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Ew. I used to love Capri Sun, but now I'm quite glad I haven't touched one in a few years!

I can't eat tomatoes at all anymore. Ketchup is okay, but pasta sauce or tomato soup will just make me vomit because it's so acidic. D:

I don't have anything particularly helpful or inspiring to add, but I did want to say welcome to the forum and you're welcome to PM me about anything!! I've never been on an NG tube, but I HAVE had to do the elemental route. Ugh, it's awful! Okay, I'm rambling. I just wanted to extend a warm...

They told me it would take three months and were pretty pushy about it too. They wanted to put me on Infliximab, but I'm not ready to go there yet, so I refused - and after about maaaaybe five months it started working? So yeah - it did take a while for me.

Ahhh I've been on Aza for 9 months now and I was starting to wonder why I'm so into salt these days! I used to be the biggest salt eater ever, but my craving for it went away and now it's back. Ugh, if only there could be some sort of healthy (or at least less bad) salt substitute!

I just wanted to say good luck to you all!! I'm just a year 10, so no major exams for me yet (although these controlled assessments are just the perfect thing to stop me RELAXING during term time, wow!).

While I'm not an adult yet, I wanted to pop in here because I've been through this and come out the other side. When I was in primary school, I was teased quite a lot. At first, I ignored them - doesn't sound too helpful, but I threw myself into academics and am still using them to cope to this...

Oh wow!!! I didn't even know this was here. It's a great idea! :D

I had a pillcam once, but I didn't need any prep for it. Just told not to eat x hours before, not to drink y hours. You can eat and drink at certain times after the pill has gone down - can't remember exactly but it was a relief after the fasting! The pill was actually way easier to get down...

Fatty/greasy foods and red meat are my trigger foods - I don't touch them anymore, which is a shame, because I used to LOVE any excuse for a takeaway. :)

We had no pets before diagnosis - I only got my dogs 3 or 4 years after I was diagnosed. :) The study really interests me, though!

Interestingly, both onion and garlic are fine for me. If there's one thing I can't stand it's bland food - they're essentials for me! :)

It took me almost... 6 months for my Aza to start working (well, I was only on 35mg half the time, but that's another story) but I feel like it's finally starting to work and I am so relieved!! When I first started I had to force myself to eat and I was dropping weight like nobody's business but...

I was wary of getting nauseous when taking Imuran, so I never took it at any other time except before bed. Works fine - and I think I might be sleeping better, too! :)

I'm about an 8 right now. Would be a total 10 if I was in remission - but alas! I am not :) Still, I hope my Aza is working (at least I think it is) so yeah.

I've also found by personal experience and talking to others that a horrible feeling of just being sick, like really bad flu, is common in the first couple of weeks of taking Aza. I got it and my parents were so concerned they took me to the hospital and I had to hang around all day waiting for...

Oooh! I rather fancy going on the London one. I'll drag a friend or two with me, though, since London freaks me out a little (especially weird, since I spent the first three years of my life there!)

I don't mind answering questions! I was in the hospital for... I'm not actually sure. I think it was 3-5 days, but I would have been out faster had they noticed that I was still on morphine. I was only supposed to be on morphine for the day of the surgery, but some clever person never came...

My surgery was laparoscopic, which probably accounted to my recovery time. I could sit up pretty much as soon as I, uh, woke up. After my surgery I did a six-week course of EEN to allow bowel rest and make for easier healing. After that I carried on with my Pentasa since I'm pretty sure I was...

Thank you both for replying - and so fast, too! Johnnysmom, I don't think we get Carnation Instant Breakfast over here but I did try something similar (can't remember its name right now - shows how bad my memory is!). I guess I will just have to cry cramming calories in - but it's so hard. My...