Pls help me

[irene]

May I know what is remission? Mean what?can cure crohns? If remission no need remicade anymore?

 

[Lisa]

Remission is NOT a cure - it is a stoppage or lack of symptoms.

Remicade is used as a maintenance drug to KEEP you in remission - if you go off medications, there is a chance that the disease could reactivate or flare.....

 

[outlier]

my understanding is that whatever put you in remission you stay on...

 

[Angrybird]

Hi Irene, remission is your symptoms being in completly gone, perhaps haveing very occasional tummyaches like anyone who perhaps slips and over does it on what they eat. Eventually the remicade may be something you can then stop but I would think you would have needed to have been well for a fair while first.