Hi Allison,

I think you shouldn't be worrying about all this now.
Focus on your college degree now and worry about kids
later. New medications and treatments are being
developed, and by the time you finish college and get
married, there may be better treatments.

I have been on Imuran (similar to 6mp) for about 4
years now - why would the doctor take you off a
medication which is working? There is no "time limit"
for this medication. Long-term, 6mp has less side
effects than prednisolone.

Take care,

Amy.




--- Allison <punkrawkchic1986@...> wrote:

> 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.




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