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Astra101 · 03-11-2010, 08:51 AM

Right Rob!
You've started something now!

Where are you from Fellow Brits?

Rob · 03-11-2010, 08:52 AM

Hahahaha

Creepy Lurker · 03-12-2010, 04:07 AM

I like to be vague.

North west-ish.

Sort of related: Have you seen google street view? They activated 95% coverage of the UK yesterday. It's frightening!

http://www.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/

violetcreams · 03-12-2010, 07:53 AM

I'm in Yorkshire. I 'emigrated' from Liverpool in the early 90's.

Agent X20 · 03-12-2010, 10:17 AM

I've been in West Yorkshire for over 20 years now... I'm originally from the Wirral and still have traces of the funny accent.
Don't know if I'm on streetview yet as I live in the back of beyond... but I can see my house on google map and I can see that the car needs washing... don't even have that car any more!

Misty-Eyed · 03-12-2010, 11:39 AM

Heree!!! I live in the south though. It's warmer... lol

NatalieMT · 03-12-2010, 05:06 PM

I live in Chester, so North West England also.

rygon · 03-12-2010, 05:08 PM

Grimsby here (NE Lincs, or Humberside as it still says on all my letters)

Astra101 · 03-12-2010, 06:07 PM

hiya Brits!

Creepy where are you? you might be just around the corner from me!

Yay! Chester, love it there Natalie

hey Wirral's not so far from me Steve

merrywidow · 03-13-2010, 12:14 PM

creepy will never say where he is.
i live in eastbourne, its called the sunshine coast!!!! its on the south coast of england.

xX_LittleMissValentine_Xx · 03-13-2010, 12:19 PM

Yep! I'm from Reading! In Bath atm tho for uni! (Love Bath!!) Chester is a lovely place too

x x x x

gibby · 03-13-2010, 04:44 PM

Aww anyone further north?

I feel alllll alllooooooooooooooonee sob sob

Hidden away in the sticks, up in Dundee.....

merrywidow · 03-15-2010, 10:10 AM

oh i meant to add that i am 60 miles (100km) from london.
gibby your never alone.

Lishyloo · 03-15-2010, 10:17 AM

Watford in Hertfordshire.... 20 mins by train from London...

Astra101 · 03-15-2010, 12:49 PM

aw Gibby
we wont forget you stuck up there in Dundee!
xxxx

NatalieMT · 03-15-2010, 01:04 PM

Ooh I'm going to Bath on Wednesday, not been before so I'm glad to here it is also really lovely!

Chester is a pretty nice place, I work right in the city centre so I guess I've got the best of it for the most part. I'd much prefer to move to a warmer climate though.

Italie · 03-15-2010, 04:14 PM

Hey

I'm just outside Glasgow so not too far from you Gibby.

Surely there's not only 2 Scots on this forum!!!?

xxx

violetcreams · 03-15-2010, 04:29 PM

Hello all!!!!!

Misty-Eyed · 03-15-2010, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lishyloo

Watford in Hertfordshire.... 20 mins by train from London...

I used to work at the Ramada Hotel in Watford, Lishy, right when they were widening the M1. Was a nightmare to get there are back!

Claire617 · 03-24-2010, 08:52 PM

From the land of pasties... Cornwall lol

xX_LittleMissValentine_Xx · 03-24-2010, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NatalieMT

Ooh I'm going to Bath on Wednesday, not been before so I'm glad to here it is also really lovely!

Chester is a pretty nice place, I work right in the city centre so I guess I've got the best of it for the most part. I'd much prefer to move to a warmer climate though.

So what did you think of Bath? x x x

Fruitcake · 03-28-2010, 12:45 AM

Hi everyone

I only joined the site today and it's good to see other uk members. I live in St Helens so not far from a few of you.

Nice to meet you all

DannyboyUK · 04-10-2010, 02:33 PM

Hi all, I'm a Cardiff boy.

Fruitcake · 04-19-2010, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Italie

Hey

I'm just outside Glasgow so not too far from you Gibby.

Surely there's not only 2 Scots on this forum!!!?

xxx

My b'f is from Glasgow and most of his family are still there so we go up quite alot....boy do they know how to throw a party! xx

bruscar · 04-20-2010, 09:49 PM

Just across the Irish sea.

Closer to london than some of our scottish friends probably.

But on the site sure we are only a shake of the fingertips away !!!

Hedgehog · 04-21-2010, 10:08 PM

Another hardy Northerner....Violet, I may be near to you!

04-22-2010, 11:33 PM

Hey, new to here. I'm from Dundee in Scotland.

Dallies · 07-23-2010, 08:53 PM

Just for the Aussie Rob!!!! Thought I'd bump this thread. Calling all Brits!!! Good evening and I'm from the beautiful Peak District, England. XXXX

Rob · 07-23-2010, 09:10 PM

Everyone wants to be like me hahahaha

Silvermoon · 07-23-2010, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lishyloo

Watford in Hertfordshire.... 20 mins by train from London...

My husband was born there....MANY moons ago.... lol...

I've never been out of Canada (heck, only been out of Alberta a handful of times...)... but hopefully...someday soon.....

03-11-2010, 08:51 AM	#1
Astra101 Your Story Forum Monitor Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: St. Helens, Merseyside, UK Posts: 2,043	Any Fellow Brits out there? Right Rob! You've started something now! Where are you from Fellow Brits? __________________ Joan Diagnosed 2005 (but symptoms for 15 years!) been on Azathioprine, Mercaptopurine, Budesonide Metronidozole, Bye Bye Prednisolone we're so over! Pentasa 2 (4 times a day) Multivitamins & Iron CalciChew + Vitamin D x2 Cod Liver Oil with Vitamin D http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.p...4208290&ref=ts No-one should make you feel inferior without your consent!

03-11-2010, 08:52 AM	#2
Rob Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Australia Posts: 1,172	Hahahaha __________________ Now on Vedolizumab MLN0002 - woohoo!! Hope this works -------------------------------------------------------------- 200mg immuran daily 1500mg mesalazine salofalk daily 30mg predniscone daily - started my taper now down to 20mg woohoo!! Only 5 weeks of pred to go!!! Somac 40mg daily -------------------------------------------------------------- Tried remicade and didn't work

03-12-2010, 04:07 AM	#3
Creepy Lurker Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,043	I like to be vague. North west-ish. Sort of related: Have you seen google street view? They activated 95% coverage of the UK yesterday. It's frightening! http://www.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/ __________________ Add me on facebook

03-12-2010, 07:53 AM	#4
violetcreams Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Northern UK Posts: 736	I'm in Yorkshire. I 'emigrated' from Liverpool in the early 90's. Last edited by violetcreams; 03-15-2010 at 04:27 PM.

03-12-2010, 10:17 AM	#5
Agent X20 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: West Yorkshire, UK Posts: 1,292	I've been in West Yorkshire for over 20 years now... I'm originally from the Wirral and still have traces of the funny accent. Don't know if I'm on streetview yet as I live in the back of beyond... but I can see my house on google map and I can see that the car needs washing... don't even have that car any more! __________________ Steve J

03-12-2010, 11:39 AM	#6
Misty-Eyed Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: England Posts: 161	Heree!!! I live in the south though. It's warmer... lol

03-12-2010, 05:06 PM	#7
NatalieMT Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chester, UK. Posts: 386	I live in Chester, so North West England also. __________________ Crohns Diagnosis - 2008. Current Medication - Tramadol, Entocort 12mg (not tapering), Questran, Probanthine - too many supplements to mention!

03-12-2010, 05:08 PM	#8
rygon Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Grimsby Posts: 190	Grimsby here (NE Lincs, or Humberside as it still says on all my letters)

03-12-2010, 06:07 PM	#9
Astra101 Your Story Forum Monitor Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: St. Helens, Merseyside, UK Posts: 2,043	hiya Brits! Creepy where are you? you might be just around the corner from me! Yay! Chester, love it there Natalie hey Wirral's not so far from me Steve __________________ Joan Diagnosed 2005 (but symptoms for 15 years!) been on Azathioprine, Mercaptopurine, Budesonide Metronidozole, Bye Bye Prednisolone we're so over! Pentasa 2 (4 times a day) Multivitamins & Iron CalciChew + Vitamin D x2 Cod Liver Oil with Vitamin D http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.p...4208290&ref=ts No-one should make you feel inferior without your consent!

03-13-2010, 12:14 PM	#10
merrywidow mum with a dogdy tum Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: eastbourne england Posts: 3,099	creepy will never say where he is. i live in eastbourne, its called the sunshine coast!!!! its on the south coast of england. __________________ crohns diagonsed dec 12th 1997 life is like a loo roll, the nearer to the end you get the faster it goes. memories are what makes life, life is what makes memories, make them good sharon x

03-13-2010, 12:19 PM	#11
xX_LittleMissValentine_Xx Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Reading, UK Posts: 363	Yep! I'm from Reading! In Bath atm tho for uni! (Love Bath!!) Chester is a lovely place too x x x x __________________ Holly age 18 Diagnosed with CD March 08 Currently at uni studying Human Nutrition in Bath Azathioprine messed up my blood! Weekly blood tests waiting for normality again, while slipping into a flare. -- Now back on Aza 10mg, feeling better might be trying to up the dose soon -- 3g Pentasa

03-13-2010, 04:44 PM	#12
gibby Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Scotland, just back from a year in New Zealand Posts: 205	Aww anyone further north? I feel alllll alllooooooooooooooonee sob sob Hidden away in the sticks, up in Dundee..... __________________ Yvonne Everything happens for a reason, no matter how crap it seems,it shapes you for better things in life. Keep smiling! Dx UC 1991 when i was 8 years old: Lovely Meds... 8x500mg Pentasa (Mesalazine) 3x50mg Imuran (Azathioprine) Mebeverine/Colofac PRN for pain and B12 injections every 3 months finished course of Pred in April onto a 6wk course of Asacol more flares now so looking at changing meds...but to what?

03-15-2010, 10:10 AM	#13
merrywidow mum with a dogdy tum Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: eastbourne england Posts: 3,099	oh i meant to add that i am 60 miles (100km) from london. gibby your never alone. __________________ crohns diagonsed dec 12th 1997 life is like a loo roll, the nearer to the end you get the faster it goes. memories are what makes life, life is what makes memories, make them good sharon x

03-15-2010, 10:17 AM	#14
Lishyloo Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Hertfordshire, UK Posts: 617	Watford in Hertfordshire.... 20 mins by train from London... __________________ Lishyloo x Pentasa turned out to not be a miracle bum cork, entocort was useless, azathioprine turned me into the vomit monster, mercaptopurine 100mg made my liver go toxic, now on Pred 30mg, Tramadol 100mg, waiting to start remicade and taking any digestive health supplements I can get my hands on! Waiting eagerly for surgery on 22nd March! Sharting is such sweet sorrow... Laughter is the best medicine!

03-15-2010, 12:49 PM	#15
Astra101 Your Story Forum Monitor Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: St. Helens, Merseyside, UK Posts: 2,043	aw Gibby we wont forget you stuck up there in Dundee! xxxx __________________ Joan Diagnosed 2005 (but symptoms for 15 years!) been on Azathioprine, Mercaptopurine, Budesonide Metronidozole, Bye Bye Prednisolone we're so over! Pentasa 2 (4 times a day) Multivitamins & Iron CalciChew + Vitamin D x2 Cod Liver Oil with Vitamin D http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.p...4208290&ref=ts No-one should make you feel inferior without your consent!

03-15-2010, 01:04 PM	#16
NatalieMT Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chester, UK. Posts: 386	Ooh I'm going to Bath on Wednesday, not been before so I'm glad to here it is also really lovely! Chester is a pretty nice place, I work right in the city centre so I guess I've got the best of it for the most part. I'd much prefer to move to a warmer climate though. __________________ Crohns Diagnosis - 2008. Current Medication - Tramadol, Entocort 12mg (not tapering), Questran, Probanthine - too many supplements to mention!

03-15-2010, 04:14 PM	#17
Italie New Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Glasgow Posts: 12	Hey I'm just outside Glasgow so not too far from you Gibby. Surely there's not only 2 Scots on this forum!!!? xxx __________________ Italie Had Crohns on and off for 13 years. Not on meds at the mo - thankfully! Diabetic

03-15-2010, 04:29 PM	#18
violetcreams Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Northern UK Posts: 736	Hello all!!!!!

03-24-2010, 08:52 PM	#20
Claire617 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 195	From the land of pasties... Cornwall lol __________________ Diagnosed Feb 2003 Surgery Apr 2010 Life is finally looking great again

03-28-2010, 12:45 AM	#22
Fruitcake Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: St Helens, UK Posts: 49	Hi everyone I only joined the site today and it's good to see other uk members. I live in St Helens so not far from a few of you. Nice to meet you all

04-10-2010, 02:33 PM	#23
DannyboyUK New Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 8	Hi all, I'm a Cardiff boy.

04-20-2010, 09:49 PM	#25
bruscar Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: ireland Posts: 89	Just across the Irish sea. Closer to london than some of our scottish friends probably. But on the site sure we are only a shake of the fingertips away !!! __________________ Crohn's colitis,permanent ileostomy,post herpatic neuralgia (from shingles)

04-21-2010, 10:08 PM	#26
Hedgehog Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Durham, UK Posts: 144	Another hardy Northerner....Violet, I may be near to you! __________________ The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Archilochus Diagnosed March 1st 2010 Medications: Azathiaprine (Imuran) 100mgs Calcium supplement Multivitamin Fish oil supplement

04-22-2010, 11:33 PM	#27
Stacey84 Guest Posts: n/a	Hey, new to here. I'm from Dundee in Scotland.

07-23-2010, 08:53 PM	#28
Dallies Parents Forum Monitor Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK. Posts: 207	Just for the Aussie Rob!!!! Thought I'd bump this thread. Calling all Brits!!! Good evening and I'm from the beautiful Peak District, England. XXXX __________________ Dallies xx (Meg's Mum) Meg was Diagnosed with Crohn's June 2010 and is 16 years old. She is taking Azathioprine.

07-23-2010, 09:10 PM	#29
Rob Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Australia Posts: 1,172	Everyone wants to be like me hahahaha __________________ Now on Vedolizumab MLN0002 - woohoo!! Hope this works -------------------------------------------------------------- 200mg immuran daily 1500mg mesalazine salofalk daily 30mg predniscone daily - started my taper now down to 20mg woohoo!! Only 5 weeks of pred to go!!! Somac 40mg daily -------------------------------------------------------------- Tried remicade and didn't work