Well, this is my son's last day on the antibiotics and no issues so far. Keeping fingers crossed.

He had upper and lower GI endoscopy on Friday, and the doctor saw nothing visible to suggest Crohns, and no signs of ongoing infection or inflammation in the area where it was previously seen on CT. Although we will have to wait and see what the biopsies show.

Next step is to have him swallow a capsule camera, (to take pictures of the entire length of the small intestine). And an MRI of the intestines to detect any other abnormalities.

At least this happened early in the year. Although the bills haven't hit yet, I'm assuming we are well beyond our out of pocket max - so any other tests or treatments he receives should be 100% covered.

I only saw this post yesterday and was wondering if you can give us an update since he is done with his antibiotics? No pressure if you're not ready.

I hope he has smooth sailing from here on out. We are here to support you.
carol

Hi Pinkynose. My son is back at school and doing pretty well. All the biopsy results were negative, so we still don't know what's going on with him. His course of antibiotics is done, and he hasn't had any side effects - (at least not any short term ones). He is coming home in two weeks to do the MRI on his intestines. Then most likely they will do the capsule camera procedure when he is done with school in May.

Already over $30,000 in medical bills - and we still know nothing other than he had an infection. Its starting to seem a lot like trying to figure out what causes my SFN symptoms.

If he had the Cipro.... remind him of the tendon rupture potential.
This can happen in the future... so remind him to not strain any muscles or do extreme athletics.

Thanks for the reminder - I had forgotten about that side effect. Not too much of a concern with this kid though - he isn't into any heavy duty sports. His exercise is mostly of the low impact/aerobic type (and not as much of that as he should be doing).