Hi out there fellow sufferers,
I'm new, male and 38 years old and here is a brief run down of my life with crohn's. I was diagnosed with Crohn's in around 2001 after the doctors did a routine internal check when I was getting a sphincterotomy. (ouch) They noticed some inflammation in my intestines and urged me to go on mesalazine straight away to see if it helped. At this stage I did not know I had crohn's disease, it was sitting there dormant waiting for a trigger. I took mesalazine for about three months and then thought I was better so stopped taking the medicine. It stayed dormant for many years until in 2008ish when I finally gave it the trigger it required which was too much work, smoking and stress. Since then it has not gone away. I have had numerous courses of pred, (which went alright with me, no side effects), continuous treatment with mesasalazine, pentasa (i had some side effects but cant remember what they were but I went off them) and now imuran. Since 2009 I have had too many painful flare ups to mention, only once requiring hospital. I was in so much pain I finally called an ambulance and they took over half an hour to get to me and by then the pain had subsided, but they took me to hospital anyway where I sat for 5 hours without a visit from anyone and so checked myself out). I have only recently started imuran and have developed so much pain in the knees it takes me 10 mins to loosen up before I can walk properly even from sitting down for only 5 minutes. Im not sure if this is from the pred, or the imuran. Of course my doctor is on holidays so I went to hospital where I again sat for two hours without anyone seeing me so i checked myself out again. I'm just gonna stop taking imuran and see my doctor next week.
Anyway, is there anyone else who has has painful knees from imuran? im not sure if it is from this drug, or the pred.
I'm new, male and 38 years old and here is a brief run down of my life with crohn's. I was diagnosed with Crohn's in around 2001 after the doctors did a routine internal check when I was getting a sphincterotomy. (ouch) They noticed some inflammation in my intestines and urged me to go on mesalazine straight away to see if it helped. At this stage I did not know I had crohn's disease, it was sitting there dormant waiting for a trigger. I took mesalazine for about three months and then thought I was better so stopped taking the medicine. It stayed dormant for many years until in 2008ish when I finally gave it the trigger it required which was too much work, smoking and stress. Since then it has not gone away. I have had numerous courses of pred, (which went alright with me, no side effects), continuous treatment with mesasalazine, pentasa (i had some side effects but cant remember what they were but I went off them) and now imuran. Since 2009 I have had too many painful flare ups to mention, only once requiring hospital. I was in so much pain I finally called an ambulance and they took over half an hour to get to me and by then the pain had subsided, but they took me to hospital anyway where I sat for 5 hours without a visit from anyone and so checked myself out). I have only recently started imuran and have developed so much pain in the knees it takes me 10 mins to loosen up before I can walk properly even from sitting down for only 5 minutes. Im not sure if this is from the pred, or the imuran. Of course my doctor is on holidays so I went to hospital where I again sat for two hours without anyone seeing me so i checked myself out again. I'm just gonna stop taking imuran and see my doctor next week.
Anyway, is there anyone else who has has painful knees from imuran? im not sure if it is from this drug, or the pred.