UC flare up. Remicade? Short term relief?

Hello-

New to the forum here. Figured I am about fed up trying to talk to my friends about my UC because they don't fully understand how it feels, like people who have experienced it themselves know.

I have been officially diagnosed with UC for less than a year. I'm currently undergoing my second flare up and my current meds are not working. I am experiencing severe abdominal pain, liquid like diarrhea, urges, some blood in stool, bloating, weakness, dizziness, nausea, feeling like I am going to faint, you name it. None of my food wants to stay in my body anymore and I have cramping almost all the time, with sharp pains in my lower left abdomen. Most of symptoms that I had in my last flare up are back!

I met with my doctor last week and he says I have two options, Remicade or 6mp. I have decided to start taking Remicade, as I am not ready to add more pills to the already 25 pills I take for my UC meds and other medications I am on.
Does anyone have a preference on the two treatments or have any advice for a Remicade newbie?

Also, until I receive treatment, (which is going to be soon as I recently called my doctor's office and they know all my recent symptoms) is there any tips for over the counter meds that can help to ease my pain and discomfort until I start receiving treatment within the next few weeks? Or any tips not involving medicine that have helped you?

Much Thanks for anyone who replies!

What is your diet like? If you don't mind, it might be helpful to know all of the meds you are on, including those not having anything to do with UC. Did the pred help at all? It seems like you should be doing much better than you are. Do you drink any alcohol?

Thank you for all of your responses. I found them all helpful!

Garylouisville, I'm not going to lie, as a college student my diet isn't the best in the world.
I do make sure to eat three meals a day with snacks in between. I LOVE food. I have some form of fruit every day, something fresh, along with fresh vegetables and I eat a lot of chicken. I also enjoy a lot of dairy foods.

I haven't found any foods that particularly "trigger" my UC. Although I have found that breads do seem to stay in my system a bit longer, but still cause abdominal pain and bloating, everything I eat does. The only thing different from my current state and the state I was in before I was diagnosed, is I am bleeding less than I was when I was really sick and almost had to be hospitalized.

Other medications I am taking besides listed already are Singular for Asthma, Amitriptyline (4 pills a day at 10mg each) for Migranes, Migrogestin Fe (Birth Control), Iron supplements, Vitamin B supplements, and daily vitamins for women. Also occasional vitamin C and Echinacea tablets.

For my pains I used to take Advil, but now I have to take Aleve which unfortunately doesn't work as well as Advil. Tylenol does absolutely nothing for me. I used to take imodium when I didn't know what was going on last year. Would that help for the time being, or would that be dangerous to not get everything out of my system the way it wants to be.

Waiting for a call from my doctor's office today, hopefully I can see him this week.

Advil, aspirins, Aleve, and all NSAIDS are not good things to take with UC. It doesn't leave much left you can take.