supplements, but i was surfing a lot. they can do a 'bone density test'...its just an xray sort of thing....

you should pat yourself on the back drake.....what someone needs is a loving friend like you...almost makes me want to cry! Keep being there for her and helping her back to her happy place...one step at a time.