Hi, I'm Claudia,
I'm 24, I've been a member for a year but only just summoned up enough courage to post for the first time! I don't know anyone else with IBD and its hard to talk to friends about it so hopefully I can get more involved on here as I've already found it really helpful to read about everyone's experiences :thumleft:
I was diagnosed with Crohn's in 2009 after I suddenly developed serious pain in my guts shortly after leaving Uni and moving to a new area. (hmmm ...I suspect stress may have been involved...)
Doctor put me on Pentasa (useless :yrolleyes followed by Azathioprine and Prednisalone which stopped my symptoms quite quickly and gave me a full year totally free from pain (woohoo!) but did make quite a lot of my hair decide to give up and fall out (boo!).
Hair grew back, I got on with my life until October 2010 when my insides decided they hated me again and I was put back on Pred and onto 6MP which had practially no effect on me :thumbdown:
So I spent my New Years Eve in hospital and started on Infiximab (Remicade) which almost instantly made me feel a million times better!
However I only managed 3 infusions before the symptoms returned and I was admitted to hospital in March 2011 for emergency surgery. Turns out I also had a grumbling appendix which had worsened my symptoms (has this happened to anyone else?) so they took 1/4 of my large bowel (and appendix), some small bowel and left me with a temporary Ileostomy.
Still waiting for my reversal which should have been any day now but I'm starting to develop those pesky painful symptoms again :sign0085:
Anyway thats my story, sorry to ramble on for so long!
I'm 24, I've been a member for a year but only just summoned up enough courage to post for the first time! I don't know anyone else with IBD and its hard to talk to friends about it so hopefully I can get more involved on here as I've already found it really helpful to read about everyone's experiences :thumleft:
I was diagnosed with Crohn's in 2009 after I suddenly developed serious pain in my guts shortly after leaving Uni and moving to a new area. (hmmm ...I suspect stress may have been involved...)
Doctor put me on Pentasa (useless :yrolleyes followed by Azathioprine and Prednisalone which stopped my symptoms quite quickly and gave me a full year totally free from pain (woohoo!) but did make quite a lot of my hair decide to give up and fall out (boo!).
Hair grew back, I got on with my life until October 2010 when my insides decided they hated me again and I was put back on Pred and onto 6MP which had practially no effect on me :thumbdown:
So I spent my New Years Eve in hospital and started on Infiximab (Remicade) which almost instantly made me feel a million times better!
However I only managed 3 infusions before the symptoms returned and I was admitted to hospital in March 2011 for emergency surgery. Turns out I also had a grumbling appendix which had worsened my symptoms (has this happened to anyone else?) so they took 1/4 of my large bowel (and appendix), some small bowel and left me with a temporary Ileostomy.
Still waiting for my reversal which should have been any day now but I'm starting to develop those pesky painful symptoms again :sign0085:
Anyway thats my story, sorry to ramble on for so long!