Symptoms back...yay :/

Well, after tapering down just from 40mg Prednisone to 35mg after a few days my symptoms have returned again. Bloody D, pain while going, extreme urgency.....Now im not positive if it is just the 5 mg taper or if its been nearing the 6 weeks since my last remicade infusion (only have had two so far) but all I know is I don't like this. Also I just went up to 150mg imuran last night with no ill effects, as of yet. I hope I continue to have no issues with my imuran because I really want it to work, duh :) Anyway just felt like sharing my little storey, feel free to respond if you can shed any light, take care all.

I've been on prednisone for a month and my symptoms haven't improved, especially the bleeding... I'm having a particularly bad day today so I just wanted to share my pain with you all. Tomorrow I have a routine checkup with my GI, hopefully he'll be willing to try something new; I'm sick of these symptoms...

Hey Cavalier9:
I hear ya. I started on 30 mg of pred, tapered down to 25 after a week and the little improvement I saw went right out the window. My doc put me back up to 30 for 3 weeks, and then wants me to taper to 27mg for 3 weeks, then 25 and so on. I'm back to seeing the improvements. Now I'm a little freaked out about tapering, but since it'll be so slight, hopefully (prayerfully) I'll continue seeing the results. I'd suggest you give your doc a call about it.

MoJenk: surgery?? as in removing part of your colon and living with a pouch??? I'd rather try every single med combination, 10 times, than go for surgery. All the ideas for diet, vitamin, supplement and med combinations on this forum have been a real revelation to me. There is so much to try and do before resorting to surgery...