Posted 5/18/2009 2:41 PM (GMT 0)
My doc has put me back on Mesalazine Foam Enemas again for my UC, until I try a new course of cyclosporine enema drugs in a couple of weeks.
I was very reluctant to take the mesalazine again as everytime I've found it really hard to take and this time seems no different. With predfoam I'm fine, and more recently I've been using the colifoam which is messy to get in the dispenser, but again easy enough to hold in once it's adminstered, but I just can't seem to take this mesalazine and keep it in for long.
i find the nozzle so uncomfortable to insert and as soon as I inject it I just can't seem to tolerate the urge to get it out of my system as soon as possible, and even on the rare occasions I've managed to hold it in for ten minutes or so, even then I find myself leggin it to the loo to get rid of it.
The whole sensation of it feels like it is burning, and the sheer volume of it seems just to much for me to take. I'm also really concerned that if I can't keep it in, that it is not actually having much of a positive effect by account of the drug not actually getting into my system properly.
Does anyone else find this the problem with mesalazine? My symptoms have been so bad recently, I really wonder about pursuing the use of a med which I find is making feel worse rather than better, it always seems the same with mesalazine for me.