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My wife just had surgery on july 18th for the same problem you have, a massive inflammation the size of a orange in her illium. To give you some history, my wife was diagnosed with CD in 2006 with two large rectal fistulas and ctons were installed. She had no other symptoms like D or pain, so...

JMC,,,thanks for the info,,,I am just curious why you had a ileostomy ?

Thanks for the in depth reply, it helped a lot. The thing that scares me is the Bms. Right now, even though she has CD in the illium and the fistual and abcsess, prior to going into the hospital for the abcess, her BMs were 100% normal since her diagnosisi in Jan. She has been in a lot of pain...

My wife will have a TI resection of about 7-10 inches including valve. She is currently in the hospital with a drain and taking antibiotics to combat a large internal abscess in her lower pelvic area probably caused by a fistula. To help her get a better grasp on what to expect after the...

Has anyone used LDN after a resection for a maintenance drug? My wife will be having a resection soon to remove 8 inches of TI and valve. The GI is pushing for her to get on humira right after the surgery so this will not happen again. She has the fistulizing crohns and is battling a abscess...

My wife got crohns after being on low dose antibiotics for three years for acne. We believe the antibiotics killed off all the good bacteria in her gut and allowed the yeast and drug resistant bacteria to over populate and cause crohns

If you are on humira and LDN at the same time , how do you know which drug is actually putting you into remission? Can you stop humira cold turkey without side affects?

My wife was diagnosed with CD in Jan and has been on 10mg predisone and pentassa and following SCd 100%. She was admitted today to the hospital after having severe pain and fever for the last 4 days. Ct showed massive abcess in the pelvic area and tomarrow they will try to drain it. CT also...

My wife was diagnosed in Jan with severe CD in the illium after having pain for two months. She has no D, just the pain. She has been on predisone and 1000mg pentassa 3xday, but every time she tappers the predisone to 10mg the pain returns and then she has to go back up to 15mg and start...