Hi Everyone,
I have been lurking around this forum for a while now so I figured its about time I introduce myself. The first time I started to type out my story a few weeks ago it was too long and I never finished, so here is the shorter version.
I was diagnosed with Crohn's when I was 12 and I am now 22. It was fairly under control until about a year and a half ago and since then I have pretty much been in a constant flare consisting of mostly pain and fevers. I just graduated college (barely thanks to this flare) and right now I don't want to get a job or go to grad school until I get it under control because a lot of the time the pain is too bad to function, which is very frustrating to me. If anybody has any advice on holding a job with Crohn's it would be very welcome. Anyway, I just got off prednisone and am on only entocort at this point after a bunch of failed meds. My insurance company approved Humira back in July I am just waiting to actually start it, so hopefully it will work. I have already found a bunch of useful information from browsing the forums so thank you everyone.
I have been lurking around this forum for a while now so I figured its about time I introduce myself. The first time I started to type out my story a few weeks ago it was too long and I never finished, so here is the shorter version.
I was diagnosed with Crohn's when I was 12 and I am now 22. It was fairly under control until about a year and a half ago and since then I have pretty much been in a constant flare consisting of mostly pain and fevers. I just graduated college (barely thanks to this flare) and right now I don't want to get a job or go to grad school until I get it under control because a lot of the time the pain is too bad to function, which is very frustrating to me. If anybody has any advice on holding a job with Crohn's it would be very welcome. Anyway, I just got off prednisone and am on only entocort at this point after a bunch of failed meds. My insurance company approved Humira back in July I am just waiting to actually start it, so hopefully it will work. I have already found a bunch of useful information from browsing the forums so thank you everyone.
I hope you stick 'cause as you know there's heaps of great info and support on here. Here is a couple of links to threads regarding working people working with Crohns...............................................
