Hi to all from Texas. I have been watching the site for two years and you guessed it that was when I was DX with CD. After reading all the heart wrenching stories I'm almost ashamed to mention mine story.
My story is mild. I had lots of "D" way to often . Night sweats, and mild fever . Nothing I eat bothers me, and I never feel pain except in arse when I'm having a flare . Two years ago we did some extra tests to check for markers that would indicate a probability of things to come, and they came back positive for good things to follow . Asacol seemed to work. Dr said I may not have another episode . Fast forward to June of this year and things were bad enough that "I wanted" another scope to see what the heck was going on. Now I'm on Humira. Feel great right now but I just had my "two shot", and this week I start the every other week dose. My GI has two hundred Crohns customers here in NE Texas. I think this thing is much bigger than everyone thinks and I think it is growing. I am frightened by Humira. Might fix me ,,, might kill me. What a choice. On the up side, I decided to get off all meds for two months, and my BP went down from 150/90 with meds to 135/75 without anything. I have started a gluten free diet and I bought a juicer. I have always been a cyclist and I try to ride four days a week. My goal is to see if diet along with juicing can make a difference . Before now I have always eaten everything, Mexican, Italian ,American, Pizza you name it and because I exercise I don't gain any weight and everyone thinks I'm healthy . Guess I fooled them.
I hate hate hate prednisone , makes my heart do strange things, but I'm off it now.
Kurt
My story is mild. I had lots of "D" way to often . Night sweats, and mild fever . Nothing I eat bothers me, and I never feel pain except in arse when I'm having a flare . Two years ago we did some extra tests to check for markers that would indicate a probability of things to come, and they came back positive for good things to follow . Asacol seemed to work. Dr said I may not have another episode . Fast forward to June of this year and things were bad enough that "I wanted" another scope to see what the heck was going on. Now I'm on Humira. Feel great right now but I just had my "two shot", and this week I start the every other week dose. My GI has two hundred Crohns customers here in NE Texas. I think this thing is much bigger than everyone thinks and I think it is growing. I am frightened by Humira. Might fix me ,,, might kill me. What a choice. On the up side, I decided to get off all meds for two months, and my BP went down from 150/90 with meds to 135/75 without anything. I have started a gluten free diet and I bought a juicer. I have always been a cyclist and I try to ride four days a week. My goal is to see if diet along with juicing can make a difference . Before now I have always eaten everything, Mexican, Italian ,American, Pizza you name it and because I exercise I don't gain any weight and everyone thinks I'm healthy . Guess I fooled them.
I hate hate hate prednisone , makes my heart do strange things, but I'm off it now.
Kurt
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