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Hi, I am a 18 year old male and I was diagnosed with crohn's disease on january of this year. Since being diagnosed, I have been on various drugs. I was on prednisone for 2 months and I am currently on Humira (adalimumab) and methotrexate. I have been on many anti-biotics, notably: rifampin, doxycycline hyclate, cephalex, as well as a few anti-inflammatories to treat various infections (swollen and infected ganglions and MRSA). I was also hospitalized a few times and put on morphine, and sent back home with hydropmorphone.
A lot has happened in the past 10 months. I was diagnosed during high school exams, my grades went down by a lot and I thought I'd never get into university. I was depressed, tired and scared. One morning, I decided to pull myself together and enrolled in independent studies to re-take one of my classes. I passed with 95%. This upped my average enough to get me accepted into the program I wanted. Over the summer, I attended an IBD support group but I quit midway through because it was too depressing for me. Here I am, going to school, studying crazy, working a part time job, making sure I do enough sports and eat healthy, as well as take care of my disease (and other infections), and I have to sit and listen to a bunch of people complaining on how life sucks. I get that everyone has different ways of handling various situations, but it's ludicrous to sit there telling yourself that your life is over because you have some disease. I could go on and on about all the negative things that have happened in 10 months, or I can forget about them and move on.
I don't let the pain prevent me from doing the things I love. In fact, doing these activities takes my mind off the pain and allows me to relax. During the winter I go alpine skiing as much as possible and during the summer I go downhill mountain bike and I play paintball. I still hang out with my friends and I study a lot. I do need frequent break because sometimes I am in more pain then others.
Lately, I've been having major pain in my hands. The doctor said that I might have arthritis. Since then, I've tried smoking marijuana a few times and it takes the pain away for a little while. A friend of mine wrote on his Facebook status the other day "no pain no gain", I replied "I could argue that":ytongue:.
Anyways, I'm happy to be here, this forum is really helpful and I enjoy reading and relating to some of the posts. I hope that I'll be able to help others with my own experience and maybe to get help from others. Thank you all for being the people that you are and keep living life to the fullest! :thumright:
A lot has happened in the past 10 months. I was diagnosed during high school exams, my grades went down by a lot and I thought I'd never get into university. I was depressed, tired and scared. One morning, I decided to pull myself together and enrolled in independent studies to re-take one of my classes. I passed with 95%. This upped my average enough to get me accepted into the program I wanted. Over the summer, I attended an IBD support group but I quit midway through because it was too depressing for me. Here I am, going to school, studying crazy, working a part time job, making sure I do enough sports and eat healthy, as well as take care of my disease (and other infections), and I have to sit and listen to a bunch of people complaining on how life sucks. I get that everyone has different ways of handling various situations, but it's ludicrous to sit there telling yourself that your life is over because you have some disease. I could go on and on about all the negative things that have happened in 10 months, or I can forget about them and move on.
I don't let the pain prevent me from doing the things I love. In fact, doing these activities takes my mind off the pain and allows me to relax. During the winter I go alpine skiing as much as possible and during the summer I go downhill mountain bike and I play paintball. I still hang out with my friends and I study a lot. I do need frequent break because sometimes I am in more pain then others.
Lately, I've been having major pain in my hands. The doctor said that I might have arthritis. Since then, I've tried smoking marijuana a few times and it takes the pain away for a little while. A friend of mine wrote on his Facebook status the other day "no pain no gain", I replied "I could argue that":ytongue:.
Anyways, I'm happy to be here, this forum is really helpful and I enjoy reading and relating to some of the posts. I hope that I'll be able to help others with my own experience and maybe to get help from others. Thank you all for being the people that you are and keep living life to the fullest! :thumright:
how are you finding it? 
