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Does anyone suffer from Crohn's or colitis?
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Nov 17 8:48am | Replies (111)Comment receiving replies
I’m glad it’s helped your arthritis. Sorry it’s not helping with your crohns. !!
My experience has been just the opposite of mine. Inflixemab has really helped my crohns but only a little help with my back arthritis.
Oddly, I fought a palmor wart on my thumb for 50 years. I finally killed it with dry ice. But it came back ( lowered immunity?) just before I started infusion. It grew rapidly.
But just before my third infusion, it disappeared!!
Not only that, I had a non-cancerous growth (like a wart) on my left side. Just above my waist.
I’ve had it for decades!
I’ve had a multitude of doctors look at it, and tell me not to worry about it.
It just fell off the other day!!
Could these two unexpected events be a result of infleximab?
Maybe a bonus result?
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To be fair I haven't been diagnosed with Crohns. I have confirmed collagenous colitis so apparently that isn’t helped with Remicade. Neither is osteoarthritis. But joint disease caused by inflammatory auto immune actions is helped immensely most of the time.
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I took Imuran for a few months until I had too many infections.
What I didn’t realize was that side effects could be lymphoma- not yet!- and skin cancer. Later on I had more than my share of skin cancers- basal cell and squamous cell. Now I’ll have the second one removed from my nose.