Yeah it sounds like a harsh treatment, and I'm also wary to try it so quickly, especially with how well I'm doing now. He wanted to use it to "maintain" the inflammation/possible crohn's with the remicade, before I was totally off the prednisone. I rather just wait and see what happens, then jump on the remicade train before I should.
He also mentioned the remicade would pretty much be my "last resort" before they talked about me going back to an ileostomy. I thought that was kinda extreme, since I've had my jpouch for over 6 years, I've only had one fistula years ago that wasn't deep and was cut open from the sphincter muscle, healed great and haven't had any fistula issues since. Also my pouch works great, minus the pouchitis/inflammation I've been experiencing since last year. I thought it was a little extreme talking about going back to a permanent ileo if the remicade treatment didn't work, does anyone else agree?