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Sore armpit on Humira and fistula concerns

I'm an adult male in my 30's with crohn's disease diagnosed 20 years ago. I have recently been struggling with a flare and have been taking humira with progress but not totally out of this flare yet.

I am a little concerned about soreness in my armpits but I have gone to my GP and had blood work to rule out lymphoma. It's not raised or obvious it's just a little sore. My GP said the lymph node that was most sore was still spongy and told me he thinks its infection oriented. Could this armpit soreness be an extra-intestinal manifestation of my crohn's flare?

I saw my Gastro recently and he took a look at my armpits and said to treat it like an infection and continue taking Humira after the antibiotics are done. I plan to follow doctors orders but I am having some anxiety about all these weird symptoms. Some advice would be greatly appreciated.

I also think I had symptoms of a fistula near my groin when my flare started. I've never had a fistula before but I think I had a tiny bit of puss draining around the groin area before my humira treatment began. Is this a normal location for a fistula to form or am I incorrect that it was a fistula? This symptom appears to have gone away with the Humira treatment so that's good. Also my Gastro did a colonoscopy while this symptom was present.

My Gastro is new for me since this flare began and I just wish there was a little more explanation in why this stuff is happening. The fun never ends with Crohn's.
 
I am not sure for other people but my fistulas have been in the rectal/anal areas. You mentioned antibiotics. I don't know if you are on probiotics but if so you might want to ask your doctor about doubling the probiotic while on the antibiotic. The forum has a section on External Intestinal Manifestations. You might want to post over there also.
 
Thanks for the fast reply Ron.

I am taking probiotics with my antibiotics as well. I am taking culturelle and florastor. I also started the specific carbohydrate diet so I am making my own yogurt with acidophilus.

I did not check out the Extra Intestinal Manifestations section so thank you for the suggestion. I just went to that section and found a different possible cause. It sounds like my symptoms could possibly be hidradenitis suppurativa. This could explain both of the symptoms I posted about. I'll have to ask my GI about it in our next meeting.
 
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