So yeah, I guess it's kind of hard to just sort of get it out there when you've been dealing with it so long. In any case, I guess I was luckier than my brother who also has it in that he was diagnosed first and when I started having the same symptoms they knew what to look for. Well that was 10 years ago.
Since then I've had two years of steroids that made made me look like a marshmellow, a bowel resection, and periodic flare ups. After my resection I lost my job and couldn't get health insurance and didn't have any treatment or medical attention until last October when I started going to BYU and got on the student health plan. Luckily for me my flare ups over the last 6 years had been minor.
Well, I started school and it's pretty hard and stressful. I started having serious flare ups and the Doctor put me on the Pred... again. He prescribed pentasa and just as I was tapering off the Shire cares people took my pentasa away. This caused an even worse flare up which put me back on the Pred.
Now I'm taking 40mg with finals coming up next week. I can't sleep and don't feel like studying. If anything takes more than a couple minutes to figure out I start getting pissed off and can't concentrate further. This make my Chemical Engineering studies almost impossible since I have to concentrate during tests. To be honest I'd almost take the continued trips to the toilet and pain over having my brain go, my brain's way too valuable for this major.
Last finals I flared up and was on 40mg a day and I failed all of them (except the english one because it was a paper got an A on that) Luckily I had a high enough grade before I started treatment that my lowest grade was a B-. Now I'm worried the exact thing is going to happen again.
Anyways, I just needed to vent a little and I wanted to talk to people that have to deal with this stupid disease all the time since no one else seems to understand.
Since then I've had two years of steroids that made made me look like a marshmellow, a bowel resection, and periodic flare ups. After my resection I lost my job and couldn't get health insurance and didn't have any treatment or medical attention until last October when I started going to BYU and got on the student health plan. Luckily for me my flare ups over the last 6 years had been minor.
Well, I started school and it's pretty hard and stressful. I started having serious flare ups and the Doctor put me on the Pred... again. He prescribed pentasa and just as I was tapering off the Shire cares people took my pentasa away. This caused an even worse flare up which put me back on the Pred.
Now I'm taking 40mg with finals coming up next week. I can't sleep and don't feel like studying. If anything takes more than a couple minutes to figure out I start getting pissed off and can't concentrate further. This make my Chemical Engineering studies almost impossible since I have to concentrate during tests. To be honest I'd almost take the continued trips to the toilet and pain over having my brain go, my brain's way too valuable for this major.
Last finals I flared up and was on 40mg a day and I failed all of them (except the english one because it was a paper got an A on that) Luckily I had a high enough grade before I started treatment that my lowest grade was a B-. Now I'm worried the exact thing is going to happen again.
Anyways, I just needed to vent a little and I wanted to talk to people that have to deal with this stupid disease all the time since no one else seems to understand.
