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What is your opinion of biologic's vs long term antibiotic use ?

I was told by multiple GIs that biologics are the LAST line/last resort of treatment. I have not gotten there yet and to directly answer your question, I think long term antibiotics, if rotated and used carefully, are safer than biologics.

Long term antibiotics have always worked in my case to keep pouchitis in check (if not eliminating it), so you don't go to the last line of treatment unless everything else has failed. So as long as the antibiotics keep working I am not going there. But if the choice is biologics or losing the J Pouch and going to an ileostomy, I will choose biologics.

8/15/149:58 PM

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