Recent Posts Tagged With 'crohn's disease'

• Phenoemnal Article on Autoimmune Disease and Crohn's

  Posted on Wednesday March 19th, 2008 at 09:22 in crohn's disease, autoimmune diseases, connection between lupus and crones, fistula, infammatory bowel disease, sjogrens, fissures, menieres, auto immune diseases

  Excerpted from The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that Promises Hope (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster). To read the entire article, check here. Most of us, at some juncture in our liv...

• Red Sox, Stress and Crohn's Disease

  Posted on Sunday October 21st, 2007 at 21:14 in crohn's disease, crohns, chrons, alcohol and crohn's, chrones

  Between work stress and watching the Red Sox in a Game 7 ALCS I am hoping to avoid a flare up. I made a successful comeback on the soccer field today. The neck is feeling much better. For those of you in active flare ups...keep your heads up and have...

• Another Humira Shot and more night sweats!

  Posted on Tuesday August 21st, 2007 at 14:30 in crohn's disease, tattoos, night sweats, sweating, crohn's disease and night sweats, humira injections, humira shots, asacol

  Those of you that know me laugh when I talk about getting shots for something related to my Crohn's Disease. You laugh because I have somewhere around 15 tattoos, but wimper at the thought of a quick prick with a needle. Well these Humira shots HURT!...

• Tips for Crohn's Disease Flare Ups

  Posted on Thursday August 9th, 2007 at 21:23 in beer, surgery, crohn's disease, flare up, crohnies, humira, remicade

  Living with any chronic disease can be a challenge, and Crohn’s is no exception. The extremely painful flare-ups make day-to-day living seem impossible and when the disease is in remission, the stress of worrying about the next one can be almost as...

• Newly Diagnosed? You can beat Crohn's

  Posted on Wednesday August 8th, 2007 at 16:08 in soccer, crohn's disease, poop, living with crohn's

  I must say, 11 years ago as a healthy 21 year old, I was shocked to wake up from a colonoscopy, still heavily medicated, seeing about 5 versions of my doctor..to hear "You have Crohn's Disease" This all came about quickly, and I just heard "Disease"...

• Welcome to my Crohn's Disease Blog

  Posted on Monday August 6th, 2007 at 22:16 in crohn's disease, ibd, loving with crohns

  Welcome to Scott Roy's Living with Crohn's Disease blog. This site is dedicated to helping raise awareness Crohn’s Disease, to bring together the community, and to chronicle the stories of my friends and I as we battle this disease and search for a...

• Common Drugs Used in the Treatment of Remicade

  Posted on Saturday August 4th, 2007 at 17:47 in crohn's disease, steroids, prednisone

  Anti-Inflammation Drugs. Most people are first treated with drugs containing mesalamine, a substance that helps control inflammation. Sulfasalazine is the most commonly used of these drugs. Patients who do not benefit from it or who cannot tolerate i...