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  1. Jonhenry

    Abscess stopped draining

    I've had an abscess that has been bugging me since May. After rounds of antibiotics it didn't go away. So went and and had surgery to open it up and check for a possible fistula. Good news, no fistula. The abscess was doing fine for the past 4 days but now it's stopped draining and is getting...
  2. Jonhenry

    Hemorrhoid Surgery

    So...I'm guessing most people on here have experienced some form of Hemorrhoids. I get D at least 5 times a day (supposedly this is remission). Use tucks wipes and calmoseptine almost daily. I still get these skin tag hemorrhoids. I've had 2 cauterized and removed, but it hurt like hell and they...
  3. Jonhenry

    Never felt so humbled...

    I took my ex 80 miles to an HIV/AIDS clinic today to get his meds/bloodwork stuff done. While spending my 2hrs in the waiting room and seeing people run to the bathroom faster than I ever have... It made me fell like ever bitching about my disease was so bad. To have to deal with that & fatality...
  4. Jonhenry

    Vomiting Blood

    I started vomiting blood this last Thursday, it landed me in the hospital all weekend. Now I'm setup with scopes on both ends on the 9th. I've never had trouble with my upper GI system, always my lower. This scares me. They gave me some great GI cocktail that had some numbing stuff in it that...
  5. Jonhenry

    Sleeping 15 hours a day

    I've had this problem since I got back from Phoenix. I lay down to watch a movie and end up waking up like 8 hrs later. I'm sleeping like 15hrs a day! This isn't unusual during a flare but lately I don't know why. I'm just so tired all the time. I could go back to bed for the night right now...
  6. Jonhenry

    The flare that won't quit

    I've been fighting this flare-up for 2 years now with a variety of meds and ended up with a new GI dr who I've seemed to make progress with, but now I'm back to bloody D and the bathroom campout. I think it's just some major family stress that's triggered this particular bout from my month long...
  7. Jonhenry

    Has anyone tried this probiotic?

    My brother gave me 1 dose shy of a month's worth of culturelle probiotic. It contains 10 billion cells of lactobacillus GG. I haven't had any luck with probiotics before, but this one is has alot more active cultures than the ones I tried. I was just wondering if anybody had tried this specific...
  8. Jonhenry

    My ass is on fire, and more surgery

    It's been a very up and down year or more now, something is always coming up. I have to have surgery AGAIN for an anal fissure. I just keep getting them. Normally I wouldn't be so wound up about it, but we just set my bankruptcy court date for the $30,000 I've racked up in medical debt and now...
  9. Jonhenry

    Getting Resectioned

    Well, it looks like I'll be lined up to remove 3 parts of my large intestine. I think he said it was like 9in total. I have 3 not-too-large ulcers just in my large intestine that haven't calmed down or healed over the past year or more. So they're going to cut them out and sew the good parts...
  10. Jonhenry

    Flaring again

    flaring again I was feeling so good for the past couple of weeks. I started having problems after thanksgiving and then things have just gone from bad to worse. It's like the pentasa just quit doing anything. I called my GI but still haven't gotten a response, and I really don't want to wait...
  11. Jonhenry

    Update

    It's been a strange few weeks but very good ultimately. Thanks to MaskdMarvl's advice on getting advanced tracked through medicaid I have medicaid. I ended up in the ER again with a stricture in my small intestine. That was unusual. I told the GI about medicaid and like a week later it was my...
  12. Jonhenry

    **** **** *** ****

    Ok. I'm moving out of my parents house come november 1st. I moved out when I was 17 and a senior in high school (this is after the chrons diagnosis) and didn't come back until my relationship/living situation fell apart. I haven't barely slept in 3 days. I've had the shits like every damn time...
  13. Jonhenry

    Ranting

    ranting I hate my bathroom tile floor. I hate how my back and legs get sore when I'm stuck there for a while. I hate when I have to puke in the trash can because the cramps are making me sick. I hate being in that room in general anymore. I hate people when people bang on public bathroom doors...
  14. Jonhenry

    An introduction from Jonhenry

    I'm Jon. I'm not new to Chrons or IBD but new to talking to people like this about it. I was diagnosed at 17, after really bad bouts of diarrhea. Back then it wasn't horrible. I took meds, I think some of the first were like atropine and stuff, the prednisode didn't come until later. I could...
  15. Jonhenry

    New here, looking for help

    I've had was diagnosed with Chrons disease about 4 years ago, I'm now 25. It has always sucked but lately it is taking over everything. I haven't ever been in forums like this, so I don't quite know how to format this..so here we go. On May 31st I had my worst flare-up yet. I passed out on the...
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