I went in to see my Crohn's doctor the other day and he brought up
the subject of having kids. I told him that I want to wait til after
I'm married and til I'm a little older because right now I'm only 19
and trying to get into college. But we talked about it anyways. He
said that he wants me to talk to him (and obviously my ob/gyn,
family doctor, and my neurologist) since I'm on a lot of different
kinds of medicines (some of them being anit-seizure medications for
headaches that I get from a benign brain tumor that's still left
wrapped around my brain stem). And he said as for the 6mp, I'll have
to be off of it for 3 months before I start trying that way there's
no chance of it still being in my system because of the chance of
birth deffects. And he said as I go off of the 6mp then I'll have to
go on steriods to try and control the Crohn's, and then after I get
pregnant and a month after I have to baby I'll go back on 6mp. This
all sounds great right? Well the thing is is that I'm supposed to be
going off of the 6mp in March because he said that he only wanted me
to be on it for 2 years at a time, but now that's changed and it
sounds like he just wants me to stay on it. My Mom thinks that it's
because of the fact that I've been doing really good while on it
(except for Liver Disease scares), but I tell her that I don't know
about that one. I think that it might be because of the fact that
I'm sicker then they want to say. It's not like doctors haven't done
it to me before within the last 11 years that I've been diagnosed
with Crohn's. It's just that I wish that they would be honest with
me about it.