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I Mom age 60 was diagnosed last year with Crohns. In the past month she has been barely eating and extremely tired to the point where she wasn't getting out of bed. She has lost 10 pounds in 2 weeks and is now 116 pounds. She is 5 ft 6 inches
My dad and I brought her to the ER 2 weeks ago where they did an x-ray, ECG, blood work and took her blood pressure. It was 80/48. They told her her iron was super low and gave her three units of blood. She felt great for three days but is now tired all the time again.
She had a CT Scan last week and was told her bowel is looped and twisted. Her doctor is putting her on Humira as he has tried other medications that haven't helped such as steroids, Sulphasalazine and Methotrazate.
For the past 5 weeks she has been on 4 iron pills daily. So I am concerned still about her iron. Shouldn't it have gone up in the time period? It is no life sleeping all the time and she is cold all the time also.
He wants to see if Humira makes a difference but has told her she is at a higher risk for an obstruction.
I feel he isn't doing enough? Should she get a second opinion or bring her back to the ER? She doesn't have a family doctor and he is going to India for 2 months next month. She doesn't see him again until May 10th
Thank you for any help.View Thread

She has had the first 4 injections of Humira 10 days ago and has another injection on Wednesday. I called our Telehealth where you can talk to a registered nurse. We had a teleconference with my Mom and her. She recommended we see a doctor within the next 24 hours.
It is to the point now where even juice is causing her extreme pain. But she is still having bowel movements although now it is diahrea so there is not a complete obstruction but I think it is close enough to being one. She has been vomitting also but only twice in the past 2 weeks. She is afraid to eat because she knows she will be in pain afterwards. She is going to call the GI's sectretary tomorrow morning to see if she can get in quicker then May 10th and if she can't then I am bringing her to a walk in clinic.View Thread

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