u/Emerald-Venus

First hospital stay

It kind of feels like a rite of passage even, but not in a good way unfortunately. April 13th, I got admitted in the evening for worsening symptoms, because adalimumab wasn’t working for me. They gave me IV prednison to combat the inflammation and did a repeat scope which shows my entire large intestine was inflamed where previously it was just proctitis. They started me on Vedolizumab on the Friday and I could go home after, but symptoms worsened again at home. Now I’m back for IV steroids to hopefully give that last push for the inflammation to subside, but if it doesn’t work, they’re contemplating starting JAK inhibitors or even surgery to remove the colon… I’m not feeling very hopeful, anyone in a similar situation?

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u/Emerald-Venus — 3 hours ago