Is this just a coincedence?

I got diagnosed with U/C almost 4 years ago..... Well, this last June, my husband started having abdominal pain and constipation. He went to his GP who prescribed him a laxative and sent him home. He took the laxative and it had no effect on his problem. So he went back to the dr because his pain was getting worse and they ordered a CT scan... The scan came back positive for Diverticulitis.. So, his GP (who should have referred him IMMEDIATLY to a GI) prescribed Cipro for 7 days..  He took it perfectly, felt better and 4 days later after stopping the antibiotics the pain and constipation came back, but worse...  So he called his GP who again prescribed him Cipro for 10 days this time.. He again took the meds perfectly and this time felt better for about 10 days. Then WHAMO, the pain came back and was really bad, so his GP finally referred him to a GI.... (GOOD CALL).. So he went to see the GI and got prescribed Cipro AND Flagyl and was to take them both for 14 days.... Once again, he did the meds perfectly, even though they made him nauseas the entire time he was on them and this time it was only 3 days and the pain came back and was so severe he made me take him up to the E.R..... While there, they gave him diluadid (sp) for pain and he felt better so they sent him home.... All was well until the very next night in the middle of the night(about 2am tuesday)... He woke up around midnight and started having to go poopie.... They were very smalll pieces and black in color, he was in INTENSE pain and began to vomit about every 5 minutes.... This went on for almost 2 hours, him sitting on the pot and leaning over into the bathtub to vomit.. At about 3am, when he could hardly walk, I finally called 911 and had him taken back to the E.R...   Once there, they gave him anti nausea meds and they really helped and he stopped vomiting. They gave him pain meds and got him stable and admitted him... That morning the told us he was scheduled for a colonoscopy Wednesday am (this morning).. The procedure went well and they found his sigmoid colon full of ulcers and very red and irritated. The rest of his colon looked ok but they did random biopsies to rule out crohns disease. So it looks like he has U/C and the put him on Prednisone and Asacol.... He takes the pred for 5 days then stops, but stays on Asacol, 2 pills 3x daily....  I am wondering if taking 50mg of pred for 5 days then stopping without tapering is ok???? Seems to me he should taper off due to the fact that he was violently ill....

  Anyhow.. this is too weird.. we have the same disease now and are both flaring at the same time!!!

MY HUSBAND and i both have UC.  we present differently.  once our vet mentioned that maybe the cat had colitis...that was weird...the cat is fine now

Hello everyone and thanks for the replies, He's sitting here right next to me and I swear, he's a new man this morning.. The prednisone has him feeling better than he has in weeks, in just one day!! Quincy, I've got a feeling you are right about it being antibiotic induced.. he was on so many for so long.., although I did have him taking 2 culturelle a day while he was on them all.... AND, the environment and bacteria factors.. listen to this!!! We both drink our well water and that is going to stop. Another thing that is weird... We are the only house on our sreet that has had nobody with cancer. We live in a rural area and everyone has well water. My next door neighbor died of rectal cancer a couple of years ago, and my other neighbor has prostate cancer that has spread and he's in the last stages of the disease. My OTHER neighbor had bladder cancer but is doing fine now 6 years later... And, we all have well water... So, I bought up tons of bottled water "Purified" and we'll be drinking that from now on. All ths factors in to a probable cause..... Anyhow, I gotta run for now... Oh Quincy, I am flaring also, the worst blood I've ever had and cramping, but not feeling too bad so I am back on rectal meds... I'm going to see if I can get a pred pack to nip this in the bud though.... since our GI's work in the same office and are FANTASTIC... . I swear, we are both so lucky to have the dr's we have...

I was diagnosed back in '97. My maternal grandmother died from colon cancer. Noone else in my family has every had UC. My mother has IBD. I was pretty much symptom free for 10 years and all of a sudden it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm still unable to get out of my flare. My husband has recently been going to the bathroom more often with D. We have well water, but we don't drink it. We also grew up in different states. Where I grew up there was a very high number of people with different types of cancer. I blame my genetic marker on living in that area. Very highly contaminated area. I never wanted to have children because I didn't want to pass this on to them.

Howdy again.... We heard from my Hubby's GI today and it's inconclusive to what he actually has... His ulcers are ONLY in the sigmoid part of the colon and no where else, not in the rectum or further up than the sigmoid... which the GI says sort of rules out Crohn's or U/C.... he's thinking that this was brought on by all the antibiotics he was taking for the diverticulitis, had he been given the coctail of Cipro and Flagyl for 14 days right from the start, he would probably gotten over the Diverticulitis and been ok.. but since they kept giving him only Cipro, then finally the combo of the two, it was just too much for his colon to take.

Hopefully, this will be the type of IBD that will only happen once and not be a recurring thing... As for my flare, I'm still flaring.. I ate a salad today and almost puked in my car on the way to the bank this afternoon.. then I almost didn't make it home before running to the bathroom to go poopie.. Oh well, at least I got to eat salads for a few weeks.. lol... Hubby's feeling better and he's to start tapering off the Pred, he goes down to 20mg for a week, then 10mg then stopping alltogether. But he'll stay on the Asacol, 2 pills 3x a day for quite some time, plus we're both taking Cultirelle now.....

And Loneylane.. have you heard from Sherree at all lately??? We need to do another breakfast at Sweat Peas!!!!! LOL

Yup, oddly enough both cats and dogs can get IBD.

:)

pred?? Thought he was only going to be on it for a short stint?

can you spell paranoia? bipolar? Sometimes pdnisone can trigger bipolar disorder if one already suffers from depression etc.

Call the doctor and TELL him that your husband's mental condition doesn't agree with pred. It can do freaky things..seriously.

quincy





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when my husband was on high dose steroids, 80mgs, he brought a sledgehammer into the house and used it.  he was out of control. (that is just one example of craziness while on steroids)  

is your husband on an antidepressant while going through steroid therapy?  ask the doctor about it.  also,  i will never again allow a doctor to put my husband on such a high dose of prednisone.  (i have UC also and have many years of dealing with doctors and drugs) i have learned that you have to arm yourself with knowledge and that the doctors sometimes are grasping at straws. 

it goes away...when my husband was sick, years before i got sick, i didnt understand his pain.  i wasnt as sympathetic as he was with me when i got sick.  my husband just got a flare after an 8 year remission.  i can help him a lot more this time.

Susie -

I am truly sorry to hear about your husband's current behavior and mental state.  I know that when I took pred, it made me a different person as well.  Quick to anger, irritable, surly, withdrawn (moreso than normal), paranoid, and also having a never ending need for food.  I didn't recognize it at the time, but I can now tell I had the 'roid rage'    I believe that it even cost me a job I had been only been working at for 9 months.  Since I am usually pretty laid back and go with the flow, extremely understanding and accomodating, it was a surprise to find out that my co-workers thought of me as hostile. 

Anyway, after a long taper off that evil drug, I began to feel like myself again, so there is hope for your hubbie.  Please contact his doc and let him what is going on.  If what everyone is saying about pred possibly causing a bipolar episode is true, the sooner he is done with it, the better off you will both be.  If he needs some other medication to counteract the roids, try to find something that could be short term until he is "normal" again.  It doesn't sound like home is very comfortable for you right now, and that isn't right.  Get him off the pred, and let him stabilize on the Asacol before things start to spiral out of control, which it sounds like is happening.  Good luck, and I hope this passes over without damaging your relationship horribly.

Brandon