Pentassa, is it effective??

I am having a lot of rectal issues and unfortunately the doctors don't know what's going on with me. I have seen CRS and GI. The GI I have only seen twice. He is stating that after my colonoscopy he would want to put me on prednisone. And if that didn't work 6mp and pentassa. I have read some replies on here about how pentassa is not effective for crohns (which they still don't know if this is a crohns flare or something else as I don't have any abdominal pain or D)
Any insight on this topic? Trying to figure out if I need to find a new and more current GI.
Also, I looked on the crohns colitis foundation because I thought that's where I could find a GI that specializes in crohns but the only doc that came up in my area was my colorectal surgeon??! Any other sites for this?
Thanks!

Thanks for the reply Gumby44! Good to hear. I just didn't want to take something that may not do a thing. And I thought the GI maybe didn't know what he was talking about. He actually referred me back to the CRS as he said it was more her field, but she's saying it's the Crohns and wants GI to handle it. They are totally contradicting each other!

From your sig, it seems like you have had abscesses/fistulas - your GI is indeed out of his depth if he thinks Pentasa is going to help fistulising Crohn's disease. And not being on any other meds except Prednisone for two months 'to see if it works' is a waste of time, too. It won't work, at least not in the sense of healing anything, although it may mask some symptoms.

Like gumby already suggested, try crohnsforum.com for GI recommendations. If that doesn't work, then just pick a GI out of a hat in the next state along and try them. To some extent, it's pot luck finding a good doctor.

Ooohhh it's all so frustrating!! On top of it all the Drs are totally contradicting each other!

Healthgrades.com and Google other GI's in your area, both have been very helpful to me in finding a good local GI and also looking up what other patient's have had as experience with them. It's fairly new, this idea that we can reflect our experiences and it's not just the docs giving out grades these days - but I like it :)

I'm on Pentasa, supposedly forever. I find the stuff only somewhat useful but has low side effects and my doc insists it's helping (heheh). The thing about that is it is a delivery method for mesalamine, it releases in the small bowel instead of like Asacol (same stuff) that is in a harder pill and releases in the large intestine, so it really depends on where the crohn's is active as to which one they will recommend to you. This is a sulfa drug, one of the many that have been around for a loooong time, so many of the GI's that are 'old school' tend to go there, it does help a bit but maybe not as noticeably as some of the newer drug classes.