Hi everybody,
I have an interesting story regarding my pregnancy. In April 2015 I miscarried my first pregnancy which of course was a very traumatizing experience. It happened at 7 weeks so we were told it is very common. This began almost a year of constant trips to the bathroom or severe stomach pains which would sometimes induce vomiting. I dealt with it until January 2016 when things became terrible and I could hardly make it through a work day without running to the bathroom to either relieve myself or vomit. And keep in mind we were still trying to conceive with no success since May.
I ended up hospitalized in February where I was officially diagnosed with Crohn's. I have been healthy my entire life (hardly even got the common cold) so this was going to be a learning experience for me. I was terrified to say the least. I was put on prednisone right out of the hospital and stayed on that until about the middle of May. It worked wonders. I honestly wish it didn't have the long term side effects that it does because I would stay on that for the rest of my life if I could! And since it did work so well it must have put me in remission because we got a nice little surprise in mid April when we found out we were pregnant! After the year of trying it happened when we weren't even expecting it. We actually had the red light from the doctor until I got my treatment started but life has a special way of working itself out and here I am today.
I am now 14 weeks pregnant and had my last Remicade induction infusion a few weeks past. The problem is, is that I have been terrified/stressed this entire pregnancy. I am so afraid that things are going to end up badly like my first one did. The doctor thinks I may have gone into a flare and that is what caused my first miscarriage but of course we can't say that for sure. Everytime I go to the OB (I had an ultrasound 3 weeks in a row because I was stressed) they tell me that baby looks healthy and that they don't have any cause for concern. I wish I could be that positive!
Has anyone else had a story like mine or got pregnant shortly after a flare and had the same worries I do? I just don't know how to cope with it sometimes. Every little pain I feel I either wonder if its something wrong with the baby or my Crohn's. They do blood work every three infusions and it looks like my inflammation numbers went up a bit the last time I had blood work done (two weeks ago). My GI doctor knows I am pregnant and doesn't seem to be worried so I feel I need to calm down and just trust my body to carry this baby but how do I do that? Any advice from the ladies out there who have been pregnant with Crohns?
I have an interesting story regarding my pregnancy. In April 2015 I miscarried my first pregnancy which of course was a very traumatizing experience. It happened at 7 weeks so we were told it is very common. This began almost a year of constant trips to the bathroom or severe stomach pains which would sometimes induce vomiting. I dealt with it until January 2016 when things became terrible and I could hardly make it through a work day without running to the bathroom to either relieve myself or vomit. And keep in mind we were still trying to conceive with no success since May.
I ended up hospitalized in February where I was officially diagnosed with Crohn's. I have been healthy my entire life (hardly even got the common cold) so this was going to be a learning experience for me. I was terrified to say the least. I was put on prednisone right out of the hospital and stayed on that until about the middle of May. It worked wonders. I honestly wish it didn't have the long term side effects that it does because I would stay on that for the rest of my life if I could! And since it did work so well it must have put me in remission because we got a nice little surprise in mid April when we found out we were pregnant! After the year of trying it happened when we weren't even expecting it. We actually had the red light from the doctor until I got my treatment started but life has a special way of working itself out and here I am today.
I am now 14 weeks pregnant and had my last Remicade induction infusion a few weeks past. The problem is, is that I have been terrified/stressed this entire pregnancy. I am so afraid that things are going to end up badly like my first one did. The doctor thinks I may have gone into a flare and that is what caused my first miscarriage but of course we can't say that for sure. Everytime I go to the OB (I had an ultrasound 3 weeks in a row because I was stressed) they tell me that baby looks healthy and that they don't have any cause for concern. I wish I could be that positive!
Has anyone else had a story like mine or got pregnant shortly after a flare and had the same worries I do? I just don't know how to cope with it sometimes. Every little pain I feel I either wonder if its something wrong with the baby or my Crohn's. They do blood work every three infusions and it looks like my inflammation numbers went up a bit the last time I had blood work done (two weeks ago). My GI doctor knows I am pregnant and doesn't seem to be worried so I feel I need to calm down and just trust my body to carry this baby but how do I do that? Any advice from the ladies out there who have been pregnant with Crohns?