What is remission? More specifically, if I have been diagnosed with Crohn's due to ulcers in my TI (terminal ileum) and I go into remission, do the ulcers disappear or do my symptoms go away but ulcers stay?
It depends. If your disease is more or less stable they may do a colonoscopy only once a year or maybe even less often. If you are feeling great and all your lab tests a fine, they may not do one at all. But if there is a relapse or the doc thinks there needs to be a change in medication for some reason they will often do one then so that they aren't making these moves "blind."Scipio - so how often do they attempt to confirm histological remission? This would mean knocking you out, etc. correct? If that is true wouldn't think they would go this far very often and just be content with clinical remission with possible histological remission. Also, does it matter if it is clinical vs histological in terms of how they continue to treat you? Are you still on the same meds regardless?