Medicine and Procedures
When diagnosed with a new chronic illness, you will experience a whole new side of medicine. You’ll try new treatment options, and undergo new procedures. This page provides some of the medical information needed to prepare you for the next stage of treatment. This information is only a starting point: be sure to talk to your doctors about any questions you have before undergoing a new procedure or taking a new medicine.
Medicine and Procedures
1. Awake colonoscopy (10:03)
2. Blood transfusion (4:12)
3. Colonoscopy (5:18)
4. Endoscopy (5:26)
5. Enema (5:03)
6. Experience the MRI process (5:55)
7. Fernpixel’s colonoscopy prep (4:08)
8. Getting a PICC line (7:54)
9. IBD Medicine (7:35)
10. Laparoscopic cecostomy to address pediatric intestinal motility disorder (5:40)
11. New colon cancer detection method: Third Eye Retroscope (2:18)
12. Pain scales in healthcare (7:23)
13. PICC line (4:30)
14. Pouchoscopy (1:57)
15. Prednisone (2:23)
16. Preparing for a capsule endoscopy (8:50)
17. Remicade (4:20)
18. Remicade infusion (9:49 and 9:17)
19. Sigmoidoscopy (3:55)
20. Small bowel series (4:44)
21-22. Stephanie’s sidmoidoscopy prep and results (8:52 and 4:15)
Medical Information
2. The GI tract (2:52)
3. Pets and IBD (14:39)
Useful Links
Colonoscopy.com: Questions and answers about one of the most embarrassing–but incredibly useful–medical procedures.
Partnership for Prescription Assistance: At no charge, they will help qualifying patients who don’t have prescription drug coverage get the medicines that they need by helping them find the companies and programs that are right for them. Many will get their medications free or nearly free.
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