lialda better than asacol

Lialda made me swell like a ballon. Asacol doesn't. I looked like I had been punched in the eyes every morning.

your link is working for me.

Opps I meant to say that the link doesn't work.

Both lialda and asocol make me shed...Just trying to tough it out for now. What used to be 2 wraps of the pony tail holder is now 3. If I hit 4 we have a problem. I do think the lialda went further down the colon and got rid of more inflamation than the asocol does. I am dealing with that with the canasa.

When I take lialda it was if all the fluid that would have been in the D was being retained in my body.

That's funny, I can only take codine, all other pain meds (especially morphine) make me break out in welps...

If you want to read the article, copy and paste the link into your browswer window...it doesn't work if you click on it.

I did read it, and it does not say that Lialda is better than Asacol.

What the researchers did was take a group of people who'd been treated for about 8 weeks with one of the following:

1.  2.4 g/day MMX mesalamine (Lialda)

2.  4.8 g/day Lialda

3.  2.4 g/day delayed release Asacol (is this the new Asacol HD?)

4.  nothing (placebo)

They then selected a group of folks who hadn't achieved remission, and placed all of them on 4.8 g/day of Lialda for another 8 weeks.  At the end, 59.5% had achieved remission.

They didn't compare the different forms of mesalamine in this second part.

The point was to see if additional time on high-dose mesalamine resulted in remission or not, since many patients are placed on steroids or other stronger drugs after not getting into remission after 8 weeks on mesalamine.  I'm sure they would have found the same results by using Asacol for another eight weeks at 4.8g/day. 

hydrotherapy said...
the lialda goes further in the colon that is why it works better and taking 4 pills a day is better than 16 asacol , foam ect i have had it all they did double my dose of remicade to 1000 mg from 5mg what is making hair thinner i was told was my poor health nutrition now on lialda and double remicade hair is coming back in since april about 5 inches it was wierd on fell off the back

You had 5 inches of hair grow on your back??