u/ReverberatingEchoes

I’m sharing here because I’m sure a lot of us have included wipes in our daily routine.

The Target brand up and up wipes have been recalled because some have been found to contain a sepsis-causing bacteria.

I’m very scared because I just used the wipes YESTERDAY and I have a fistula and used it to clean it. I’m so worried that I just allowed bacteria to enter my fistula and that would be an absolute nightmare. I’ve already had sepsis before because of the abscess that caused the fistula, I don’t want to have sepsis again. And it’s crazy to think that I could potentially get sepsis again all because I tried to keep my fistula clean. Can’t win.

I HATE that you are required to get Rinvoq through a specialty pharmacy. They are so slow with getting the prescription filled. This is the second time they've screwed me over. I just switched to Rinvoq after failing Infliximab, the pharmacy was so slow last time that my doctor had to order samples from the manufacturer and give them to me instead because the pharmacy literally just never filled it... even though more than a week had gone by since the request was put it (and it was an expedited request).

I took my last Rinvoq pill last night and now I have no more. The specialty pharmacy hasn't filled my prescription AGAIN. And the specialty pharmacy is closed on weekends... So I guess I'm just going completely without my medication this weekend (and possibly longer if the pharmacy doesn't fill it on Monday).

Why is the specialty pharmacy so awful?? They manage prescriptions of people with complex conditions that require strict management/maintenance and yet they treat their prescriptions like garbage and ignore them.

Does anyone else feel like with having Crohn's, you don't really ever FEEL hunger, you just know you have to eat.

For me, ever since I developed Crohn's, needing to eat has turned into a knowing rather than a feeling. I can remember before Crohn's, I used to actually feel hungry, my stomach would signal to me that I was hungry. But with Crohn's, I just feel like that signal is totally absent.

I'll know I need to eat because either 1) I feel weak and my vision starts dimming and I get light headed 2) I get a migraine 3) it's been too long since I've last eaten.

But, I don't *feel* it in my stomach. I don't have any intense desire to eat food. It's just that I know I have to eat because my body is telling me in other ways (like symptomatically: dizzy, weak, migraine) or just realizing it's 4PM and I haven't even had breakfast yet.