Can u fall pregnant when u have crohns disease

Yes. I have never personally known anyone with it, but a woman on telly in the uk, a singing instructor, can't remember her name now lol, but she is pretty well known in the uk, she has chrohns disease and has got three children. I remember her being very heavily pregnant on telly with the last one talking about her condition!

We live in enlightened times with the internet at our disposal, and as soon as I found out I had diabetes I read just about anything I could find.

So, you can too if you are writing here.

Crohn's disease is a chronic (ongoing) disorder that causes inflammation of the digestive or gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Although it can involve any area of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus, it most commonly affects the small intestine and/or colon. Colitis is similar and both effect the immune system, and I assume this is why you are asking if you have read up on crohns.

I think your best bet is to discuss this with your doctor and let him advise you if you are in fact thinking of becoming pregnant or you already are. Due to the effect on you immune system, this in turn would effect your pregnancy.

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Originally Posted by vabery

can u fall pregnat when u have crohns disease

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Well I have recently been diagnosed with Crohns, I have recently had a baby.
I have had these symptoms for as long as I can remember, I just never went to the Doctor about it.
I think it's definitely possible.

After I had my first child in February 2009, I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease that May. I was prescribed prednisone for the first month to tone it down a lot. Then after that, I took sulfasalazine and folic acid daily to keep it normal and after a year, I stopped taking it and everything remained normal and I was fine. When I became pregnant again in January 2011, I was told that pregnancy actually helps Crohn's patients and I didn't need to worry about it then. Halfway through my pregnancy, the same symptoms started reacurring again and this time it was much worse be cause I was pregnant. My gastroenterologist told me only a few percent of women with crohn's have it acting up during their pregnancy and that I was one of them. I was put back on steroids and had to do a sigmoidoscopy while being wide awake because I could'nt go under anesthesia. In the end, my baby was born that September very healthy. I was able to take a stronger antibiotic and got myself back on track. I was recently hospitalized for reacting badly to a new medicine my doctor put me on, azathioprine. I am now on a live bacterial medicine that has to be refrigerated or it won't work. It is safe to have a child while having crohn's but the after part is questionable for yourself. In my case, I had no signs until after my first child and they reacurred during my second pregnancy and made my crohns worse for me after.