anyone on 150mg of imuran? plus any zofran tips

i am on 150 mg of Azasan (Azathioprine). My only bad side effect has been hairloss-a lot. Good side effects? I can eat anything/everything without any repercussions although I have not tried beets but I wouldn't eat them even if i didn't have CD. I don't take any other Rx's and I feel great, well, almost great.

good health,
laura

I have been on 150mg of Imuran for the last year and I haven't had any side effects.  I have been feeling a lot better and can actually eat some of the things that I counldn't before.

150mg is normal, I just started at 75mg (going onto day 5 now)

I take it around 2pm, I feel a little dizzy since I began it but then again i'm on pred and tapering every week so it could be that.

I haven't got the nausea side effect so I think i'm good. I know it's too soon to tell i'm feeling better as Imuran can take months to fully kick in, but I feel a tad better the last two days, is that from the Imuran already? I doubt it can be, or am I wrong? LOL

thanks everyone, I take my imuran in the AM. I had terrible nausea before starting any meds and it actually went away for a while while on imuran/ pentasa/entocort so imuran may not be the reason. the only meds i take at night are a muscle relaxer and my pentasa. I am glad 150 is a pretty normal dose. I took my first 150 this morning. the zofran worked great this morning. My insurance only pays for 30 pills a month of the generic because it is a costly drug. That really made me mad cause it is mainly used for chemo patients and they would need it more than once a day. makes me angry :( thanks everyone! I knew I could count on all of you for info! really helped me not worry about taking the medicine. I was a littel weary of uping the dose. Karen

Karendee I take Zofran 8 mg. first thing every morning. I get up really early everyday (3:30 am) and take it then. Sometimes if I am having a bad day, I will take another about 6-8 hours later. Don't use Imuran, so no tips there, other than when I did take it I took it at bedtime. That helped with the nausea.

I take 150 mg of imuran too since the 3rd of oct. I had some hairloss from the asacol but it went on turbo boost the first 1.5 months I went on the imuran although now it seems to have stabilized as of this past week. I'm not bald but my hair thinned out a lot so 2 haircuts later you can't notice it and people actually think I look cute! LOL if they only knew WHY I cut my hair.

Um I take mine at:

noon
6pm
midnight (cause I work nightshift and those times work for me)

I am most nauseus from taking it up to about 45 min after and then it goes away. I actually tolerate it more if I eat a lil something while taking it. I will tell you that the first couple of weeks the nausea kicked my butt and I was even more tireder than I already was so it is good that you got zofran for that NOW.

what else.... I started noticing a difference in how I felt after about 2 weeks. I know they say that you won't get the full effect until 8 weeks so I am kind of excited to see what the full effect will be. My stools started getting more normalish in consistency and the fluctuations are now less and less. I was on asacol for 2.5 months and although I didn't have D all the time, I still was fluctuating between C and D EVERYDAY but I was afraid of taking the imuran cause I wasn't too keen on taking a chemo drug. I'm ok with taking it now but I would rather have the option of going off of it someday to have kids. I already did this once I started the asacol but make sure to take vitamins and a probiotic. Just in case.

oh here's a p.s. just know that you might be more succeptible to the cooties floating around. OMG I got a measly simple cold which my old body could kick in 4 days and it took me 20 days to get over it.

Take care

you're welcome... so many people on here have helped me and if giving my experience helps someone I feel like I gave back.

I don't know if you do flu shots (very controversial subject on here) but that cold scared the crap out of me so I got one anyway on the 21st day. mercury or no mercury (I already eat fish and am on a chemo drug so what's a little more something in my body). I don't know if it will work but heck I work in a pediatric urgent care with the lil rug rats so I thought why not. =0)

bellenstein.... my doc said I have to take both the asacol and the imuran. WOW I didn't know that once you went on the imuran that you could even drop the first line drug..... something to look into. =0)

Iv'e been on Imuran 150mg for over a year now,BEFORE the Imuran I would gag EVERY morning really bad,but since Iv'e been on Imuran,I have felt great,I'm now on Humira to try to additionally get the inflammation down.

I have been on 200 but the Prometheus test showed it's still not at a therapeutic level. So the doctor upped it to 250, and I have to have the test again next week. I think that's as high as he's willing to try; he said if it's still not doing anything we'd "give humira a shot." I said, "literally, you mean." I am wondering whether medicare pays for that. Prescription plans don't cover injectables, if I remember correctly. Anyone know? I'm off the remicade now, since it had stopped working.

Sugarmarie , I got the generic zofran and it is a pill you swallow and it is not working that well for me :( maybe there is a difference in the generic? if Imuran is by body weight then no wonder i am needing more I am chubby! Lois, I also had that test and I am waiting for the results... Karen