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  1. Beatit

    Fluconazole For Trush

    I have trush in my mouth and throat. It went away with some non so severe fungal medicine but now its spreading worse in my throat and mouth. I was put on Fluconazole. Any major problems here all I was taking was asacol and got this trush.....
  2. Beatit

    Feel Really Dizzy Eyes Blurry

    Past few days I have been getting little sleep. I am having one of those mini attacks. I seem to wake up every hour at night not going to the bathroom but just waking up for a sec and going back to sleep to wake up again. When I get up for the day I feel really dizzy and my balance is off. I...
  3. Beatit

    Blood Test Results Back Big Question

    I got my blood test results back today all within range accept one thing was elevated. My ALT enzyme in my liver. Normal Range 0 - 65 Mine was 69 Is this normal with crohns many normal folks not with crohns get like in the 30s.....??? I have taken prednisone about three times since 2006. I...
  4. Beatit

    White Tissue Like Mucus On First Stool

    It seems I had mucus on my first stool but it looked almost tissue blow your nose like and really thick but white. I had that then went down hill everyday after that for a week or so before I was going like every hour and needed to take prednisone (steroids). I got off steriods now after a week...
  5. Beatit

    Birthplace of Crohns/colitis/IB? UK

    When I heard on a radio that 1 in 257 people in the UK get crohns and the fact that only 500,000 people out of 300 million people living in the USA get crohns it had me thinking. It just shows you that South Africa which is mostly European from the UK have the mutated gene. Then you have...
  6. Beatit

    Wisdom Teeth and evolution

    Just like mutated gene ATG16L1 some say can cause Crohns. At least one variation in the ATG16L1 gene is associated with an increased risk of Crohn disease, particularly a form of the disorder that affects the lower part of the small intestine (the ileum). This increased risk has been found...
  7. Beatit

    Norovirus mutated gene Atg16L1 and Crohns

    Scientists have shown that a specific virus can interact with a mutation in the host's genes to trigger disease. The observation may help explain why many people with disease risk genes do not actually develop disease. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found...
  8. Beatit

    Stunted Growth a bit

    I got crohns at 18 and even if I am 24 now everyone still thinks I am 18. My family never told my grandparents so they always look at me and say keep eating etc. I have not gone back to my grandparents for year and half dont even both talking to them even if I feel like I am in the best shape...
  9. Beatit

    Asacol Question

    When I first gots Crohns in 2006 you know I was going to the bathroom green to just plain waterish. The doctors I had in Michigan when I first got it put me on just Asacol 12 pills a day. He also put me on Folate because Ascaol takes away your folate he told me. Thats it. Moved to Wisconsin at...
  10. Beatit

    My Story So Far

    I have been doing great this past year and last year. I was having major attacks a few years ago and was on Asacol with steroids to injections and up to Humira at the hospital and so on. Nothing seemed to work for me. I got Crohns in 2006 when I was 18 years old. I have had the colonscopy only...
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