Finally, after many months of tests, waiting, more tests, and waiting some more, I have finally gotten an official diagnosis of Crohn's. :dance:
I'm not sure what excites me more, knowing that I have resolution as to what's going on or the fact that I am on my way to (hopefully) remission (optimistic, aren't I?)
My family doc put me on prednisone a few weeks ago, and after seeing the GI yesterday, he switched me over to Entocort (yippee!!). I'll be taking 9mg/day for a month, tapering down to 6mg/day for a month, then 3mg/day for a month - and then with any luck I'll be done the steriods.
I will be going back to the GI in the new year to start on Imuran, they didn't want to start me on it right now, with the holidays coming up, labs and clinic will be closed, so monitoring will be difficult.
Thanks for reading - and I just wanted to share my 'happy' news!
Michelle
I'm not sure what excites me more, knowing that I have resolution as to what's going on or the fact that I am on my way to (hopefully) remission (optimistic, aren't I?)
My family doc put me on prednisone a few weeks ago, and after seeing the GI yesterday, he switched me over to Entocort (yippee!!). I'll be taking 9mg/day for a month, tapering down to 6mg/day for a month, then 3mg/day for a month - and then with any luck I'll be done the steriods.
I will be going back to the GI in the new year to start on Imuran, they didn't want to start me on it right now, with the holidays coming up, labs and clinic will be closed, so monitoring will be difficult.
Thanks for reading - and I just wanted to share my 'happy' news!
Michelle