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I don't have much to add, except that in my pack I had a low residue diet outline which I followed for a couple of days. Good luck!

Hm. It's a tricky one, but if your disease is higher up in your intestines, you can still get constipation, which really is a horrible combination!

It might be worth asking for a referral to someone who deals with skin problmes like burns and bedsores. Unfortunately our NHS departments tend to operate in silos and once you are assigned to the gastro department they might not think of talking to specialists outside of the department. At the...

Hello there, Braveheart and crohny66, I have a couple of questions for you both... 1. Do you take any painkillers at all? 2. Do you know if you have any bowel narrowing at all? 3. Have the doctors given you any idea where your disease is most active?

Just a quick note to say that yes, there are such things as temporary colostomies which are used to let the lower part of the colon heal. I did catch a glimpse of your photo before photobucket removed it and it looks very painful. I can see that you are still officially undiagnosed, what tests...

Thank you so much for the welcome messages!

Hi there, Have you thought about getting some professional fitness help? I am thinking about the sort of professional trainers who coach people who undertake endurance events. They will have lots of advice for you about how to combat fatigue and how to effectively and efficicently use your...

Diagnosed by the great Graeme Kerr at the Royal Shrewsbury aged 16-ish, my Crohn’s proved to be frustratingly stubborn to most therapy and I ended up having major abdominal surgery after a colonoscopy went spectacularly wrong. Unidentified super-infections, an accidentally induced heart attack...