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    Serum sickness remicade?

    Has anyone heard of serum sickness with remicade? My son has been having headaches,about one or two per month associated with nausea and noise sensitivity. They usually last around 8 hours or so and then gone. I give him Tylenol with no relief, ice, essential oil to neck. I sent a message...
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    Ruptured appendix

    My son is in the hospital after having surgery Saturday for a ruptured appendix. He didn’t feel good Thursday after school had lower belly pain and fever . About 4 weeks prior to this had similar thing except had very bad headache, cough, congestion too. Pediatrician diagnosed him with sinus...
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    Elevated ALT

    My son is 11 years old and has been on remicade and oral methotrexate now for 1 year. He initially started on 6MP but changed meds due to diagnosis of JSpA. He's had fluctuations in his ALT since the start of 6MP, and continued even with the med change. Rheumatologist decreased the...
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    Methotrexate side effect

    Is it possible to develop side effects to MTX after being on it already for 10 months? My son took his dose on Sunday and within a few hours had terrible headache, stomach pain and cramping (upper and lower), fever, nausea. He went to bed and woke up the next day totally fine.
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    Dexascan results? How to interpret?

    After our last GI appt., Dr. said my son's bone mineral density from his dexascan in November was low so she wanted to repeat it. The Zscore at that time was -6.6. I just got results and his Zscore now is -2.6. I'm not sure how to interpret these results.
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    10y. old son newly diagnosed, sed rate high for months

    Hello, my son L was diagnosed at age 9 in Sept. 2016 with Crohn's. He had no symptoms prior when he suddenly developed diarrhea and pretty bad foot pain. My initial visit to the doctor was actually for his foot. It hurt so bad he would cry at night, as well it was very swollen. His X-ray was...
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