I feel like I'm going crazy?!!

So bear with me here, I haven't slept in 24 hours. So I posted w while back, having flare symptoms but they didn't want to start me on anything as my labs were all normal. Well, when I had my GI appt he checked them again and lo and behold, my lactoferrin was 200s after all so I was handed a 40 mg Prednisone and scheduled for a colonoscopy since it's been 3 years. (Yes I asked about rectal meds and was told it was unnecessary) I've been on that 2 weeks, still taking my immuran and also on wellbutrin. First week was fine. Last week I went to urgent care once because I felt so loopy I thought I must be anemic. My UC is improving....most days anyway...but omg. I only sleep every other night, half the time.e I feel like I'm on a carousel ride too long, and then without sleep I start panicking. I took a pregnancy test because I kept getting dizzy and nausrated. Friday I missed work from no sleep Thursday night and had this whole panic attack over how am I going to get through many more weeks and hold my job, blah blah. Crashed out Friday night and felt wonderful Saturday. Didn't sleep...got out of bed finally at 4 bexause lying there I was awake but dreaming and telling so.ething not to bite me and shivering around and started to panic. So here I am 7am watching a movie and trying to stay calm. Unison just made me feel.more tired.

What in the world???? Ive been on pred before...yeah I had some moodiness and wakefulness but not like this. It usually works well and I taper off of it easily.

I emailed both my GI and and PCP last week...pretty much useless. Told me to try different times (I take it in the morning but I'm), take with food ( check) and one said maybe the wellbutrin is suddenly making me sick so I could skip it every other day.

As if UC itself isn't enough. On my best days I dont function with less than 7 hours lol.

(Yes I asked about rectal meds and was told it was unnecessary)

Get a new doctor. Forum member experience is that rectal meds are among the most effective meds with the fewest side effects.

I've never heard of glycine. I'll definitely look into it.

I seem to have drawn a bad deal with GIs. The first one was creepy then completely vanished one day transferring me to one who was very nice but UC wasn't her expertise. My current one is at a teaching hospital and I'd the only one to ever have me in full remission, but at this point I'm definitely looking at my next option. May be I can just drive up to UVA or something.

Thank you everybody. Feeling a little less irrational now, just tired.

Sometimes prescription sleep meds are necessary during the worst of flares.

Imuran is a very slow working medication. It's 6 weeks for the first dose to kick in. They intentionally start everyone at low Imuran dose and then increase it after you start getting good bloodwork results in. Effectively, it takes 2-3 months until you're seeing optimum results. It'd be good to be on additional medications as well.