I had my doctors appointment last week – the day after our Ike Wind Storm here in Dayton… Crazy days.

Anyway, Dr wants to have me to have another CT scan to see what’s going on with the absess I had.  If it’s still there, she’ll put me back on antibiotics.  Plush I am to back down off the prednisone, coming down 5 mg a week.  I started at 40 and dropped to 30 the week before I went to the appointment. So, I’m (rather quickly, I think) coming off the prednisone and I worry it’s too fast.

She (Dr) said we have to show what we are doing isn’t working before we can move forward to something else.  It didn’t dawn on me until a few days later (because of the lack of electricity and my mind was certainly on other things) that she is most surely expecting me to get “sick” again so we can prove to insurance we need to move on to Remicaide or something else.

I’m feeling pretty bummed about that – the thought of feeling sick again.. Right about the time the holidays are getting good, I expect to be dealing with more pain.  Yeah, sounds fun.  But I guess we do what we need to in order to get better.

by Jahir Ahmed

Recent research has revealed that a daily supplement of probiotics can help to relieve the symptoms of Crohn’s disease in sufferers.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jahir Ahmed is an Internet marketer, publisher and copywriter, and have been working for Simply Supplements as an online marketer and copywriter for last three years. He is particularly interested in diet and nutrition and has written many articles on health issues and nutrition. His articles are published weekly which can be found in popular article directories.

I finished up my 14 day round of antibiotics (flagyl & cipro) on Tuesday.. actually, I only had one pill to take on Tuesday, so really, I finished most of it up on Monday.

By Thursday, my body was dragging so hard.  I could just sit in a chair and sleep.  I ended up going to bed with the boys that night – at 8:30 or so and only got up a couple times to tinkle through the night.  Got out of bed at 6:30 Friday morning, took pain medicine for my sciatica nerve issue (which isn’t lessening any) and laid on the couch.  The boys were great and let me sleep off and on until about 9:30.  That is way more sleep than I ever get..

Through the day I was ok, I felt slow or sluggish a few times, but made it through the day fine.  And today, I’m back to feeling exhausted again.  I mean, I could just sit here, in my chair, at my computer / register and close my eyes.. just sit here and dose… maybe a sign that says “Wake me when you are ready to checkout.”

I tried to blame it on the heat, on not having my anti-depressants earlier in the week.. but I think it’s just crohn’s, plain and simple,  it makes me tired, drains my body of energy.

Picture Info:
Picture hosted at my madaise flickr account (I love flickr!)… my youngest daughter took this picture one day when my body just gave out on me and I succumbed to utter exhaustion… snuggled up with two of my “skinny dogs“.