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    “Silent” Crohns and treatment

    Small update: 4 weeks into an 8 week course of steroids. No side effects to speak of apart from constantly feeling like I’ve had two cups of coffee too many. Just had new FCP and now <20 - hope it stays like that for a long time!
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    “Silent” Crohns and treatment

    Really helpful to hear about some real life experiences, still a bit abstract to have a disease this serious with so limited symptoms. But have decided to go for the meds. Will be starting an 8-week course of prednisolone tomorrow. Thanks all for the input.
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    “Silent” Crohns and treatment

    @Emma: I think the difference from this and cancer is that it’s pretty certain that untreated cancer will be fatal in the long run. Whereas Crohn’s is such a hetereogenous disease that you can’t really know what the disease course wil be. My thinking here was that when I’ve had the disease...
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    “Silent” Crohns and treatment

    Sorry to hear that you may have to go through surgery again, Adam. For me, I guess it’s the usual case of coming to terms with having a chronic illness. But it’s extra tough when I feel fine and treatment, by all accounts, will make me feel worse in the short run. On the other hand, it would...
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    “Silent” Crohns and treatment

    I’m 36y and was diagnosed with Crohn’s just before Christmas 2019. I had noticed blood in my stools a couple of times and was referred to a colonoscopy to rule out bowel cancer. It turned out that my insides were more or less a textbook example of ileocolonic Crohn’s disease of the inflammatory...
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