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Any update? I hear the drug is, actually, well-tolerated by most people; however, with your husband's history of lymphoma and transplant, I would think it would be some cause for concern. I don't know, but I'm sure his doctor does.:)

Keep in mind that checking magnesium blood levels is not adequate for determining if you are magnesium deficient. Just a little anecdote about myself. I first found out by my vitamin D deficiency about 3 years ago when I was having back problems. An X-ray of my back was carried out to which...

Well poop. This is not good. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ibd.21078/pdf

The link points to a UC trial. Any Crohn's trials that can be linked to? I am excited about this drug. A targeted biologic with almost no side effects.

Sorry, you're right. I meant Upper GI with Small Bowel Follow Through. It's late.

Yes, strictureplasty was a very new procedure in 1988 and I was one of the first to undergo it. My surgeon was very good and I owe my life to him. I was thinking about trying probiotics. Never tried them before except for eating yogurt. I have had upper GI's in the past that were clean...

On occasion I get this idiopathic, colicky central chest pain. Is this a common Crohn's symptom? It feels like it could be cardiac pain (of course I am not really sure what that feels like), but the nature of it is that it builds to a discomfort then it ebbs...sort of like a peristaltic or...

Thanks for the response! Upon mentioning it to my Gastro; he seemed to think it may be adhesions. I recently had a colonoscopy which revealed an ileocolic anastomosis stricture approximately 95% blocked. He inflated it with a balloon. He said, however, there was no active Crohn's disease all...

Hello. I am new to this forum. I am 38 yo and was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1987 at the ripe old age of 13. My disease at the time was quite aggressive and did not respond well to Prednisone. I had surgery on the ileum and cecum in 1988. Since that time I have been relatively well...