First Meal In A Bit, Weird Feeling?

So I came out of the hospital yesterday got a prognosis of Ulcerative Colitis. I haven't eaten a full meal in what seems like 3-4 days. Got prescribed 60mg of Pred. when i came out yesterday from hospital, 60mg daily dosage. So I feel like I've improved a little the past hour from taking my meds earlier today with a banana. Dad came home with some food from diner and i decided to try eating a full meal for the first time in a while. I finished eating but half way through I felt these, weird sensations. Like I was getting these 'hot jabs' around my stomach area, left side mostly and then the right. they weren't really painful at all just like kinda like spasms if anything and weird hot feeling that lasted for a little bit (barely finished eating about 15min ago so I'm still digesting). I'm still trying to figure out what foods irritate me and would this be considered a irritation? or is irritation more like, getting serious or painful cramps along with painful diarrhea or something? Sorry I'm still very new to this guys and I'm looking into a lot of information as much as i can.

I also was diagnosed recently, and basically my approach has been a paleo diet, with kefir ( lactobactilli (sp?)). Find foods that irritate you, you will know pretty soon, and avoid them. Lots of hydration as the diarrhea will leave you dehydrated. I've had success eating mostly organic foods; grass fed chicken and beef. Avocados have a high level of good fats, almond milk that is unsweetened has been ok as well.

Ideally, you will want to "test" out food and give yourself a whole day time to be ready to sit in the bathroom if it a trigger food. So don't eat too much of a food, but don't eat a large variety of foods. You will want to basically approach this from a scientific process approach. Have a control, know what foods don't give you symptoms and eat them regularly to stay alive and healthy. Add small amounts of suspect foods, and if they make you sick, then you know you can't have it.

NO.

You need to treat your illness with medication first. Once you get stabilized you will discover some foods that really bug you, and others that do not. At this point all food is going to bother you so it is impossible for you to differentiate.

The prednisone should help you feel much better very quickly (like within days I would expect your bleeding to be gone). 60 mg/day is a lot of pred. Once you have solid stool you should talk to your DR about reducing the pred dose. You need a maintenance med though, and you should start that med while you are still on a high dose of pred.

Mister Lonely, please take a moment to read the resources post at the top of this forum.

When is your follow-up appointment with your GI? It should be sometime in the next week or so.

Prednisone is a stop-gap measure in treating UC. It is a powerful immunosuppressant that will reduce inflammation quickly (and hopefully get you to remission), but you cannot take it for longer than a few months without risking very serious life-long problems. Most people with UC take daily medication to keep their disease in remission.

The choice of maintenance medication depends on many things. The most widely used is mesalamine, which is available in oral and rectal forms. If you have rectal inflammation (most everybody with UC does) you should use a rectal mesalamine. If your inflammation involves more than the rectum and sigmoid colon, you should also take oral mesalamine. These medications are very safe.

thank you so much for your information and answer, sorry its just so much ground to cover with this disease that i was prognosis-ed yesterday(need colonoscopy asap to get the true 100% diagnosis but they think its UC). Im so slow at this and horribly nervous, scared, anxious and stressed. im in ruins right now. just doing my best to keep my mentality straight and not be so stressed or worked up, just trying best way to get answers asap.