I still have symptoms but they aren’t as bad as they have been at some points since I was diagnosed with Crohn’s. In September my doctor wanted to change my medication since I was still having lots of symptoms. Out of the choices she gave me I decided to add methotrexate and go on prednisone short-term. Prednisone is usually very effective but it’s unwise to [more]
Jan 252009
My Crohn’s symptoms seem to have been a bit better over the last week or two, which is making me feel a little more hopeful. It gets discouraging having symptoms continue week after week, month after month.
I was sent home after my two nights in the hospital on two antibiotics. It turned out that these made me very nauseated. I called my doctor’s office the following Monday to see if I could stop them. That was also the day of my weekly blood test to monitor my Imuran levels. The doctor called later and asked me to stop everything because my [more]
Jul 012008
I saw my doctor yesterday to discuss how the Remicade is going. Her opinion was that the Remicade is somewhat helpful but not helpful enough by itself. Her recommendation was to add another medication which acts differently from Remicade until my symptoms are under control, then go back to just one medication for maintenance. She thought that would work better than increasing the Remicade dose [more]
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