UC & joint pain

i believe you will be taken off asacol since sulfasalazine contains 5-asa and sulfapiridine.

the asacol also has amino5acetilsalicilic acid...

but. if you are doing SCD and you believe it helps your UC i would recomend yo tweak the diet a little further - i can manage both my UC and my joint problems with diet.

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Samad,
I'm working with supplements to manage my joint pain. I have negative xrays and lab work but sometimes severe joint pain.
I recently started Curcumin (turmeric) at 4000mg/day.
I'm also using VSL#3 daily along with Slippery Elm.
My UC is pretty good and for the last few days, my joint pain has gotten a good bit better. I just started a triple strength curcumin from a local Vitamin Shoppe.
Will it last? Is it my "magic Bullet"? Dunno, but willing to try to stay off stronger med's.
All I take at this point is Lialda.
Have you gone gluten free? When I decided to go gluten free was when I was debilitated with joint pain!! I'm much better, but the pain is still bothersome.
Nightshade plant free?
What else do you do to decrease inflammation in your body?

When you say "plenty" I wonder....Curcumin has been studied in the USA and has shown, in high doses between 4000-8000mg a day to help folks with UC by decreasing intestinal inflammation. I'm just guessing here that anything that will decrease inflammation in my body is a good place to start; especially if it has no side effects that I have researched or recognized myself.

VSL#3 is a high powered probiotic with 450 BILLION strains of probiotics to help recolonize the gut. My GI thinks it's a good idea for me to take it daily. I'm on one packet a day. It's a powder that comes in small packets.

Slippery Elm is a bark, I believe, which coats the inner lining of the gut. I take it in a capsule but many on this site take the powder. Google them all for more detail.

I get the SCD diet, but its a bit too extreme for me on most days. I use a small bit of sugar, basically no dairy, and a few carbs. My diet has gotten very narrow and pretty "clean" compared to most...which in this country isn't saying much as we eat so much CRAP here.
BUT are you GLUTEN FREE? Gluten, for many folks with IBD, causes an inflammatory response in our bodies. I went GF almost a year ago and after my initial 5 weeks of figuring out what I could/couldn't eat anymore, I had much less joint pain!! No joke here.

Not that what I say works for me will work for you, but instead of starting drugs, why not try some simple diet changes and begin a few herbs/supplements that just MIGHT work???
Your choice, of course.
Good luck and keep searching on this site and asking questions!!

I take sulfazine and 5-ASA meds for my IBD - I added the sulfazine a few years ago for joint pain and my DR did not take me off my Pentasa. I think you will do fine. However, joint pain associated with IBD is usually linked to an increase in bowel symptoms - how are you doing? Is it possible that you need to add rectal meds to your day to control a UC flare up? The oral meds you're using will not cover inflammation in the rectum.

I occasionally take Omega-3 oil, 1 tablespoon. I take Asacol 2 800mg twice a day. It's the delayed release so it releases when in the colon.

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@mary A.

fish oil has different effects on UC'ers. I for one, cannot take it without irritating my gut. And i've tried several brands. But it's worth a try, off course, because some do well on it.