Simple Poll

Just interested in the results.

Poll is a bit skewed but it seems OP is just trying to gauge how many ppl feel their UC is caused by antibiotics rather than caring about all other possible causes.

Either way, i believe mine was originally caused by antibiotics.

Definitely not antibiotics. But what other cause? I have no clue other than it runs in my family.

I had a few triggers myself but picked antibiotics because that seems to be my main trigger. Tho I also had food poisoning and a genetic link.

I had a really bad stomach infection (from sushi I think, because my wife and I got really sick at the same exact time), a few months later I got UC. So I feel like that was a trigger, because that food poisoning was the worst I've ever had I think. Don't recall getting abx for it I think it just went away after a few days.

Of course, I've had UC like symptoms for a long time (frequent diarrhea that sometimes lasted a week or more sometimes) but never bothered to check it out because it was so mild and never really bothered me. So who knows.

I crash dieted for a year and a half thanks to my eating disorder, which I didn't know was the problem at the time. I was 5 months into recovery when I got a severe gut infection that was originally thought to be UC. Since that infection, I've been on a fair amount of antibiotics. In February when I got cellulitis on my foot, four days of IV antibiotics didn't do anything and when I got home to take the oral antibiotics, that's when blood started to appear in my stool.

My own opinion, if the mucus barrier plays a huge factor in the pathogenesis of UC, is that a very weak barrier from starvation, a gut infection, and multiple courses of antibiotics all led to UC.

I've also played around with the idea that the cellulitis infection may have triggered the autoimmune reaction itself, but I started bleeding while I still had the infection, and I think most autoimmune reactions from infections occur after the original infection is gone. That's what happened when I experienced severe reactive arthritis after my gut infection last May. The infection was gone for 2-3 weeks when it happened.

Maxmilian is right. I know there are many different causes or triggers that patients feel led to their UC but antibiotics always seem to be well in the mix for many. I was just curious how the poll would come out to see if antibiotics all by itself could beat out all of the other possibilities added together. To me, that would mean something. I also voted for antibiotics.

Not to be critical, but I feel like genetics and stress should have had their own categories. I've heard some people account their UC to probiotics, but on the whole, I hear more people point to stress, and doctors I've spoken to point to genes. Not saying there's anything bad about this poll, but it would have been interesting to have those on as well to compare with probiotics.

Gary, you need to broaden the options or make another poll or nix this one altogether since this one seems geared toward antibiotic use.
Why bother having a poll then.

I put something else.

btw...I believe antibiotic use can cause c.diff or other colitis caused by antibiotic, which, in those susceptible to UC, triggers it into action.
It continues when the "infection" is gone...

q

Well, I took abx right before my diagnosis. I also gave birth right before my diagnosis. I also drove a car, went to work, ate food, breathed air, remodeled my house, talked on the phone.....

malaika.....gary's been around LONG ENOUGH to not even bother with that poll.
You haven't been around long enough to get the point about why it can tick off those who wonder why the waste of a question.

q

quincy said...
malaika.....gary's been around LONG ENOUGH to not even bother with that poll.
You haven't been around long enough to get the point about why it can tick off those who wonder why the waste of a question.

q

yup !

Checked 'something else': years and years and years of stress!