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I’m making the switch from Remicade to Humira for my crohn’s disease. The muscle aches, which we attributed to an allergic reaction to Remicade, went away mostly. However, after my 3rd Remicade treatment, the achey joints returned (maybe some slight muscle pain, but mostly just joints). It was my elbows, fingers and wrists, ankles and
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I don’t know why I seem to be so unable to grasp the pain involved with crohn’s disease. For some reason, I keep thinking that “this time”, I will get better. Honestly, I think deep down, I believe one of these times, medicine or treatments are going to actually make my crohn’s disease “go away”.
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I had, for a few minutes, actually considered taking the catheter out myself. I was glad the dr called me and was able to set up an appointment with the hospital (even though I am not happy with that hospital and I’m not exactly one of their favorite patients).. and she explained how we needed
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I left the hospital early on Tuesday, against their wishes… and immediately got in contact with my Doctor. I spoke with the assistant on Tuesday evening and then again on Wednesday afternoon. This morning (thursday) my doctor called to tell me I needed to come in so she could show me how to care for
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On Monday, I was told I needed to have an abscess drained which was getting bigger and the main source of all my current pain. The doctors assistant made an appointment for the following morning at 7:30. The assistant didn’t have any other information for me, but told me the hospital would call to confirm..
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Well… I had a Dr appt today with the newest dr on my list (Dr Akram).. She’s from the Mayo Clinic, deals exclusively with Colitis and Crohn’s and was very attentive. She listened, she watched and she touched. She also told me that when I was in the hospital in June the CT scan done
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