Hi,
My wife was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2010 because of fistulas and other tests they ran. She does not have stomach aches and her last colonoscopy was super clean, so she is said to have the "fistulizing Crohn". To avoid more fistulas, she has been on Humira for 3 years. Lately she started having one infection after another. Currently she has a rash on both legs, she has some kind of sinus infection, and she regularly has strange bumps that come and go. Oh and her left arm often goes numb and her left eye is twitching often (the kind of small annoying twitching that she feels but that is hard to see). She never had that before starting Humira.
Because her Crohn's diagnosis was never very convincing to us and to some of her doctors, we decided to take the risk and take her off the Humira, hoping that the fistulas were originally caused by something else than Crohn's. Her Gi is ok with that.
Now it has been 2 months since she stopped and she is still getting infections. Do you know how long the side effects of Humira can be expected to last? I have been searching around, but could not find anything on that. At a few places it suggests that in rare cases, some side effects may be permanent. That's scary, but I don't know if it applies to this never-ending trend of small infections.
Any help or comment would be greatly appreciated!
My wife was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2010 because of fistulas and other tests they ran. She does not have stomach aches and her last colonoscopy was super clean, so she is said to have the "fistulizing Crohn". To avoid more fistulas, she has been on Humira for 3 years. Lately she started having one infection after another. Currently she has a rash on both legs, she has some kind of sinus infection, and she regularly has strange bumps that come and go. Oh and her left arm often goes numb and her left eye is twitching often (the kind of small annoying twitching that she feels but that is hard to see). She never had that before starting Humira.
Because her Crohn's diagnosis was never very convincing to us and to some of her doctors, we decided to take the risk and take her off the Humira, hoping that the fistulas were originally caused by something else than Crohn's. Her Gi is ok with that.
Now it has been 2 months since she stopped and she is still getting infections. Do you know how long the side effects of Humira can be expected to last? I have been searching around, but could not find anything on that. At a few places it suggests that in rare cases, some side effects may be permanent. That's scary, but I don't know if it applies to this never-ending trend of small infections.
Any help or comment would be greatly appreciated!
