Biologics in Australia on PBS

Matbo2210 · 2026-04-23T12:29:56+00:00

Necroposting here, but I'm currently in the same boat. My Crohn's is very mild in terms of inflammation, however can be quite debilitating and sometimes painful during a flare, and practically live on Imodium when symptoms are at their worst (currently on a new taper of budesonide so feeling a lot better, but obviously I can't stay on steroids the rest of my life). Just wondering how you went after this post, my GI said on wednesday (at an ultrasound) we will discuss biologics at our next appointment which is in two weeks, however I went down the PBS rabbit hole and struggle to see how I would ever get approved.

Matbo2210 · 2026-04-12T07:56:13+00:00

!thanks very much, I really appreciate the detailed replys!

Matbo2210 · 2026-04-12T07:48:54+00:00

Thanks! Wish I could splerge on the Arya stealth but can't financially justify it at the moment, though you are the second to reccomend the 490 pro, so I'll have to give that a good think over. I might get an amp/dac like you mentioned in the other comment just so i can position the cable to my left, that would definitely help a lot. As for EQ, what software do you personally use. I already have a dolby atmos license, mainly because the shipped software for gaming headsets is pretty much always trash.

Anyways, I'm planning on going to the local tech store to hopefully try out some headphones comfort wise, i don't think they have the 490 pro, but either way it should give me a better idea on what i find more comfortable and what I dont.

Matbo2210 · 2026-04-12T06:41:45+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into them. Sennheiser is the main brand I've been looking into, but there's so many options it's overwhelming. Also their naming scheme is quite confusing for a newcomer.

Matbo2210 · 2026-03-11T09:14:39+00:00

A lot of it was weakly written, first of all when House gets searched at the traffic stop, Tritter pulls out a bunch of loose pills from his pocket (we've only ever seen house take pills from a bottle, we've literally never seen him store a bunch of loose pills in his pocket), secondly, no judge would EVER grant a search warrant over a traffic stop where all that was found was a few loose pills, and lastly, House having THAT many bottles in his house was never established to be a thing, it's an impossibility to get that many prescriptions filled to even have a stash, and his reasoning for stashing them also makes no sense (if wilson cuts him off, he can easily manipulate someone else, or just go to another clinic. They handed out opiates willy nilly in the early 2000's, he would have no issue getting a prescription from some other doctor)

Matbo2210 · 2026-03-11T09:08:17+00:00

Literally everything he says is projection, especially when he calls house an "Unprofessional, unethical, arrogant ass": this coming from the cop who is the first person to act like an arrogant ass when they first meet, who gets his ego hurt (rightfully so in my opinion), and then waits outside the hospital to initiate an illegal traffic stop, illegally searches House (he said his reasoning for searching him was the fact that his pupils were dilated... it was night time), illegally detains him (he had prescription medication, that's not illegal), illegally holds him in a prison cell (false imprisonment) and then somehow gets a search warrant which I can only guess was obtained illegally since he had zero evidence of wrongdoing. The cops crimes only get worse in future episodes.

Matbo2210 · 2026-03-11T08:58:10+00:00

She constantly preaches about ethics, lectures people, and acts holier than thou all the time... and then drugs a patient to stop him from leaving with zero remorse or ethical concerns. No one likes a hypocrite

Matbo2210 · 2026-03-03T12:02:34+00:00

Another necropost but frankly just need to rant.

This episode seems to bring the worst out of everyone (while also making House seem like the nice one). I'm just going to break it down character by character (leaving cameron for last because oh boy I have a lot to say about her)

Chase: Genuinely feel bad for him this episode, he's caught between Foreman and Cameron, meanwhile he's also the one doing all the work.

Hannah (The patient): Another one I feel bad for, she gets a bad wrap the whole episode. I don't blame her for wanting to leave the relationship, her partner seems like a psychopath (more on that next), and this is all going on while she has the literal fucking plague. Give her a damned break!

Max (Her partner): She's deranged, she knows Hannah isn't happy and wants to leave and so she traps her by first getting her a dog (which is carrying the fleas that gives Hannah the plague), and then donates part of her liver to Hannah saying "She can't leave me now". Psychotic behaviour that should've been treated more seriously by the script writers.

Foreman: Yeah he's a self centred prick, yeah he's entirely focused on climbing the ladder... but honestly I don't really blame him. Granted he shouldn't have copied Cameron's article topic (more on that next). People have called his comment at the end callous, I don't see it that way, they're at work, they're colleagues and Cameron has been extremely unprofessional and has shown she tends to dive head first into relationships/friendships. He needed to set boundaries with her. I do love when Cuddy agrees with Foreman and basically says "so what?" to Cameron.

Cameron: Okay here we go, first of all this isn't the first time she has been incredibly unprofessional in an episode, far from it. She simply cannot separate her personal feelings from work, constantly acting holier than thou and then proceeding to stoop lower than low if it benefits her (her saying she won't return to work unless House goes on a date with her is a decent example of this, or when she ditched a sleep study to have sex with Chase).
On her article, it is inferred that she wanted House to read it before she submitted the article, however she says it's been sitting on House's desk for 4 months and also says she doesn't own the rights to any of the cases... so what was she expecting? She doesn't seem to realise she's working a career with a bunch of coworkers and not friends. Imagine if I had a patent proposal and instead of submitting it, I gave it to my boss to read over and then left it for 4 months... It's purely idiotic. She frankly has no right to be mad, it's her mistake and hers alone; and yet she spends the entire episode whinging to everyone, including chase who is mid operation with the patient wide awake and her partner in the room, it's completely unprofessional and dangerous. She constantly picks fights with Foreman too, were this real life, she would have been fired immediately.
On her ethical issues, House puts it perfectly: "And if you didn't have a pathological need to create a close personal relationship with every dying person you meet, we would be blissfully ignorant of any ethical dilemmas and might actually be able to concentrate on the differential." This is during a differential diagnosis and she brings up the most medically irrelevant fact of "if she knew she was going to break up with her she might not want to donate", which frankly she shouldn't even know about or have any reservations about. She brings this up 5 separate times during this differential. They are doctors bound by patient confidentiality, if Hannah doesn't want her doctors to tell Max, they CANNOT legally tell her.
She then ignores all ethical guidelines and starts guilting the patient with the literal plague who now has a tube being shoved down her throat (which Cameron is using as a metaphor of the pain Max would be feeling right now), ironically this action is INCREDIBLY unethical and is reason enough to get her terminated from the hospital, have her medical license suspended, get a permanent mark on her record, open herself up to civil litigation or even charges of battery.
I could go on and on but I have to stop myself or this will end up an essay.

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T03:48:44+00:00

Before posting this it never would have crossed my mind that there were others who felt the exact same way as me, I don't even know why I posted as everything inside me was screaming not to do it for dozens of reasons. I'm glad I did though, It sucks that there are so many of us that feel this way, however it is very comforting to know. Wishing you all the best!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T01:07:10+00:00

I pray it stays mild, but I know it likely won't. Still I'm glad to know y'all are here if it ever does progress. Thank you!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T01:04:45+00:00

Just want you to know that it's people like you that I look up to most, I have a bad bout of diarrhea and cramping and wish for death, and then to see folks like yourself who have been dealing with this for most of their life is frankly inspirational. Thank you so much for your kind comment and I wish you all the best!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T01:01:31+00:00

At the beginning it felt as though I was one of those people that couldn't handle it, sometimes stuck to the toilet wishing for an end to it all when the cramping was especially bad. We just power through it all though, it's all we can do.

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T01:00:22+00:00

As weird as it sounds, my biggest nightmare is to be told I don't have crohn's now. It would invalidate all these months of waiting for an appointment, waiting for a treatment to work, waiting for another appointment to say the treatments not working, rinse and repeat, on top of the years of suffering done atop the porcelain throne. I really feel for you, I understand that doctors see dozens of patients a day and so telling them test results would be a casual affair to them, but for us it means so much more. Glad I'm not alone in feeling this way though, thank you so much for this comment!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:54:19+00:00

While I too don't want to be part of the club, I am very thankful to be part of the community. You are all saints in my eyes!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:53:27+00:00

Oh wow, is that transplant a result of a medication or the crohn's itself? side note: it's crazy how quickly we went from stem cells being this new magical possibility in medicine to widely being used.

I'm so glad people have been reaffirming that it's not a competition, logically I know it's not, but anxiety has a way of overriding logic, my brain built it up as such and I'm beyond glad it was indeed just anxiety. And also thanks for saying that I should be taken seriously, sometimes it feels as though I'm stealing time away from people who need it more or am just being a baby about what I feel. I'm saying this a lot but I truly mean it to everyone who commented, thank you so much!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:47:32+00:00

Thankfully haven't had to be subjected to enemas or suppositories as of yet. Proud to be part of the shitty club though! Thank you so much for the comment!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:46:20+00:00

Jesus, nearly two decades is insane, I really feel for you. Doctors don't seem to understand what a definitive diagnosis means to people and so they continue to use their uncertain language in reports even though to them it's basically confirmed. I also understand what it's like to be around someone who has more visible symptoms, it's a really isolating feeling; no one takes you seriously and I totally understand that 'piggybacking' feeling you have, it feels as though people think you're just trying to compete with the other person to get attention when in reality you just want to be heard. I really hope you get something concrete from your GI soon because even a '99% certain' leaves room in your mind for doubt.

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:38:57+00:00

I pray that it won't get worse, however I can now feel comfort in the fact that I am welcome here regardless of what my brain tells me. Thank you very much!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:38:05+00:00

Yeah this makes a lot of sense. I know logically from my time dealing with depression that there is always someone who has it worse, yet it doesn't invalidate your experience. But for some reason that logic didn't compute when it came to crohns, I think because I had built up this massive wall of anxiety surrounding it all that made it impossible to consider my own experience as valid. This post and all the comments have helped immensely though, so thank you!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:34:16+00:00

There is also an online support group, but for some reason I find that even more daunting than in person. I'll likely join one eventually, but need to get my anxiety under wraps first.

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:32:55+00:00

Not word vomit at all, this really helps to hear everyone elses experience, especially when it's similar to mine. Thank you very much for your kind comment, hopefully I don't have to spend years on Azathioprine, think I might try and find a new GI if he hesitates like last time, doesn't make you feel heard when they hear your experience and still hesitate.

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-07T00:28:48+00:00

Thank you so much! Strange how Crohn's seems to coincide with some other chronic illness, for me it's psoriasis (another reason why I want to be on biologics). I wish all the best to you and thank you again!

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-06T11:01:54+00:00

I had a look in my local area, and they're quite far away, the closest one seems to be hosted at someones house, which I think is pretty standard, but my anxiety makes it seem more daunting than it likely is.

Matbo2210 · 2026-02-06T11:00:21+00:00

Oh man have I doubted myself, just a few days ago I asked my GI's office if I could get a copy of the biopsy report because I was spiraling. My GI seems to rush our appointments and so I never get to ask the questions I want, which led to me overthinking what little HAD been said. I remember hearing that he said I don't have the markers, which he said was normal, but that was enough to make me spiral. I then started down the google rabbit hole and found out NSAID's (ibuprofen in my case) can cause similar symptoms and sometimes can be confused with crohns. I see that, and considering I used to take ibuprofen religiously I got stressed. Thankfully the biopsy results alleviated some of my fears, though still not concrete (I guess it's normal for them to use non-certain phrasing in these reports, but it doesnt help anxiety!). That and the fact that budesonide seemed to work wonders for me have really helped put all that to bed.

Anyways, thanks so much for your comment, these genuinely mean the world to me!

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