Hi Kelly,
Oh, good you have a GP appointment. Yeah, take the antibiotics. Make sure the GP gives you metronidozole and poss ciprofloxacin. Mine gave me some rubbish one when I first had an abscess and immediately when I saw my gastro he said no that's not right and gave me those and they worked much better. You've probably had them before though with the amount of problems you've had
Good if he can hurry up your gastro appointment too.
I've started the elemental diet this weekend, but I had to phase it in. It's not going that great so far - you can see my post on the Exclusive Enteral Nutrition section about my woes on it.
I decided to go on the EEN because I'm not seeing that great result yet from the Humira, despite being on it weekly, and it seemed like it might be a good idea to add something else. There's good evidence that EEN can induce remission in adults with crohn's, but much better evidence for small bowel crohn's - much less for colitis and perianal, so it will be an experiment. the theory (one theory) is that it reduces the antigen load in the gut that we are supposedly having an abnormal reaction to. At the very least, it should be a period of bowel rest so it could help the fistula to heal I think.