Well, well, well...ladies what do you think

I tapered to 10 mg last week and have been doing fine. I have noticed a little bit of a rash on my face, but that happened the last time I tapered. Otherwise I have been feeling. Great...until today.

After church we went out for lunch. I ate some dish with rice, chicken, and some type of sauce. When I got home, I headed straight for the bathroom. Without a lot of graphics, I wound up throwing up and expelling that stuff out of me. I have felt better since that violent episode, but here is the kicker. about2 hours after the exorcism, I noticed that my period seems to be starting (or at least I am spotting). I haven't had a period in over 7 months!

What's up with all this? Did the food actually make me sck or was it the onset of my period that caused the tummy issue? Is it the prednisone taper or just nature? I am 46 and welcome "the change", but I really wonder if it is going hand in hand with UC.

did anyone else that ate that chicken get sick? That sounds like food poisening.

I am over the change, I am 52, I started early, your age. I can't help you there.

I still get hot and wonder if it is fever or flash! ;-)

I found that when i was on prednisone, my periods stopped for two months ( but I was on a high dose 70mg) and it wasn't until two months later that my periods arrived.

That is weird. I think your period starting is just coincidental. My doc told me that the steroids can mess up your cycle. I am ALWAYS on a 28 day cycle...I have been on cortifoam and cortenemas lately, and I got my period a week early. I am 48....so I, too, am not adverse to menopause starting!

I agree with Sheri that it may be the food not agreeing with you. Your body needed to get it out quickly, hence the vomiting. Look on the bright side, you were doing great before this incidient....now it's over, and you can continue your recovery :)
~Cita

I don't know ... I am in perimenopause and things are happening to my body that have never happened before. Even on birth control pills, my hormones are all over the map and I HAVE had nausea and major migraines which I have never had before. I have upchucked a few times right before a period and it had nothing to do with food because my family ate the same thing. Every woman deals with the peri/menopausal thing differently. My mom had NO symptoms-arggg-while I have gotten all of them and I am only 41 years old! Add UC to the mix and you have a complicated biological mess.