Hello!

[stacie2609]

Hey everyone!

I just thought I would introduce myself to everyone on the forum seeing as though I'm probably going to be spending a bit of time on here seeking advice and other peoples experiences.

My name is Stacie and I am a 23 year old High school teacher from Far North Queensland in Australia. I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease on Monday after 6 month's of pain, suffering and endless doctors visits.

I am currently taking 25mg of Prednisolone once/day until I can see the Gastroenterologist and work out a plan of attack moving forward.

I have already seen a huge improvement in my symptoms since starting the Prednisolone and am looking forward to further improvements.

I look forward to being able to gain advice and personal experiences of other sufferers rather than talk to others who have no experience with the disease.

 

[lenny]

Prednisone: The horrible, wonderful, terrible, amazing drug!

Welcome!

 

[POTTYTIME!]

Welcome,

Who wrote you the Rx for the prednisone? Kind of weird you have a DX of Crohn's Disease, the Rx for prednisone but you didn't get a Rx for Crohn's. I myself cant take prednisone any more due to AVN in my hips. Crohn's treats people differently. Depending on how bad your disease is. I myself have severe fistulizing crohn's. I have been out of work for 6 months now. Having surgery next week.

Hopefully if the prednisone is working that good for you this quick, then you stand a good chance of getting back to some kind of normal soon. Do you have any side effects from the prednisone?

 

[stacie2609]

Thanks for your replies!

I am assuming that they put me on the Prednisolone in order to induce remission and settle the symptoms. I have an appointment with the specialist tomorrow to discuss medication and work out where to from here. Here's hoping they will also sort out this peri-anal abscess that seems to be part and parcel of this cruddy IBD!

I was pretty confused by the whole process and didn't ask to many questions when I was discharged post colonoscopy last week (when I was given the diagnosis) I was still pretty out of it from the sedation.

I have had some side effects from the prednisolone. I have had trouble sleeping, I've been very irritated and easily aggravated since being on it. I haven't noticed any increased appetite but I have noticed a little bloating similar to what I would normally have when I'm flaring. I'm not as fatigued as normal and the prednisolone seems to have improved the frequency rather than the severity of the pain. I have noticed that my skin has changed a little, I'm tending to look a lot more pale and unwell despite not feeling particularly bad.

I have had a few bad nights with pain and can't identify what I've eaten that has flared it up - everything seems to flare it at the moment except for Ribena...

Here's hoping something comes up at the specialist appt tomorrow.

 

[SammyD]

Hi Stacie, I'm from SA. I was diagnosed in late 2013 after years of symptoms and no diagnosis (was told just bad IBS several times so I stopped going to the doctor about it until it became pretty bad) so I'm glad to hear that you were diagnosed relatively quickly!

I also found prednisilone worked very quickly too (about a week when on 40mg) but I have a lot of trouble with the side effects so my dr is now not heaps keen on prescribing it for me.

I hope you get full remission very soon and your appt with the dr went well today