By: Tammy Foster.. Crohn’s disease manifests itself in the bowels and negatively impacts your digestive tract. It is an inflammatory disease that causes some degree of stomach pain and weight loss in most patients; and if it becomes severe enough the side effects can be personally debilitating. No, we currently do not understand the true
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I am so tired. I went to bed with the boys last night, around 9:00. Slept fitfully, got up at 7. That’s a lot of sleep. Not an amount I normally need, but periodically it does my body good. Not today. I feel just as sluggish and sleepy as I did yesterday. It feels bad
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Knowing your pain is actually an important in relation to crohns. Not that we want to feel pain, however it’s important to be aware of the pain, to know where it is, how strong it is. This gives us and the doctor insight to where our issues lie. I haven’t seen or spoke to my
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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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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
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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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I’ve been meaning to post this.. if for no other reason than to have it for my own records down the road. As I’m sure things will change soon since I’m still having issues. Current Daily (long-term) Medication: Asacol® (mesalamine) – affects a substance in the body that causes inflammation – 2 ?mg pills –
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Crohn’s disease affects such a wide spectrum, it’s hard to say what my crohn’s disease symptoms and pains feel like compared to someone else’s. I know when I start feeling unknown pain in general, or get rashes, etc., my first place to turn is the internet. I plug in my keywords and try to decipher
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It’s easy to get lazy when you are in pain. When I’m not feeling well, I don’t want to play in the backyard with the kids, let alone go for a walk or anything else. My husband has been taking the boys on walks at a Grant Park, a nature reserve near our house. I’ve
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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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