Remicade side effects compared to Imuran

Imuran hasn't really done anything for my UC and hasn't given me any noticeable side effects other than a couple: increased fatigue and brain fog, and a tendency to get occasional bursitis of the elbow (happened twice) easily from an elbow bang or pressure on a hard surface,  I'm running out of ammo (have got some partial results from TSO= pig whipworms, and also tried hookworm therapy but that didn't seem to help) for my UC and seem headed for surgery especially if I stay stuck on pred.  However I am going to give Remicade a shot soon, I think.  Anyway, I was wondering- quite apart from the spooky and unknown cancer risks etc- if the remicade results in much fatigue or anything?  The depressing part I find about Remicade is that it seems you have to stay on it forever or until you either decide to get surgery or it stops working, because stopping and starting it can make you allergic.  On the plus side, it would buy me some time to make a more informed surgery decision, assuming it worked; and if I quit it eventually for fear of the toxicity down the road, I could prepare to try some other things. (Even thinking of giving fecal bacteriotherapy a shot).

My first treatment I got thrush and stiffness/achiness in my legs. Second treatment got the same and the stiffness/achiness was much worse second time around. Also got a rash called petechaie? on my stomache and a rash on my cheeks, down shoulders and a mouth ulcer along with the thrush. I'm a little scared to get the next treatment next week, wonderring what will happen next. I'm also scared not to get it as I had tremendous results with D and bleeding immediately. Went from about 30 bm of pretty much just bloody water a day to 10 in one day and in a week was down to like 5 and a month to 1-2 completely normal bm w/no blood or D. It worked amazingly well but not sure what's coming next as far as reactions. Some people have no problems and have been on it for years, everyone varies.

Miss

Thanks, everybody-- yeah it can be a tough call upping the ante on a med. I wish the data for Remicade was a little longer term. Part of me wants to just go straight to colectemy but part of me also knows even that risks ending up on some heavy hitter drugs (in the event of chronic pouchitis or UC turning out later to be crohns) so part of me asks why not try and buy a few more years with a colon. But noone seems to have used these drugs safely for years and years and years... so that has me spooked. I'll probably give it a shot, and if it works, run with it for a few years max if I am so lucky.