This by Walter is exactly what I've experienced. I have another stricture now, I've managed it by low fibre diet. I'm absolutely loathe to have anymore surgery (x4 up to now). The disease just comes straight back. But & its a big but, if I start obstructing I know its almost inevitable that surgery will follow. For me balloon dilitation during colonoscopy just delays it. It always collapses back. So with careful management I've got by so far, I intend to stay that way. For me surgery has to be absolutely the last resort, my last 2 have been traumatic & I was a bit closer than I wanted to be to meeting my maker last time. I also find that with age it gets harder to get over with longer recovery times etc.
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Grant
Hi Grant, You will probably be interested in the following case:
A Serious Crohn’s disease Treatment Case: 2019
1. Patient Profile: Male, Middle of 40s, Address: ND, USA
2. Treatment period: 9 months from Dec. 2019
3. Main symptoms:
– Diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2000, had 2 surgeries to remove part of the colon and comparatively large part of the small intestine.
– Medication history: Humira, Cymzia and Remicade, but didn’t work well, On Entyvio now. Although he continued to take medications and treatments, he was feeling that his illness was continuing to deteriorate.
4. Other health issues
– Anemia
– Hypophophatemia
– Osteomalacia
– Diarrhoea 4~5 time/day
5. Treatment goal:
– When I diagnosed, many of the numbers on his blood work was out of the range and he was too weak due to long years of suffering from the disease.
If his health condition was got worse, chances of developing serious health issues were extremely high.
– The primary goal of the treatment was to restore his health condition. Due to removing part of the small intestine, his digestive system would not work properly always to absorb nutrition from the food intake. And this problem will lead to continuous nutritional imbalance problems. After achieving the primary goal of the treatment, we should focus on restoring the immune system to prevent recurrence.
5. Treatment progress:
1) He visited our clinic once for first visit, but after Canada-US border was closed due to the corona-virus, He was unable to visit our clinic anymore. So, I had to judge his progress by only email he sent about his symptoms and blood tests, and prescribe medicine accordingly.
2) In addition to Crohn’s disease symptoms, I had to solve other health issues, and his low RBC, low Hemoglobin, Low Hematocrit, Low MCHC, and other CBC issues and Kidney’s problems, High Glucose, Low Iron, and low Phosphorus.
3) Blood work on Jan, 2020 showed: Low Phosphorus number became normal. It happened after a month after starting treatment.
4) Blood work on April, 2020: Ferritin number is in normal range. Iron number became normal, RBC number became normal, Hematocrit number became normal. Hemoglobin and MCHC is still low but almost near the range.
5) Blood work on May, 2020: Glucose number is in normal range. Phosphorus number is still in normal range.
6) Blood work on Aug, 2020: Glucose number is in normal, Phosphorus number is in normal range. Sometimes his other numbers were slightly out of range.
7) Blood work on Dec, 2020: All of the abnormal numbers on his blood work is now normal except his inflammation number(CRP), which was slightly out of range.
6. Overall evaluation of 9 months treatment:
– When Crohn’s disease became worse for a long time, it develops a number of other health issues. This is why it has to be treated in early stage. Although he had been treated in the hospital, his health condition had been getting worse and developing more health issues. However, every abnormal numbers on this blood work is now normal, and his energy level and vitality restored to almost normal.
– No Anemia, No Hypophophatemia, N0 Osteomalacia NOW.
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