January 2012: How is Your Crohn’s Today?

Hi everyone! I hope that your Thanksgiving and holiday season was wonderful — and uneventful (at least in the Crohn’s area.) For those of you who are new to this blog, every now and then I like to check in to see how everyone is doing with Crohn’s symptoms. I’ll give you an update, and you reply in the comments with your current status. And since this is a post-holiday blog, I especially want to hear how you handled all the yummy, tempting food and activities. Luckily, my Erythema Nodosum cleared up just in time for the holidays. In general, my Thanksgiving and Christmas was okay. Not great, but okay. My erythema went away just before Thanksgiving so I was able to walk, but my insides we still so-so. For Christmas, we went to New Orleans for three days to visit my sister, brother-in-law. and their new baby daughter. I did relatively okay on that trip too. Again, not great, but not the worst either, so I was happy. As many of you know, I am participating in a clinical trial to study the effects of stem cells on Crohn’s disease. After the infusions, I flared up big time and since I was in the study, I was not able to increase the level of any of my other medicines (specifically the prednisone) and had to just rest and try to get better. I took some time off from work to focus on the study and to try and get into remission. I guess that not working has helped because I did manage to get better even though I couldn’t increase the prednisone. And for those of...
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