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Hi, Newbie Matt here 
currenltly 29 from England, I was diagnosed when I was about 25, but previously suffered 2 years of quite bad pain before being diagnosed, I've had many colonoscopies and barium tests, I was taking prednisolone for a few months this helped a lot to reduce pain, also I was taking pentasa but had to stop this as it caused blood in my urine (I also have a kidney problem called IGA Nephropathy which my Dr thinks could be some how be related to the crohns and my immune system but not 100% sure why) not long after starting these meds I noticed I started to feel a little weird, like tingling in my head and feeling a bit spaced out, but this stopped after a few weeks, maybe my body had to adjust to the meds, I'm not sure.
I had surgery in the summer of 2009 to remove the end of the small intestine (terminal ilium) and part of the large intestine and also removal of appendix. I was not looking forward to the op but i'm glad I had it done, I feel so much better now and currently taking 150mg Azathioprine per day, but recently started to get dizzy spells and a spaced out kind of feeling again, I'm pretty sure this is related to taking Azathioprine, anyone else have any opinions on this?
currenltly 29 from England, I was diagnosed when I was about 25, but previously suffered 2 years of quite bad pain before being diagnosed, I've had many colonoscopies and barium tests, I was taking prednisolone for a few months this helped a lot to reduce pain, also I was taking pentasa but had to stop this as it caused blood in my urine (I also have a kidney problem called IGA Nephropathy which my Dr thinks could be some how be related to the crohns and my immune system but not 100% sure why) not long after starting these meds I noticed I started to feel a little weird, like tingling in my head and feeling a bit spaced out, but this stopped after a few weeks, maybe my body had to adjust to the meds, I'm not sure.I had surgery in the summer of 2009 to remove the end of the small intestine (terminal ilium) and part of the large intestine and also removal of appendix. I was not looking forward to the op but i'm glad I had it done, I feel so much better now and currently taking 150mg Azathioprine per day, but recently started to get dizzy spells and a spaced out kind of feeling again, I'm pretty sure this is related to taking Azathioprine, anyone else have any opinions on this?
