really need some advice

Have you discussed with your GI changing biologicals? You may have developed anitbodies to remicade. Your GI can check for that. Also, I noticed that it seems you are not taking rectals and on pentasa. Pentasa treats more of the ascending colon (right side). I'm not sure where your UC involvement extends to, but you may want to try a different 5ASA that is geared toward the left side if that is where your disease is most active. Also, going on rectals can help with rectal and left sided involvement. Have you tried prednisone to at least try to calm down the flare while deciding on another plan of action? You may need to give that a go until you and your GI get you switched to another biologic.

I have not been on any rectals. I also have not been given any prednisone yet. They just gave me flagyl and cipro (day 5/7) which haven't helped. Diarrhea seems to be getting worse to be honest. As far as my class workload goes I have it pretty easy this semester, when I was feeling good last semester I took 18 hours so this semester I only have needed 12 for my degree. My teachers have been very accomadating, I had to miss class all last week. I appreciate the feedback, I do have an appointment this Wednesday at a major hospital in my area, so we'll see what comes of that. Again, thank you.

with the fever, the c-diff test is important to get

Hey garette, sorry to hear about your situation and hope you are on the road to improvement. I actually have a really similar timeline! I (luckily) had my first/major flare shortly after graduation but was really sick all summer until beginning Remicade, also in August 2013. Wish I had began Remicade sooner actually, I needed it! This year I had no issues with Remicade also up until very recently; I just got out of the hospital from re-flaring and am trying to figure out how to move forward too. I am on mesalamines and Remicade, but not Imuran yet. When in the hospital they put me on Uceris, which is like prednisone, but is targeted towards the gut and thus has less side effects. However, prednisone I think is a little stronger. Like has been mentioned, your doctors may see if prednisone/Uceris can help make your symptoms feel better while you try new treatments and get stronger. They aren't a long-term solution but like was previously said may help you feel a little bit better. The Uceris I think is helping me feel a bit better during this time. Although I know steroids don't always work in everyone.

You mentioned that you have a high fever; I'm assuming you've seen your doctor at the major hospital and are possibly admitted by now due to the fever and being on Remicade/Imuran (please keep us posted). If so, I know it sucks to have to spend time in the hospital, and I really feel for you having just gotten out myself, but I always reminded myself that it's probably the best place to be when you're not feeling so well. They can give you good meds for your pain, make sure you're hydrated, check you for infections, and the doctors see you every day so that you can figure out a solution faster. If Remicade isn't doing its job, they can figure out if you have developed antibodies (done by the Prometheus test) or if you need an earlier "booster" infusion. If it's determined that Remicade just stopped working, and you seem to be worse off, then the doctors will probably suggest some of the other "biologics" mentioned above. There are anti-TNFs, which work the same way as Remicade (Humira, Simponi, Cimzia) and there's the new one Entyvio, which works with a different mechanism.

The best advice was given in the previous posts about taking this time for yourself and your health. You sound like a hard worker and it will pay off when the time is due; right now you def deserve to take a breath! A really great nurse I had who also had UC actually had to take time off too in college to fix her UC and then get back to it - but she finished and seemed to be doing great! Wishing you a swift recovery.

Glad to hear that you are getting some hospital attention garrette, I am a 22yr male who was dx'd a year ago with UC. Initially hospitlized for 4 days, left hospital while talking pred, Lialda and more supplements than I care to recall. I have found that supplements and diet mod's and probably most importantly stress control help a great deal. I was able to stay in submission with just diet for 9 months but after a stressful 2 months and slacking on my diet it returned with a vengence, back under control after another 4 day hospital stay. I highly encourage you once out of the hospital to really look at changing your diet, I eat no gluten,meat (unless good quality and then very rare),diary,sugar,caffeine,alcohol,drugs,smoking.

Not saying that diet alone can cure this as I am still dealing with it but it sure does help, biggest thing is to keep a positive attitude and have faith God can help you thru this, it is a very hard disease to cope with but you are stronger than this disease, be smart, eat healthy, find some maintenance meds that work, and keep a good mindset, in Proverbs it says "A merry heart does good like a medicine"

May God bless you and keep you!

Its a very long learning process it seems from all the people here and my short term exposure, things that I can eat during a flare is home made chicken soup,NOT PROCESSED and make sure its good quality meat (no starch i.e. potatoes/rice {these are complex carbs and can be hard on a weakened colon}) and home made banana pudding (we use cashew milk {blend 3/4 cup of cashews with water}, bananas {both in batter and sliced up in the pudding} oat flour and vanilla flavoring) both are really good and really soothing.. I recommend keeping a simple diet until you have manageable symptoms for at least a week (no blood and able to make it to bathroom) and start a food log, then start introducing soft foods, one every 3 days max, to see if you can tolerate, usually my first one to add to my diet is avocado, super nutritious and easy on the stomach.. your gonna do great! P.S. stay away from gassy foods (beans, brocolli, cabbage unless they don't affect you)