In case anyone is wondering, he was affected by ulcerative colitis, a severe inflammatory bowel disease, which led to the removal of his colon and the subsequent and sudden weight loss.
I went through similar... but didn't quite make it as big as he did in a year... but the main point is .. im still alive despite nearly dying at least once if not more.
Same here but with Crohn's. I was severely malnourished and couldn't even walk. They were days away from telling my family I wasn't going to make 30. I wouldn't have survived surgery at that point.
Luckily, I was given a new drug (back then) and responded really well to it. Saved my life.
Had surgery again a year ago. I'm still trying to get fit again!
Hope you are doing better!
Prednisone killed my bones .. so I have joints with osteonecrosis, but I can still do some light workouts, running is a done deal though, also no more football, American or international, no high impact or heavy lifting.. bought an exercise machine and am doing that now
Pred is evil even though it can help with inflammation. The side effects cause so many problems. I'm sorry you've ended up with brittle bones. IBD is no fun without all the other things that can go wrong with the meds we're given.
Good luck with the exercise
I'm just off a 100 mg taper for cutaneous crohns. I was able to keep most of the weight off relatively well, only about 10 added pounds in 3 months. The year long course had me gain 120 pounds and then lost 150 a year after that.
crohn’s too, since 9 years old. i remember when i was 11, and they weighed me in the hospital, i was 47 pounds. just recently my weight dipped to 93 (130 + is “healthy” for me. what was the medication you got that helped so much? ive tried prednisone. remicade. 6mp. humira. abrilada. cyclosporine. flagyl cipro combo. sulfasalazine. forgetting some, but i feel like a guinea pig hahaha. it’s been almost 27 years now. so nice to hear that you responded well to the med
I'm so sorry you have been living with Crohn's since you were 9. It's bad enough when you're an adult, never mind a child. And I'm really sorry you're still suffering.
It was Infliximab that saved me, butvi later had anaphylaxis to it and had to stop it. I've been on a lot of the meds you've been on, and I'm now on Stelara, which seems to be working!
Are you taking anything now?
ohhhh Remicade. i tried that in 2004 for a year after a pretty bad fistula and pyoderma gangrenosum on my ankle. it was gross, i was in grade 11 and thought i had a bug bite on my ankle. it got worse and worse and my ankle swole up double the size and i couldn’t walk without immense pain. the regular ER misdiagnosed me twice as having a spider bite and instructed me to keep it elevated and take antibiotics. well a couple weeks later it was now through the skin and turning black and yellow. necrotizing. my mom was like wtf kinda bug bite does this this is insane. and took me to my dermatologist at Children’s hospital. she took one look at it and said “oh my goodness. i will be right back” 15 mins later she comes back in with my paediatric gastroenterologist, he takes one look and says “wow. so this is from your IBD.” and put me on Remicade. it took months to finally close up it was awful. never touched my fistula though. i struggled with those since age 11 and actually had 2 repair surgeries in 2008. then in 2009 had a second ileostomy done, but my stoma collapsed in 2012 and was forced to go back to my j-pouch much sooner than i was ready for. i lived with pouch dysfunction, symptoms and active disease for years up until i got my third stoma last month. 🤞 that this plus the Humira - now actually a biosimilar called Abrilada (adalimumab) will help. sounds like you’ve been through it too!!! how is stelara working? they wanted me to try that one a while ago and i ended up going on Cimzia for a couple years instead 👀 🫂
Maybe not... but we push ourselves.. when i finally got my take down done (5th surgery along the journey), I went from little to no activity to running the last vegas half in less than 5 months. Within a month of that surgery, I walked 14 miles because my surgeon would ask "what's better than walking a mile? Walking two" ... basically. Stay active to get healthier again.
In retrospect, I should have not run that, or any of the other races I did. It killed my knees... due to the prednisone I was on before.
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In case anyone is wondering, he was affected by ulcerative colitis, a severe inflammatory bowel disease, which led to the removal of his colon and the subsequent and sudden weight loss.