I was put on 6MP in the hospital about six years ago, within days of being diagnosed with Crohn's. This was my first hospital stay, so I was already a bit apprehensive. The nurse walking in gloved, carrying a tiny bottle - sealed and labeled "CAUTION: CHEMOTHERAPY" - did not really help matters. I was extremely hesitant to swallow something that no one else would even touch, but I was sick and desperate enough to try anything that might make me feel better. So I took it. And took it again the next day. And again. I was on a Prednisone high at that point, happily able to function "normally" again, but my doctor said that it would take a while to kick in, but it would help keep me well once I was off the steroids, and I believed him. Over the next four years, I suppose it might have been helping... maybe. It's hard to say, really, looking back. I definitely was better than I was in the hospital or before treatment, but I didn't really have the energy to spend too long on my feet doing much of anything. At the time, I just took it with a grimace that the fatigue was just part of being chronically ill. But some more serious symptoms did flare up every now and then - maybe once or twice a year. I was given Prednisone and Entocort in such cases, and the symptoms quickly went away, so I thought little of them - until they returned, of course. And then, after four years, within the span of about a month, without any visible bleeding, my red blood cell counts depleted... to the point of me needing to be hospitalized and given three blood transfusions. No one really wanted to say that it was the 6MP, but my doctors never really told me anything else conclusive about what happened. After that hospital stay, I was switched from 6MP to Remicade treatments. Comparatively, since the switch, I have had virtually no symptoms and have at least five times the energy I had on 6MP. I'm sure 6MP works for some people, but it does have its risks, and it just didn't work out for me.Read More Read Less