A few months ago I wrote about being diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. I wrote about how it seemed like avoiding certain foods made my symptoms go away.
Since then they’ve been back in varying degrees and I haven’t yet been able to establish a clear link between what I eat and my symptoms. Which makes it hard to continue with food restrictions. (That and Easter chocolate in the house – although of course I could just say no)
Because I’m continuing to have symptoms and because of what a test in January showed about extent of the disease I’m going on different meds: Entocort short-term and Imuran longer-term if blood tests indicate I can take Imuran.
I’m finding there’s a significant emotional component to all this. I don’t like being on medication – it’s scary because I don’t know what else it will do (short term and long term) as well as what it’s supposed to do. Read the rest of this entry »
03-26-2008 |
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