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What great hopeful news!
I am thrilled for you, and I hope this will make your life much better.
New to posting here, been reading DU for about a year now. I was thinking about joining but didn’t know where to start until I saw your post.
I’m in a similar boat here, 10th year of battling Crohn’s, diagnosed at 15. It’s been infuriatingly persistent. I have a biologic infusion every 8 weeks, and take a new immunosuppressant twice a day, nothing else before showed meaningful results.
Insurance companies (normally) won’t allow certain treatments to be prescribed until you’ve tried and failed all the treatments on their list. I think it’s called step therapy. Sometimes I wonder if I could’ve avoided having a permanent ileostomy if they had been more aggressive in the early stages of mine. I just hope Orange Satan doesn’t put us into a recession/depression/anything worse, there’s only so much some of us can do to prepare for disasters of that scale, meds and supplies are expensive.
Anyway, don’t neglect anti-nausea meds, and keep eating, drinking, and moving around as best you can. Stay strong!
and it complicated EVERY line of attack of her cancer treatment. Horrible, horrible disease, and FAWK the insurance. Prayers, positive vibes, and love being sent your way. 