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    Travelling to Mexico.

    Anyone travel there before. If so how did your IBD behave? Did you take the Dukoral oral vaccine before going? Did the vaccine make you sick? I am going for the first week of December and now I am starting to get nervous.
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    30 Day Shred.

    For those that want to do a quick effective 20 min workout from the comfort of your home, I highly recommend Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. All you need is some dumb bells or hand weights. I do 2.5 lbs for some exercises and 5 lbs for others. The video has 3 levels that you do for 10 days each...
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    Two fairly long remissions.

    I just want to say that I have had crohns for 12 years now, and I have had 2 fairly long remissions. My first one followed a pretty severe flare after my resection. I was put on pred and imuran. I slowly went into remission. I stayed on imuran for a year but came off because I felt good and kept...
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    The wait begins.

    I think I am officially in flare mode. I am taking 30 mg pred each day and this morning I had my first bloody BM in a very long time. Its weird because I didnt feel any pain, but thats probably the pred masking the symptoms. I guess the remicade is officially out of my system and now I have to...
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    Bye Bye Remicade Hello Imuran.

    Well Remicade worked miracles in my body. It closed my fistulas in 4 days. It put me in remission for over a year. However it seems I developed a lupus like reaction to it. I started getting rashes, tender lymphnodes, fatigue, muscle pain, and joint pain. It was few and far between at first, but...
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    Coming to terms.

    I am coming to terms with some things that have left me extremely broken and depressed. -My body hurts. Every single day. Along with a bunch of other strange symptoms. I dont know if it will ever go away. This really bothers me as I am a really active person. I can handle the gut problems but...
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    Honey baked lentils

    I dont know how many of you can handle lentils, but I love this recipe and its really economic. If you use red lentils they dont have any skins on them like the other lentils do. When done it resembles a thick sauce that can be put on bread, rice, or pasta. I have also substituted the honey for...
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    Sore stiff muscles.

    I get these bouts of muscle stiffness. I wake up in the morning feeling like I fell down a flight of stairs. Every muscle group is stiff. Arms, legs, chest, shoulders, back, neck, everything. Its stiff but not achy like when you have the flu. If I move around a bit it gradually gets better to...
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    Finally.

    Waiting for this infusion has been so hard. With weird sypmtoms of muscles soreness. My bowels and esophugus being inflammed to the point of me taking prednisone. I just want to know if the infusion will make me feel normal again. This is the worst I have ever felt waiting for the next infusion...
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    Gluten free begins.

    I am on day 2 of my GF diet. Not just for me but for my daughter as well. So far so good. I have a few reasons to suspect gluten is bad for me. One of them being recurrent pregnancy loss. All the tests I have taken for this have come back normal, so I am on to trying new things. My daughter has...
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    Dont feel well.

    Off and on I get these bouts of muscle stiffness. It gets worse when I sit or lay down. I can feel whenever I roll over in my sleep and it wakes me up. It feels like I fell down the stairs or something. When I get active the pain subsides, and I feel really good, but when I rest it comes back...
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    Moogie?

    Did you make it?
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    Gluten free soon.

    I am gonna do a 30 day gluten free challenge. I am going grocery shopping tomorrow to buy GF pasta, and bread/pancake mix. I hope my bloat goes down significantly and that my daughter's constipation issue also resolves. I have a theory that she is gluten sensitive. With GF bread and pasta, I can...
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    1 year later.

    I am on my 1 year remiversary. I get my official 1 year infusion on friday. So far so good. The only real side effect I have had is some non crohns related severe abdominal pain. It hasnt happened in a few months. When it did happen it would last about a day, and it only hit me every month give...
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    Lymphnodes.

    There is a lymphnode I have under my jaw by my ear that feels bruised. Its not swollen, it just hurts. I cant feel a tiny bump there sometimes, like a pea, but its hard to find. I went to the doctor she said it felt fine. She felt all my lymphnodes, and then my liver and spleen. She said it was...
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    Chicken and Dumplings.

    I have made this twice now and I love it. http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/chicken-and-dumplings
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    What happened to GrumblyGuts?

    I hope she is ok. She was really sick and didnt want to go to the hospital because she had nobody to watch her toddler. Last post I read of hers she hadnt eaten anything for about 8 days. I really hope she is ok.
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    S. Bouladarri For C. Diff infections.

    Since it can be serious for IBD sufferers, and mant of us take antibiotics which can lead to secondary C.Diff infections, I thought this article would be informative.
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    A list of IBD studies, natural treatments, and potential causes.

    http://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/inflammatory-bowel-diseases For those that love researching. Have fun.
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    Slow cooker recipes. A year of slow cooking.

    I found this website and I totally love it. Crock pot dinners may be easier to digest as they are slowly cooked all day. Plus there are so many comforting recipes to choose from and most are gluten free. Its also really easy to just stick a bunch of stuff in the crock pot and forget about it...
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