Active UC in sigmoid/rectal area--how to get it under remission

Hello Everyone,
I just had my colonoscopy after about a year of bleeding and some other type of symptoms (intermittent urgency, mucus, and anywhere from 3-6 bm per day). The preliminary results showed the UC is active in the rectal and a bit in the sigmoid region. I am on Asacol 800mg HD 2pills three times per day (so 4800mg/day) and occassionaly do the rectal Rowasa. Please share with me other ways or what has worked for you to finally get the rectal region in remission. Thanks so much for your responses.

These are the other things I do:
1.) psyllium husk powder
2.) VSL#3
3.) Tumeric 1000mg once per day
4.) Fish Oil, 2 caps per day
5.) B complex
6.) D3 1000units per day
7.) Probiotic Tea

Well, I am a rectal failure. But I think it's key to do enemas daily to gain some type of remission, along with the oral medications.

Sue

Ilede,

So let me share with you what's worked for me in the hopes it might help you too.

Some meds work for some and not for others.
IMO, it isn't one size fits all, and you have to find what works for you, and it may be a combination of things like diet, meds, supplements, etc...

For me, the traditional meds failed me and the mesalamines I became intolerant of.
And when the doc gave me a choice of surgery or remicade, I balked and had to find my own way.

He also told me diet has nothing to do with UC, but I found that it has a great deal to do with exacerbating its symptoms!

I found that by taking certain proactive steps, it put me in full remission.
My steps to remission included: diet modification, various supplements, probiotics, and LDN, low lose naltrexone..

If any of this interests you, there are things IMO that you can control, which will have a direct impact on your disease, the symptoms you experience and their severity.

For more info on the protocol which has put me into remission, please go to this link: https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=1666318 , and look at the 11th post.

I hope you feel better and let us know how we can help you.

FT's ?

relatively safe
usually pain free
and oh so fun

InSoFla-thanks so much for your recommendations. I am going to give them a try, first will try the glutamine. hateuc--I really like your screen name! sorry to hear that you also have that region as well. It seems like it is probably too far for the pills to reach, but I am wondering why enemas and supps are not kicking it in the budd?

yup, FT = fecal transplant

I'm not sure what the overall success rate for uc'ers is, but it really is a pretty benign form of treatment -

to me it was more of a "why not" option - and I had a somewhat willing and able (at the time) donor -
there is quite a lot of info on it here - just use the search function -

I can't say for sure if it helped me, but it absolutely did no harm -

You are taking 1000 IU of vitamin D per day. I bet if you get your blood levels of vitamin D checked then you will need much more to reach optimum levels of 40-60 ng/ml.

Oih... no excited to find out how much Vitamin D ill need to be supplementing :/ I picked up some 1,000 but maybe I won't open them yet! Blood tests back next week should tell me!

Also: curcumin/turmuric; I'd up to 2,000mg... its been suggested to me that 2g min is needed for any result. Though a recent post/discussion stated you could take up to 8g.

I upped my dose to 3 morning... 3 at night... so 6,000mg :) seems to be helping further up my colon.

Having lots of rectal pressure / pain the last couple days :(
*sits on ice pack*