PB4,
I'm kind of confused, you say that Crohns is worse than UC, yet surely it depends on the individual. I know of people with Crohns who are absolutley fine and only get the occasional stomach aches, where as someone like myself with Pancolitis, has had their whole life turned upside down by this disease, I suffer from almost constant stomach cramps, seem to spend my whole life on the toilet, losing diharrea, blood or mucus, am constantly run down, now suffer with Arthritis thanks to UC, constantly burning up throughout the night which results in very broken sleep, not to mention the side effects of the many drugs

I consider myself to be lucky in that I have to date been fortunate enough to keep my career, but know of many other UC sufferers who have had to discontinue working as a result of this disease, my Aunty has Crohns, and is very well, so I'm thinking that maybe the worst case of Crohns may be worse than the the worst case of UC, but please bear in mind we are all different and have different severity of the disease, so I truly think that to suggest Crohns is worse than UC should have been thought through a bit more thorough, I don't mean to offend and I'm sure I haven't but felt I had to reply to this one, as I know of so many people who are suffering as bad as me and worse with UC.
Take care.
Dave