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doglover11
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Here is my story:
I am a 28 year old white female who lives in Chicago. I am getting married in November, have no children, work full time, and, in addition to CROHN'S (AKA the devil's disease) also have severe asthma, allergies, and ulcerative esophagitis. I have had IBD symptoms since I was a child - diarrhea, cramping, feverish, sleeplessness, anxiety, bloody stool, etc.
When I was about 20, my GP ran some blood work and then sent me to a GI. I was told everything was fine after a colonoscopy was done. Fast forward about 2 years - I am living in the UK, working and going to school. My symptoms are horrible. I go to the GI doctor in the UK, they do scopes and a test and I am told I have Crohn's.
I am given prednisone and told to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I gain about 60 pounds and my weight fluctuates out of control.
I come back to the states in 04 and promptly am referred to a new GI doctor in Chicago. This is where it gets scary.
The GI doctor does a scope, diagnoses me with microscopic colitis/crohn's and ulcerative esophagitis. Over the next 2.5 years, I am in and out of his office, on and off meds. I have been on prednisone, asacaol, entecort, immodium, methotrexate, immuran, 6mp, EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF. The immunosuppresants do NOT help and cause me to lose my hair and get nauseous all the time. I miss work all the time, I am sick from all the diarhea (sp) and cramping and it sucks.
So then another crohnie at my work who is in remission refers to this GI in the suburbs of Chicago. I go see her in May 2007. She says that methotrexate, immuran, 6 mp, etc are very powerful drugs and that I shouldn't have been on them so long. She puts me on Remicade, every 6 weeks.
The remicade helps a bit, more than the other drugs but I still have symptoms ALL THE TIME. I have a very limited food source and it's hard for me to find things to eat. When I had a severe flareup a few weeks ago, she prescribed entecort. The remicade has caused me to gain more weight, 5 years ago I was at 122, now I am at 200 pounds. ICK.
So ---- what do you do when no medicines work????
Here is my story:
I am a 28 year old white female who lives in Chicago. I am getting married in November, have no children, work full time, and, in addition to CROHN'S (AKA the devil's disease) also have severe asthma, allergies, and ulcerative esophagitis. I have had IBD symptoms since I was a child - diarrhea, cramping, feverish, sleeplessness, anxiety, bloody stool, etc.
When I was about 20, my GP ran some blood work and then sent me to a GI. I was told everything was fine after a colonoscopy was done. Fast forward about 2 years - I am living in the UK, working and going to school. My symptoms are horrible. I go to the GI doctor in the UK, they do scopes and a test and I am told I have Crohn's.
I am given prednisone and told to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I gain about 60 pounds and my weight fluctuates out of control.
I come back to the states in 04 and promptly am referred to a new GI doctor in Chicago. This is where it gets scary.
The GI doctor does a scope, diagnoses me with microscopic colitis/crohn's and ulcerative esophagitis. Over the next 2.5 years, I am in and out of his office, on and off meds. I have been on prednisone, asacaol, entecort, immodium, methotrexate, immuran, 6mp, EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF. The immunosuppresants do NOT help and cause me to lose my hair and get nauseous all the time. I miss work all the time, I am sick from all the diarhea (sp) and cramping and it sucks.
So then another crohnie at my work who is in remission refers to this GI in the suburbs of Chicago. I go see her in May 2007. She says that methotrexate, immuran, 6 mp, etc are very powerful drugs and that I shouldn't have been on them so long. She puts me on Remicade, every 6 weeks.
The remicade helps a bit, more than the other drugs but I still have symptoms ALL THE TIME. I have a very limited food source and it's hard for me to find things to eat. When I had a severe flareup a few weeks ago, she prescribed entecort. The remicade has caused me to gain more weight, 5 years ago I was at 122, now I am at 200 pounds. ICK.
So ---- what do you do when no medicines work????