Oh yeah. Multi, calcium (because of the years on steroids), and fish oil (to help with the inflammation).

Thanks all. Baby steps all the way.

How's the post-surgery recovery going? Hope you're feeling better.

Geez, I'm always late to a thread. I hope you're recuperating well, Pete! :)

Yeah, same here!

I would learn to administer the shots ... if really stupid diabetics can do it (and trust me, I met a number of both stupid and crazy diabetics over the years), so can you. Heck, it's got to be easier than mainlining or skin-popping, which even the most trembly-handed, strung-out junkie can do.

You'll have better infection control that way. After fewer than a half-dozen, you'll be shooting up like a pro.

Can you get the mrs to do it? My sis has to use embrel and I think her hubby does it for her. When my SIL was donating eggs, she had to have shots, my bro would do them for her. Sometimes its easier to let some1 else do it. Or if its not in too private of a spot and one of your kids is old enough/responsible enough...let them do it? They might want to surprisingly, I was always my mom's "nurse" as a kid. It made me feel needed and like I could help out. Being the youngest there usually wasn't a whole lot I could do.

Mrs. Z is even worse about these things than I am. Fortunately, it's only once a month now that I'm through the initial set. We've got a family friend that'll handle those.

On a new note, I'm going in to the office tomorrow for the first time since the surgery. Wish me luck.

hey, i'm bringing a nurse with me tomorrow -let me know if you need her to poke you.....

(she told me she won't meet strangers off the internet, though ..I'm pretty sure she doesn't believe I've ever done that/intend to :lol:)

What about your kids? Honestly, I can't tell you how much I loved helping my mom during her health issues. It might make them feel better. It sounds like a strange concept giving them that responsibility, but they love you and I'm sure they'll love to help. I do wish you luck! My first 2 days back at work culminating in me hiding in the bathroom and calling in sick the 3rd day. I'm a wimp though.

Actually, I think one or both of the girls might do it after they've seen it done once.

But they're both leaving for college in August, so that'd be a short term thing.

I went to see the gastro yesterday 'cause I'm still feeling like crap - cramps, nausea, general abdominal pain. And he's finally willing to admit that I should be feeling better by now. He's been waiting to see if it was just post-surgery healing.

So now he figures it's one of two things:

A) The surgeon didn't get all the active Crohn's disease.

B) I have bile acid diarrhea.

There's a valve between the small intestine and the large intestine which got removed when they did the surgery. (I didn't realize I had one nor that they took it out) When they remove your ileocecal valve, some people start having the bile acid diarrhea.

So I had blood drawn yesterday to see if I've got active inflammation with further testing possible once that comes back.

I really don't know which to hope for. At least they're starting to work on the issue now.

What are the solutions for either problem? Former: getting opened up again? :(

Hope it works out really soon, Pete. :comfort:

It's pretty much drugs one way or the other. For A, it's back on the Crohn's drugs. For B, there's another drug, Questran. Both have quality of life implications.