- Location
- Sydney Australia
I've been quietly reading for a while.. at 57 my computer "forum" skills are a bit elementary.. Was diagnosed with CD (pan colitis) 2 years ago, with an illness 5 years previously of "Reiter's Syndrome" - a good going R ankle arthritis, some urethritis, and a serious, difficult to treat, bilateral iritis. As someone for whom a tendency to constipation, and the size of the waistline was always a battle, I never dreamt the diagnosis could be Crohn's Disease!
Anyway, here I am, taking my 3gm of sulfasalazine daily, and wishing NSAIDS weren't relatively C/I in IBD (my iritis is quiet when I don't have the big "D", but the SI joints are seriously troublesome!!)
Main thing that strikes me, reading here, is the range of experiences we all have with CD, and how those of us in the older-onset age group maybe have a different disease pattern to the younger people.. (my heart really goes out to the parents/grandparents of newly diagnosed kids!)
Guess we're all in this together !
Anyway, here I am, taking my 3gm of sulfasalazine daily, and wishing NSAIDS weren't relatively C/I in IBD (my iritis is quiet when I don't have the big "D", but the SI joints are seriously troublesome!!)
Main thing that strikes me, reading here, is the range of experiences we all have with CD, and how those of us in the older-onset age group maybe have a different disease pattern to the younger people.. (my heart really goes out to the parents/grandparents of newly diagnosed kids!)
Guess we're all in this together !