Hi I'm Matt. I'm 29 years old and was diagnosed with Crohn's a couple of months ago. My flare ups, which have been occurring for nearly a year if I remember right, are becoming more frequent and severe. The last major one lasted several days and I spent one of those days in urgent care on an IV drip to ease the pain. Was prescribed steroids after this event but decided to hold off until the specialist could prescribe me immunosuppressants. I now have that prescription (azathioprine) and I took my first pill tonight with food. The goal is to get me on the TNF inhibitors eventually. Anyway, yeah, just saying hi. Currently studying molecular biology and genetics, actually writing my thesis now, and am finding it very difficult to plan around the flare ups.