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How are you feeling with Crohns?

by Judi on September 26, 2008

What I’ve been feeling lately: Battling Depressions?  Trying to keep an Up Outlook – I wonder if I should see my family dr about upping my anti-depressant again.. some days, many days, I’m ok.. but then I have times when I feel very fragile and my carefully composed positive outlook is on the brink of

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Cutting Back on Prednisone

by Judi on September 26, 2008

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

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Keeping Up with Doctor Appointments

by Judi on September 11, 2008

I’m terrible at keeping up with my doctor appointments.  It’s not the doctor appointments.  I mean, when I have an appointment, I make keep it.  It’s the making of the appointment that’s so bad.  If I don’t get the appointment while I’m at the doctor, I’ll be forever and day making one later. I had

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Prednisone Packs on the Weight

by Judi on August 23, 2008

Since my visit to the ER in June, when they put me back on 40 mg of prednisone, (that would be about 2 months time) I’ve put on 20 pounds.  Egads… What I couldn’t figure out is why it seemed like my tummy (abdomen) was so bloated all the time – then, it looked as

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Nerve Pain and Prednisone Side Effects

by Judi on August 16, 2008

First….. Wish I could say I have been feeling much better… I guess I have been, all things considered. I am not having the pain which was resulting from the abscess since it’s been drained. Instead, the main pain I’ve been having seems to be from a nerve in my right butt cheek running down

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CAT Scan

by Judi on July 28, 2008

I had a scheduled CAT Scan this morning.  Why?  Sometime in April I started feeling more and more pain again.. ended up in the hospital for a couple days.  Long story short, last week (late July) I went to the dr insisted that things were going poorly and I needed to do something.. pain.. wow..

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