Hello everyone,
My name is Colton and I'm from California, currently attending CSULB in Long Beach. I was diagnosed with Crohn's in spring of '07 after a Perianal abscess surgery failed to heal correctly. It was turning into a fistula so I began seeing a surgeon who referred me to a gastro guy that did the whole upper/lower gi stuff and saw enough inflammation that made him believe it was Crohn's (the biopsy made it more clear). I began Remicade immediately and began feeling pretty great within a few years and finally gained some healthy weight.
When coming to school in southern ca, I began infusions at UCLA and started seeing a doc there. I have been doing so well with strict diet for so long now that I wanted to see if I could potentially start moving away from doing infusion treatments as it would be much more convenient and I could live like I don't even have the disease. Yesterday I had a colonoscopy for the first time since 2007 and the doctor said I was looking like the average person without any inflammation! He wants to talk next week about changing my medication possibly to just a pill! I'm very excited about this possibility and I thought it would be great to get more insight on this forum as far what everyone has found to work with diet, exercise, and lifestyle. I look forward to learning from you all!
Also, I'm a musician and spend the majority of my time on the internet on guitar forums so forgive me if my CD forum etiquette is off
My name is Colton and I'm from California, currently attending CSULB in Long Beach. I was diagnosed with Crohn's in spring of '07 after a Perianal abscess surgery failed to heal correctly. It was turning into a fistula so I began seeing a surgeon who referred me to a gastro guy that did the whole upper/lower gi stuff and saw enough inflammation that made him believe it was Crohn's (the biopsy made it more clear). I began Remicade immediately and began feeling pretty great within a few years and finally gained some healthy weight.
When coming to school in southern ca, I began infusions at UCLA and started seeing a doc there. I have been doing so well with strict diet for so long now that I wanted to see if I could potentially start moving away from doing infusion treatments as it would be much more convenient and I could live like I don't even have the disease. Yesterday I had a colonoscopy for the first time since 2007 and the doctor said I was looking like the average person without any inflammation! He wants to talk next week about changing my medication possibly to just a pill! I'm very excited about this possibility and I thought it would be great to get more insight on this forum as far what everyone has found to work with diet, exercise, and lifestyle. I look forward to learning from you all!
Also, I'm a musician and spend the majority of my time on the internet on guitar forums so forgive me if my CD forum etiquette is off
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