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Description: therawfoodworld.com/product-category/at-cost Order at link above All of a sudden I am having flashbacks, I am haunted with regret, yet I am at peace at the same time. Just know, that I truly am in peace, happy and ok about everything. I just had flashbacks, and as you will learn a possible missed opportunity to save my colon if I had the knowledge that I had now. So all of a sudden, in these flashbacks, I was being brought back to the decision to get surgery and remove my colon. There were factors that I didn’t understand then, that I understand now, which could have prevented the need for the surgery, and this is why I am haunted with regret. This next part is where I get a bit nervous revealing what happened to me, because I know that many of you care for me immensely, and you will be upset. I have always done well on Prednisone whenever I was plagued with ulcers. Before I got the surgery, we were doing a one last attempt for me to go on the Biologic Entyvio. The problem is it can take up to 6 months to start working. My GI doctors didn’t want me on high doses of prednisone at the same time as taking the Biologic, because they were worried I would be too immunocompromised. They came up with the plan to instead put me on another Biologic pill type drug called Xeljanz, which they had samples of sitting in their hospital room, that supposedly works in just a week. The goal was to put me on that so I could come off prednisone so I could wait for the Entyvio to work so I could be off the prednisone and be out of the immunocompromised area to their liking. Their plan of weaning me off prednisone didn’t work and every night I would end up screaming healed over in pain on the couch, screaming for hours that I need surgery. I was in so much pain it was crazy. I didn’t think to myself at that time that I could just take my full dose of prednisone and be fine and healthy like I am now. I have always done well on prednisone. So at that time, because I didn’t know or think that the prednisone could help me, I decided to get surgery. On top of that the Surgeon was urging me to get surgery at the same time, and it felt like he was money driven for his own pocket book at the time, and I didn’t feel good about it. He said things to me like, in the long-run these drugs don’t work and you’ll have to do the surgery at some point, you should do it now, etc. However, now, he is telling me how good these drugs are, telling me it should clear my ulcerated pouch up immediately and hopefully I won’t need to get a bag for many years to come. So here I was healed over in pain, in need, and rushed to the hospital to do elective surgery. I was then misdiagnosed, and now I have my colon removed and I am in the exact same position as I was in when I was healed over on the couch. If I were to go off the prednisone right now, I would be in the same exact position I was in before. If I would have just not cared about their immunocompromised worries, stayed on the prednisone, and waited for the Entyvio to work, then I may have made it with my colon. The surgeon also said, watch after we remove the colon, we’ll take an autopsy and I bet the colon is dead. When I brought that up later, it was dodged and ignored as if my colon wasn't dead when they checked the autopsy. So now here I am in the same exact position where the Prednisone is saving my life as I wait for my Humira. This time I’m not even giving them the option to worry about me being immunocompromised and not allowing me to take prednisone. She hinted that 60mg is too much and I pretty much told her I’m walking, I’m living life etc, and she was fine with it as she knows they can’t budge me on this one. So I am haunted with idea that I could have just stayed on the prednisone as I waited for the Entyvio to work, but at that time, I didn’t realize that the prednisone was the weighing factor keeping me out of pain and doing good at the time. If I would have known what I know now, I may still have my colon. However, before my surgery when I got my colonoscopy, the main head GI doctor said my colon was super ulcerated and that I needed surgery. He thought the Entyvio only had a 30% chance of working tops. He may have been correct. I was so malnourished because of these ulcers, I ended up with Osteoperosis, which is unheard of in a guy my age like myself, and I even needed a pic line to nourish myself in the hospital before the surgery, because I wasn't get the nourishment I needed. This all points to the fact that I needed the surgery, but whenenever they put me on prednisone IV, I healed up, and when I took high doses of prednisone at home I was fine. Even though I probably needed the surgery, I didn't get that one last chance with Prednisone coupled with Entyvio to try to avoid it. If I would have known what I know now, how Prednisone was the key factor in keeping me well short term, I would have taken that last chance.