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Thanks for the responses, I really do appreciate the information and perspectives. To UnXmas, back before I knew about the migrated IUD, I'd have sold my first born son to have Crohns, or something _anything_ they could treat, anything that would let me have a full bite of food without barfing...

Thank you for such a well written and thoughtful reply. I feel a little bad joining here, being that I'm not suffering like so many here do, and have for so long. I'm not even convinced I have Crohns (though I know better than to challenge the gastro on it - they really don't like it). I do...

No pill cam. Darn, it took 7 months of ongoing daily trauma just to get a CT scan. I'm not sure what symptom I'd have had to demonstrate to get a pill cam, but it would have had to involve a lovely lot of blood, methinks. It's true that I had stuff going on, that's part of the reason I'm...

I have a gastro doctor, I'm not aware of any gastro clinics here and I haven't been referred to one. The only prescription med I take is the Imuran. Round#1 of the prednisone didn't help at all, it made my symptoms worse. My theory is that since it depresses the immune system, it made the...

It being a Friday evening, I couldn't take the surgeon (let's call him Dr. T.) up on his offer to contact him if I had any problems. Rough weekend, I couldn't eat anything without dropping to my knees after a couple hours, so I basically didn't eat. Starving. I waited until Monday, and called...

Hi, new here. Please don't consider my name disrespectful to anyone in the group, it's what I called myself while I was dealing with medical professionals who weren't very sympathetic or really paying attention. I was diagnosed with Crohns in Feb 2014 after a two year journey through the...