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  1. vanilla_chai

    Positive ana

    Hi all, I have a question about a positive ana. Over the summer, about a month before surgery, I had the rash on my knuckles get more pronounced. I asked the allergist about it when I was getting an allergy shot and he was really concerned. He told me to go to my gp for a referral to a rhemmy...
  2. vanilla_chai

    Got a cold, ended up on 6 days of pred - rant

    I managed to catch a cold a few weeks ago, it turned into an ear infection - both inner and outer. Tried drops, that only held it at bay, was given amoxicilin 3xs a day for 7 days. Day 6 still felt crummy, Dr took one look at my sinuses and asked how my crohns was. Apparently everything in my...
  3. vanilla_chai

    Adventures in MoviPrep

    I'm scheduled for my 3rd colonoscopy tomorrow and was given, yet again, a new prep (to be fair, its been a different dr each time) So, having spent several hours unsuccessfully googling MoviPrep in hopes of uncovering a description of the taste beyond Dave Barry's ("a mixture of goat spit and...
  4. vanilla_chai

    Crazy check

    Hi everyone, thanks for taking the time to read this... I'm feeling really emotional still about the time leading up to my surgery and am considering emailing my Dr but I'm afraid I'm a bit crazy. I'm not normally an overly emotional person but I think I've cried more over this than when I...
  5. vanilla_chai

    Surgery in 3 days

    Actually, 2.5 days at this point - I'm scheduled for surgery 6/5/12 for a ileocecectomy (but my surgeon is calling it a R hemi-colectomy). I've tried to not worry about the surgery and prepared as much as I can for being in the hospital and then stuck at home (I was in the hospital for 5 days...
  6. vanilla_chai

    Pill Cam - any words of advice?

    I'm scheduled to do a pill cam on Monday. I've planned out my prep (http://www.crohnsforum.com/showthread.php?p=430880#post430880) I haven't decided if I'll go to work, work from home, or just go home and watch TV until I have to return the equipment I'm not even sure what I'm wondering...
  7. vanilla_chai

    Sudden onset blockage pain with out stricture?

    Hi all, I just got some good but confusing news from the nurse at the GI office. After getting a blockage a week after Remicade (it may have been partial, they didn't use contrast on the ER CT scan and after 1.5 days @ 6mg of solumedral every 8 hrs, the second CT showed a thin stream of...
  8. vanilla_chai

    Path towards Surgery

    I really appreciate being able to read others' stories so I figure I'll put mine down in case it helps someone else. If this would be better in a different section, feel free to move it so... After ending up in the hospital with at least a partial blockage (they did the first CT wo contrast bc...
  9. vanilla_chai

    How long were you out of work after a laproscopic resectioning?

    Hi all, I thought I'd save the questions until I was more sure I was moving forwards with surgery but now I'm sitting here really wondering how long it takes people to get back to work after a laproscopic resectioning? I'm waiting to get an MRI for my dr to decide if its the best path for me...
  10. vanilla_chai

    Hi

    Hi all, just thought I'd introduce myself a bit. I just found this group when looking up info on a resectioning. I've gotten to that point bc I'm in my mid 30s, wanting to get pregnant, and spent almost a week in the hospital for a blockage the week after getting remicade. Now I am waiting to...
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