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[TPrice]

Hello everybody, I'm TPrice and I've had crohns for close to five years now. Basically my story is that I started to develop symptoms in January of 2009 and they were progressively getting worse, but I was not familiar with crohns so I couldn't put the pieces of the puzzle together and my doctor at the time was not taking me seriously. At one point he wanted to send me to a new age healing facility. I decided to switch doctors who immediately sent me to the hospital. There I was diagnosed with crohns after being in the hospital for a week. When I was finally diagnosed I weighed 96 pounds at the age of 16. I was put on prendisone and 6-MP but was still bedridden for months until I started on Remicadee. Now I'm mostly symptom free aside for an occasional flareup.

 

[Trysha]

Hello TPrice
Welcome to the forum.
It is good to hear you are greatly improved after a bad start.
What a good thing you did by changing doctors.
Hope you continue to improve and achieve a remission.
Thank you for posting good news.
Hugs and best wishes
Trysha

 

[rrhood1]

Welcome - this is a great place for information and to ask questions. Glad you're doing so well!

 

[pink&green]

Hello and welcome to forum you definitely came to the right place there's lots of support, advice and information on here so don't hesitate to ask. Glad your feeling better.