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Having trouble being diagnosed with crohn's. my med seem to be working, if i come off them for a while to see if symptoms return. would this help me??
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Diagnosis of Crohn's: Crohn's disease is a diagnosis made by a pathologist on a biopsy specimen submitted by a gastroenterologist after a colonoscopy. It is not a clinical diagnosis! Do you have a biopsy proven diagnosis or is it just a guess? Make sure you really have the right diagnosis first!
Answered 4/27/2016
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