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    Azathioprine making me poorly...advice please

    Hi everyone, So I had my resection early May and was just starting to feel better but for the last month I have felt extremely 'under the weather' and started being sick again. My IBD nurse ordered a blood test and it turns out that my blood stuff is all over the shop and looking a bit...
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    Eeek...first surgery on Thursday!

    Hello, I've finally got a date for my resection (3rd May) it's been a long time coming but now I'm getting all scared about it. I'll be having about 40cm removed of small intestine and possibly some of the largey too, depending on how much is stuck together in there (MRI looked a bit messy...
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    Coming out too quickly...?

    Hello, I still feel slightly embarrassed discussing my poop on here :blush: but I just had one a minute ago and it seemed to have all my Pentasa granules in it...is this normal? Or does this mean I'm not absorbing them properly? I've been on them since July 2011 and never noticed this before...
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    Update and surgery questions...

    Hello all, So I saw my nurse yesterday to discuss starting Infliximab and to get the ball rolling with the paperwork. Then I get a call from her in the afternoon to say she had spoken to my Consultant and now he is thinking that surgery may be the best option instead as infliximab would just...
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    UC on This Morning

    Hello, If anyones interested they had an interview about UC on This Morning yesterday. Think you can probably only watch this if you're in the UK...
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    Few questions...

    Hello, Sorry if this has been asked a million times before but Im a Remicade/Infliximab newbie... I'm due to start Infliximab soon (got a meeting with my IBD nurse next week for questions but wanted some info now! :-) ) when you start, do you have to have to have a few doses in quick...
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    Sickness...help please!

    sickness...help please! Hello, I've been feeling really nauseous for the past week but today I've been sick 4 times, practically every time i eat anything it comes straight back up :-( the thing i'm worried about is taking my medication (on aza, entocort and pentesa). If i'm sick after i've...
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    Pain?

    Hello, Does anyone else have pain everyday? Mine is always on the lower right side and although it's not always really bad it is ALWAYS there. (dull ache, crampy, sometimes stabby, i'm often bloated to) I just had my blood test results back Friday and my CRP is back down to normal (has been...
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    Iron levels and hot flushes...

    Hello, Didn't know if this was the best place to post this... Had a blood test last week as I've just started Aza and was told my iron levels are low (think they said it was 7) so I've just started taking iron tablets. Does anyone know how long they take to work? I'm so tired of being so...
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    Starting Azathioprine tomorrow...

    Hello, So I'm starting Azathioprine tomorrow, 50mg a day...I completely forgot to ask my doctor (who is quite rubbish anyway and doesn't really tell me anything), do they usually keep you on the same dose for the foreseeable future or do they tend to up the dose depending on how you do on it...
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    Painful joints...

    painful joints... Hello, Does anyone else suffer from painful joints (I'm not sure if this is a Crohns thing or not) but it feels like someone has taken a baseball bat to my knees. Last week it was my ankle. Anything that helps? Rachel
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    Low residue diet ?

    Is anyone doing a low residue diet? From having my colonoscopy last week, which showed i'm still really inflamed, along with my prednisolone and pentasa not really having an effect I thought i'd give it a go (although my doc told me I don't need to change my diet at all...!) For anyone who has...
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    Colonoscopy results...advice please!

    Hello, I just had my first colonoscopy today, it says on my report that I have moderate inflammation and ulcers in my terminal ileum. They took some biopsies to that I have to wait for the results so i have to wait a few weeks for an appointment to see my consultant to talk through everything...
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    Hello :-)

    Hello, I have been looking at this forum for a while and thought I may as well join! I'm 23, been suffering with Crohn's for about 8 months (not as long as some of you, I know) but only just diagnosed a few weeks ago. Am currently on Prednisolone and Pentasa (neither of which seem to be...
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