I had an appointment with my GI on August 30th. I’m glad that they were able to get me in sooner than November! We really needed to talk about what’s been going on. It’s hard to do that over the phone at times when I have to go through Dr. M’s triage nurse. As of…
After being on prednisone for 5 or 6 days I finally resided to the fact that the rectal pain was not going to go away on it’s own. I called my GI on Monday and left a message for his nurse. I heard back from her a couple of hours and she said that I…
As a person with inflammatory bowel disease the possibility of getting fissure’s, abscesses and fistula’s are always in the back of my mind. Last month I had an abscess scare. Thankfully I didn’t end up having one but the process to find that out was not a fun one. It all started out as rectal…
Today I saw my GI doctor for the first time in a year. Which to me is a good thing. It means that I wasn’t sick enough to have to go in for a visit. I did get sick a few times over the last year but they worked with me over the phone thankfully.…
WEGO Health : Share with readers about a time you had to overcome a daunting challenge. What words of encouragement would you share with others who find themselves facing similar difficulty? A daunting challenge is dealing with inflammatory bowel disease. It’s a disease that at times it feels like it takes everything away from you. It feels like it’s…
WEGO Health: What good habits, (health or otherwise,) do you have? Do you have a routine that you follow every morning? Are there any bad habits you wish you could break? I’m terrible at creating habits. And it doesn’t take much for me to get out of a really good habit. Before I got sick last May with another…
Unfortunately over the last couple of weeks I’ve started to go into a flare. And it sucks. I had an absolutely horrible day at work last Friday. I ended up shitting my pants at the hospital I was working at. I keep an emergency kit in my car for these instances and I’m glad I…
For now. I’m finally off of the budesonide. I was on some form of steroid from December 28th, 2013 until October 31st, 2014. That’s a long ass time. I started off on prednisone and then moved over to budesonide. I took about 5 weeks to get off of it. I prefer the slow taper method…
When I saw Dr. M last Monday we ended up talking about medications. I had mentioned to him what I’ve had bad reactions to in the past(Lialda and Imuran) and he mentioned that there were a lot of new medications coming out for IBD. The only one that I was aware of that recently came…