Pain does not help in school...any advice?

[bigd123]

I am nursing school and this is my first real semester of it. I switched from Biology and decided that I don't want to go the physician assistant route. I took A&P 1 and 2 over the summer and passed with flying colors. In spring of last year right before my finals I had an attack of Crohn's disease. I missed my finals and had to retake them. I was in the hospital for a few days and had excellent nursing care which really got me into it. The doctor gave me steroids to manage the pain and they worked but once he took me off them (I am steroid dependent) the pain came right back. He then put me on an antibiotic which worked for a while but now has stopped working. He is going to now have to put me on Humira. Even with medication I have my good days and my bad days. On my bad days I can't seem to get anything done and on my good days I am so exhausted from the disease I can't really do as much as I want. I remember last year at this time working a good 5 to 6 hours a day on homework and now I do only about 2 to 3. I am afraid that if this keeps going on I will not make it through Nursing school. It is stressful and stress sometimes brings it on. Does anyone else have a similar problem, if so how do you work around the pain? Thanks