Flare ups, joint pain and fatigue

Hi fellow UC buddies I am newly diagnosed 54 yo and new to the forum. I have a lot of questions. After being told I had IBS for many years, I found out I have IBD.  So now I am on Colasal 4x2 for a month now. They told me it would tak a few weeks for the meds to get into my system. While my side no longer aches, I have had some episodes of having to go to the bathroom many times a day.  I first get very tired, joint pain and then the stomach thing starts. Is this pretty typical for others? How many people have these other symptoms. Are the meds supposed to help? I thought UC and crohn's got diagnosed in younger people. I am waiting for the follow up apt with my Dr.  I think part of my problem may be that I start to feel well and then I eat something that upsets my stomach like a milk product, too much roughage in the form of lettuce et.....My other meds are fish oil, zocor, cymbalta, synthroid and nexium as needed.

Joint pain is pretty common in people with UC... I have it real bad in my ankles, knees and wrists...

Fatigue is also really common especially because our colon's are so inflamed and if you're bleeding a lot and going diahrea a lot... and in a lot of pain... well it takes a lot out of you.

A lot of us either can't handle too much dairy products... or can't handle them at all. I drink lactaid milk and only eat i cant believe its not butter... i tend to stay away from cheese period.

Raw veggies and things like that are hard to digest. Although I just ate arugula with olive oil, lemon juice and salt n pepper.... i can tolerate that for some reason.

Some people experience a lot of pain with their UC, some do sometimes, and then some don't at all. I'm one of the unlucky few that has pain most of the time.

How do they do a fecal tranplant? That sounds kind of unsanitary.... but if it works.