I had my capsule done last week and this week was spring break in Oregon where my GI is and he was on vacation so I won't have the results until next week. This is Capsule #4. At this point my GI has said ... If there is still inflammation and ulceration low enough in my small bowel we'll go forward with the re-section and treatment afterwards to try and keep it from coming back. If it's more wide spread or further up in my small bowel then we're going to attack it with medication because they won't be able to do it laprascopically if it's further up and they don't want to cut me wide open.
My blood work is getting worse, I have some nutritional deficiencies which isn't really a surprise. I'm trying to figure out what to do in order to get my stats up. Either everything is low or borderline, other then my white count of course which is elevated again since I stopped the Humira. I had an IgA count done and it's borderline low, I had done research and thought perhaps that that was the issue and not CD but it's not screaming out that that is the issue now since it's low but not below normal. Looks like we're ruling out everything in order to confidently say it is Crohn's, that's the approach of my GI now. I've always felt that it was CD, there really is no other explanation at this point.
I've been going up and down the last few weeks health wise so I haven't been here as much but I'm trying to be more active as much as I can.
Cheers,
Drew-
My blood work is getting worse, I have some nutritional deficiencies which isn't really a surprise. I'm trying to figure out what to do in order to get my stats up. Either everything is low or borderline, other then my white count of course which is elevated again since I stopped the Humira. I had an IgA count done and it's borderline low, I had done research and thought perhaps that that was the issue and not CD but it's not screaming out that that is the issue now since it's low but not below normal. Looks like we're ruling out everything in order to confidently say it is Crohn's, that's the approach of my GI now. I've always felt that it was CD, there really is no other explanation at this point.
I've been going up and down the last few weeks health wise so I haven't been here as much but I'm trying to be more active as much as I can.
Cheers,
Drew-