A breakthrough!?
Hope for those with inflammatory bowel disease
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A breakthrough!?
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/05/bowel-disease-hope-researchers-find-biological-pathway
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wwdd6v2wjo
“The aim is to start clinical trials within five years.”
Something to aspire to when I retire, perhaps?
Hope to live long enough to get some benefit. My consultant tells me that treatment to reduce inflammation has come on leaps and bounds in last decade or so. I may need to move away from injecting Humira as the body may eventually become resistant to it. He told me there are 3 other drugs we can try, 1 taken orally (yes please!), another that is similarly injected and a third one that is supplied by an IV (no thanks!).
Does this mean that the Eagles will have to change the lyrics to Hotel California…… ?
“Warm small of colitis rising up through the air…….”
I guess I killed the thread with a shit joke…….
It’s the typo what done it. Otherwise you’d be tucking into a LOFFLEX hamper.
Dai and I are the two high-profile IBD patients here on the AW, but most are diagnosed in their teens or early 20s.
Where are the AW IBD Yoof?
I was 36 when diagnosed
I was 43, I’ve always been late to everything.
52 me. Just before England got beat in that Euro final by Italy.
Then I took Mercaptopurine. Which virtually immediately gave me pancreatitis and 5 days in hospital, and an appreciation of the joy of an armful of morphine. Now I’m Imraldi-fied .
So far so good, touch wood.
Fingers crossed, like the rest of you fine people.
We’re not doing very well at bringing the average age down, though, are we?
Think I’m kind of similar as I had to have 80% of my bowel, plus the whole of my colon, removed after the discovery of a growth there a couple of years ago.Now recuperating after the op to reverse the consequent ileostomy and stoma. Again, I don’t do much in terms of bringing the average age down (56 if you’re wondering – though why you would be I don’t know).