WORK AND CROHN'S

[katta]

I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW CAN YOU GO TO WORK AND HAVE A NORMAL LIFE WHEN YOU HAVE CROHN'S DX?
i have lost so many jobs due to my condition, i am constantly going to the bathroom when i am at work, feeling tired, abdominal pain, and worrying so much to ask for time off to get my ramicade treatment or just beacause i need to go for my check up with my doctor.
please can someone tell me how to deal with it?

thanks
kathy

[UncontrolledSarcasm]

Hi Katta,
  Fill out FMLA (Family Medical Leave of Absence) paperwork when you get a job. Your doctor will have to fill out most of it, but it excuses you from work for all your doctor appointments and treatments related to Crohn's. There are laws that your employer has to follow. Mine still gives me a hassle, but I know that by law, I'm covered.
  I also found that having a 1st shift job helps. You get out of bed and don't have as much time to end up totally exhausted from pain before you go to work. I missed a lot more days on 2nd shift. By the time it was time to go to work, I'd been up for hours, in the bathroom a half dozen times and exhausted. Now I'm up and out the door before I have time to dwell on any of the "****".
Hope you start to feel better!

[katta]

yes! i have tried but i was denied 3 times, so now i had move back with my family so i can stay home but i feel useless and depressed.

thank you

[KentuckyBeMommaw]

Hm, have you tried to get on ssi?