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Hi All, I was diagnosed with ileal crohn's about 6 years ago. I had inflammatory narrowing at diagnosis and it took about a year and a half to get in remission. Ended up on prednisone for several months without improvement, finally got admitted and got started on remicade which achieved...

Has anyone had to do one of these (where you drink 1/2 the prep the night before and 1/2 the prep the day of)? There's something that seems necessarily cruel about getting up at 2am to drink 2 liters of NuLytely with enough time to ensure no accidents on the way to the procedure. I've done...

Hi All, I have ileal crohn's which has been under good control for several years on azathioprine. For the last week or so I've been having intermittent right sided abdominal pain, worse when I have a bowel movement, as well as some pretty severe rectal pain/spasms. I've been tired (but just...

But my CT enterography was normal - do you think it's just missing the areas of inflammation?

Thanks for all of the advice. I have some mild lab abnormalities (sed rate up, anemic for the first time). So even if there is an IBS component, this can't explain everything, right? The frustrating thing is I only know about the lab abnormalities from getting copies of my lab results -...

Angrybird - I'm on 125mg of azathioprine, which is maxed based on my body weight. My GI did do bloodwork which showed a mildly elevated ESR (which is unusual for me, in past has been completely normal even with active inflammation on colonoscopy) and a new, mild anemia. I'm just concerned...

I've been reading this forum for awhile and have found it helpful so thought I should do the whole formal introduction thing. I was diagnosed with Crohn's of my terminal ileum in 2007 after about 6 months of atypical symptoms (fevers, night sweats, weight loss, nausea; but not a lot of...

I have crohn's affecting my terminal ileum and have been in remission for about 2 years. Lately i've been having abdominal pain, weight loss and nausea and saw my gastro who had me get a CT which showed no inflammation so my doc thinks it's all stress/ibs. Obviously, i'm glad not to be having...