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    NEED HUMIRA ADVICE... 22 Female in Tons of Pain

    Hi My name is Randi Benavides. I recently DECEMBER OF 2012 became aware that Remicade Was deemed ineffective for me. I got a good 13 years out of the infusions and now my body decided to reject the medicine. I got admitted to the hospital on may 6th and discharged on may 15th because I had a...
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    My Story Crohns For 16 Years

    Earnell ,,, Im on prednisone right now 40 mg / day.. after practically begging to be put on something in the process of waiting for humira to arrive.. and even with liquid diets i still have the symptoms.. i have many many polyps in both my small and large intestine.. digestion of just about...
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    My Story Crohns For 16 Years

    hi.. yes im on a special diet as far as not being able to eat spicy, greasy foods, nuts or seeds.. they symptoms im struggling with lately is severe diarrhea, malnutrition, weight loss, fatigue, blood in stool, severe abdominal pain,anemia, fainting, dizziness, and everytime i eat my stomach...
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    My Story Crohns For 16 Years

    So I was 6 years old.. I remember getting this really nasty rash in between my fingers and on my bottom.. NOWHERE ELSE just those two places but the scaling and pus was soo bad and at that age i had no sort of self control to STOP ITCHING like my mom said so it got out of control.. I remember...
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    Age 22 Remicade deemed ineffective Starting Humira?? Worried

    HI PIE GUY, uhm well yeah crohns hit me hard when i was little as well .. i passed out at mall and ended up waking up in the local childrens hospital where i stayed for 5 months until the doctors figured out what was actually wrong (ended up taking samples of my bone marrow for testing VERY...
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    Age 22 Remicade deemed ineffective Starting Humira?? Worried

    ETHAN, what makes me so worried i guess is that my medication assistance rep keeps telling me that usually ppl who go from remicade to humira end up going back to the remicade at some point .. and knowing that the remicade stopped working itd be pointless to go back.. The Humira kit wont be in...
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    Age 22 Remicade deemed ineffective Starting Humira?? Worried

    Angrybird Yes ive been on corticosteroids, vioxx, naproxyn for pain, flagyl, asacol, i mean you name it ive been. The Remicade was sort of in my opinion a stabilization treatment and id assume because i didnt go into remission that it wasnt as effective as far as taking away my symptoms. Im very...
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    Can remicade be a lifetime treatment option?

    i dont know about lifetime.. i am 22 yrs old and have been on remicade every 4-6 weeks for the last 13 years which according to my GI was above average and i have severe crohns with no remission in at all. my infusions were just deemed inneffective and as my GI says everybodys body at some point...
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    Age 22 Remicade deemed ineffective Starting Humira?? Worried

    My Name is celeste. I was diagnosed with crohns disease alongside JRA at age 8. Since age 10 i have not been in remission.. i am currently 22 yrs old and had my son at age 19 where the complications just threw my crohns into a major flare up. after having an appendectomy at 5 mos pregnant, i...
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