In the past few months, I've lost 35 pounds and have to stay so close to a bathroom that I can barely leave the house. The VA doctors are sort of shrugging their shoulders and haven't been very...
Wow, I'm so impressed that you'd just walk into a funeral home! The cleanest bathrooms I've found have been in car washes (which stay spotlessly clean, since almost nobody ever uses them), urgent...
I had an ileal resection in 1999, during which I lost a foot of intestine. I've had diarrhea pretty much nonstop ever since. Nobody warned me that removing a foot or more (and you've certainly lost...
Are you in the U.S.? If so, get onto healthcare.gov and get your fiance enrolled immediately in the Affordable Heathcare coverage. He's exactly the person that this law was passed to protect! He...
You may want to ask the members here for a recommendation for a GI doctor in your new area. I did that when I moved to a new state, and I got three excellent recommendations, researched them, and...
I get the exact same symptoms from time to time. My GI doctor has diagnosed bacterial overgrowth, and he's put me on flagyl (ugh) twice. As awful as flagyl is, it's been worth it, because the...
Good for you, Beck. Just remember that there will be both ups and downs on your way--and try not to get too discouraged and demoralized by the downs. And keep us all posted on how things are going,...
When I was first diagnosed with Crohn's, I spent a lot of time on the internet--and it scared me almost to death, too! That's probably because many of the people who post of the internet are...
I-85 from the airport to Lilburn. Ideally, you'd be looking at 35-40 minutes, but the I-85 can be hell in Atlanta's very long rush hours. I-85 is like any other highway through a major city: you...
You may also want to post a new topic, giving your city and/or state of residence and asking if anybody on this forum can recommend a good GI doctor in your area. That's how I found my current...
Before my Crohn's diagnosis, I had severe pain up under my right ribcage for months. My doctors diagnosed gall bladder problems and removed it--but it didn't lessen the pain at all. My idiot GI...
My doctor gave me a free sample of Align, too. It gave me cramps and nausea. My adult daughter, who doesn't have Crohn's, tried it, too, and had the same reaction. When I told him that Align hadn't...
Definitely TMJ. I've had it for most of my life. When I open my mouth wide to yawn, or when I'm chewing something hard, you an hear the clunks from across the table. It doesn't hurt, though, unless I...
Calmoseptine is the only thing that works for me--and works immediately. It's non-prescription, but your pharmacy may not carry it, so you'll have to ask the pharmacist to special-order it for you....
I've had a permanent fissure for 10 years now, one that I've been told will never heal. (They could do surgery on it, but the surgeon explained that I would then be incontinent--which seemed like a...