Hi All,
I'm Josh, live in QLD, Australia.
Anyway, here's my tale so far... Was diagnosed w suspected Crohn's (in the colon) around Sept last year. Started with the SCD diet almost immediately, before needing pred in Oct, the Pred (40mg) initially worked got rid of symptoms (blood etc), then when going down to 20mg and after some stress, the blood came back. Anyway, i've been on it now for about 4 months, im currently on 30mg and tapering down to 25mg next week, I should also mention I've almost been on pentasa (4g a day) for just short of a month (i've heard that can take some time to start working), and I am on my 6th day of TLD (total liquid diet - using fortisips). Also i self medicate with marijuana (via my vaporizer - no nicotine of course) every day for probably the past month or so (i find it helps amazingly reducing the need to go to the toilet), I generally only go to the loo in the morning (maybe 2-4 times until the bowel feels empty) I was feeling really well before starting the fortisip drinks, the reason for starting them was simply because I was still passing blood, and still am.
Overall at the moment I feel a bit indifferent on how I think i'm doing. I know I could be worse, but at the same time I'd really like to be doing better.
Anyway, greetings
I'm Josh, live in QLD, Australia.
Anyway, here's my tale so far... Was diagnosed w suspected Crohn's (in the colon) around Sept last year. Started with the SCD diet almost immediately, before needing pred in Oct, the Pred (40mg) initially worked got rid of symptoms (blood etc), then when going down to 20mg and after some stress, the blood came back. Anyway, i've been on it now for about 4 months, im currently on 30mg and tapering down to 25mg next week, I should also mention I've almost been on pentasa (4g a day) for just short of a month (i've heard that can take some time to start working), and I am on my 6th day of TLD (total liquid diet - using fortisips). Also i self medicate with marijuana (via my vaporizer - no nicotine of course) every day for probably the past month or so (i find it helps amazingly reducing the need to go to the toilet), I generally only go to the loo in the morning (maybe 2-4 times until the bowel feels empty) I was feeling really well before starting the fortisip drinks, the reason for starting them was simply because I was still passing blood, and still am.
Overall at the moment I feel a bit indifferent on how I think i'm doing. I know I could be worse, but at the same time I'd really like to be doing better.
Anyway, greetings