Posted 4/15/2014 3:16 AM (GMT 0)
It all started when I developed a gall bladder infection after being on Humira. I wore a drain for my gall bladder and liver bile for 4 months, until they were able to remove my gall bladder. After that, I developed a skin rash that was attributed to heavy liver bile that my body was not accepting....with cream, that cleared up, but I developed a UTI and staph infection, resulting in another rash in Februrary that has not cleared up yet...In treating the UTI and staph...guess what they gave me.....antibiotics! And, we all know what that did; I started the Big D in mid-March and I've been on cholorstyramine (3 pkts) a day and this week my dr. put me back on prednisone. Since January I've been trying to clear up rashes and now Big D!
I had to ask my dr. for prednisone to quell the Diarrehea, started that on 4/11 and it hasn't had any impact yet. I'm taking 40mg in the a.m. Dr. wants me to try it for a week and I've given him a stool sample. Until I'm done with the pred, my derm dr. has said to stop all creams on the skin abrasions and see if the pred helps that as well.
So, now I'm wearing both a pull up depends and underwear with tabs.
Also am on VSL#3DS--1 pkt/day; 4 Lialda; 1 Bentyl before meals and at bedtime, plus D3, fish oil, iron tabs, B12 and a heart med.
This has been a rough time, and I'm starting to worry that they're going to start pushing a cholostomy, they did that about 2 yrs ago when I was in the hosp. for 6 weeks.
I need prayers and kind thoughts, please.