Does your state have a website that you can check malpractice claims filed or paid by your surgeon or your would be surgeon? I know it is not uncommon to have claims paid out, but some surgeons pay a...
Clo2014: my small bowel strictures were first detected about 20 years ago. At that time, it was not clear if they were inflammatory or fibrotic. Fast forward to 10 years ago, my GI doctor confirmed...
clo2014: Since you are taking milk of magnesia, I guess you are having constipation with your strictures? Labradorite: You are the opposite. You are having diarrhea with your strictures. Am I reading...
Can you control you gas, i.e. hold your gas for one minute until you can go to the bathroom and pass it? If you cannot control your gas, I am thinking about bowel incontinence. This may have...
I saw you Covid post on the other thread. Lilly or Regeneron Covid-19 antibodies are the best options during the early stage of Covid-19. When Covid progresses to a later stage, patient may consider...
The first time you were suspected of Covid, they ordered blood work. I guess they were looking for antibodies, which you did not have. False negative means you could be in the early stage of Covid...
Correct me if I am wrong. I am under the impression that what matters is not how formed your stool is. It is the number of very loose stools you have in a week. That's called diarrhea, which can...
20 years ago, I took multi dose Hepatitis B or C vaccine. Then my Chron's Disease really worsened a lot. I am not sure if there was a causal relationship back then. But 2 years ago, I took flu...
Thank you for your replies. Yes, I keep a diary of my digestive issues including possible food triggers. So far there is no clear trend that my abdominal pain is getting worse. The severe pain that I...
Thank you for your reply. I have lots of narrowing in my small intestines caused by long term scarring. Maybe I had a temporary "complete" bowel obstruction yesterday. The last time I had a partial...
Abdominal pain is quite common among Chron's patient. Today I suffered the most excruciating pain in my life. Today between 5-6PM before dinner, I started abdominal pain. Within 2 minutes, my pain...
It's good that you do not have Covid-19, which is an awful disease to have. If you had it, the quarantine would be two weeks, during which time everyone is afraid you. There is social stigma...
If your only symptom is half a degree higher temperature, I doubt it is Covid-19. If you had Covid, you should have loss of taste, headache, cough and other respiratory symptoms. Many Chron's...
Not a single day went by that I do not worry about Covid. When I went to a store, I wore two face masks (hard to breath), gloves, bring hand sanitizer and avoid busy days as much as possible. The...
A few months ago, I took a picture of my face and sent it to my primary care doctor, and asked him if it is cancer. You can take a couple of pictures of where you feel the pain, and then use a...
20 years ago, after I was diagnosed of Chron's, I had my wisdom teeth pulled. I cannot remember if I was under general anesthesia or local anesthesia back then. But I think it was local anesthesia....
mirowpl: I did not know Stelara is so expensive with Medicare. Do you pay Medicare Part A, Part B and Part C to lower the cost of medication? I think my Rx is capped at $5K a year with private...
Is your Chron's disease primarily in small intestines or large intestines? MRI or MRE are good for small intestine examination, while colonoscopy is a good exam for large intestines and terminal...
It is very scary to live without health insurance. What if you need a surgery? A surgery can cost you tens of thousand dollars. For the many years with my Crohn's, there were only a few months when I...
I have alternate of constipation and diarrhea. I can have no BM for 4 straight days, and the 5th day I have running diarrhea, then followed by constipation again in the ensuing days. I find eating...
A study from England shows that most people only work ten years in good health after 50. That's for the average people (with or without Chron's Disease). See the link below:...
Last time I had my Vitamin D tested was 5 years ago. It was 20 ng/ml (desired > 32 ng/ml). So my doctor asked me to take daily oral Vitamin D supplement. But whenever I took it, I experienced some...
I voted no. I have a MRI procedure within 1 month or so, but I am going to cancel it. This Coronvirus is having tremendous, devastating impact on us in every aspect of our lives. Some people think of...
If I were out two-three weeks per year, I would probably have been put on probation by now. I work for a private employer in the U.S., where there is not much (if any) sympathy for employees'...
26 years ago I was diagnosed of Chron's. It was a devastating blow to me because I only had my first full-time job for less than 1 year. At the time, I had quite bad diarrhea that it started at 10PM...
Last year I met my IBD expert talking about expectations for a small bowel resection surgery. I asked him what medicine I should take post surgery. He said no medicine right after surgery. He said he...
Corvette or Covid? I presume the latter. Besides fever, other things to look out for are difficulty breathing and loss of taste, which are serious symptoms for Covid. If you have fever or have...
Nikki000: You need two negative tests (24 hour apart) and absolutely no symptoms. See the following from CDC. How are you feeling? You might be an asymptomatic carrier....
Work: I am mostly working from home, rarely going back to the office to get something. Shopping: My biggest fear is going to grocery stores and Walmart to buy essential items. I wear a disposable...
I live on the east coast and have 75 confirmed cases in my county and it keeps climbing. I have had this very mild cough for 1-2 weeks with zero fever. There is no need for me to get tested, because...
How many toilet paper rolls do you have? A couple of weeks ago, I accidentally bought about 20 toilet paper rolls, not because of Coronavirus fear, but because those toilet paper rolls happen to be...
Dr. Brian Monahan, the attending physician of Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court, said he expects 70 million to 150 million people in the United States will become infected with COVID-19, NBC News...
Are you affected by the Coronavirus crisis? I just got out of a self-imposed quarantine due to a false alarm. Today I went to lunch and heard someone coughing or sneezing nearby, which is really...
Wednesday: if you are interested in finding out if your small intestines have strictures or fistula, you can ask for abdominal CT Scan with contrast. This has to be ordered by your GI. If you have...
By the way, do you recall eating some thing unusual during Tues-Thursday period?...
Sorry to see what you have been going through. How many watery diarrhea do you have per day? I have been extremely careful about my food, so I did not have similar experience. People with Chron's...
stickersteve: wow, I am sorry and surprised to see what happened to you after you took Metamucil. I can imagine how bad you must have felt. I think it could be even worse for someone to take...
How common is a small intestine stricture outside of the terminal ileum? I have six strictures in ileum, but not in terminal ileum. Is it possible to have a stricture and perfect blood work...
My company sponsors employees to dine out in a group during the holiday season. But I can't, due to my Chron's and very restricted diet. I do not want to take the risk of a flare, end up in pain and...
I tried acupuncture a couple of times in the hope that it can "cure" Crohn's and induce long term remission. No, it did not. I think acupuncture can be helpful for pain management sometimes. It is...
When you meet you regular GI doctor on Monday, you can ask him how reliable this emergency CT scan is. I know every hospital is different. I went to ER toward the end of September on Friday evening,...
Thank you, scifigal2k. I just found out that the patches which the Chinese doctor gave me contain NSAID. But I think I should be OK. After two days of use, aside from some minor redness around the...
By the way, the Chinese orthopedic doctor prescribed some expensive but hopefully good patches for me, called Flurbiprofen Cataplasms. No sure what it is exactly. But the patches are supposed to...
The inflammation markers are not perfectly correlated with the intestinal inflammation in your body. My two inflammation markers (C Reactive Protein and ESR) are always low for many years. But I...
I am in China now and again I pulled or lifted some heavy stuff out of necessity. I am having back pain again, so I went to a hospital in Beijing. The orthopedic doctor ordered some X Rays, which...
I went to see my GI at the same hospital where I made the ER visit. He is not only a regular GI, but a top-notch IBD specialist. The CT Scan done at ER without oral contrast does not provide enough...
Understood. I think the emergency CT Scan was not necessary, given its lack of accuracy. But I am wondering if the radiologist can see small bowel dilation (if any) in emergency CT Scan with only IV...
I had intravenous (IV) iodine-containing contrast medium for my emergency CT Scan. I had specifically asked if I needed to drink oral contract, and the doctor told me no, IV contrast is all they need...
From Friday morning I experienced intermittent abdominal pain lasting for over 12 hours, which is unusual. So I called a RN, who told me to go to the nearest ER department. So I arrived at the...
I would be alarmed about the blood in poop. Bright red blood could be from hemorrhoids, inflammation or something very serious such as colon cancer. I would have it checked out ASAP....