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Posted 8/4/2010 4:13 PM (GMT 0)
I'm to take 4 asacols three times a day. My doc said I need to keep constant levels going. What are the time I should be taking them. Is it ok before bed on a empty stomach with out have gastro distress?

Oh can I take asacol before bed and at the same time do a rowasa enema, I feel its a lot a meds all at one time. Let me know you thoughts.

Thanks,

Linda

Posted 8/4/2010 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
When I was in the hospital years ago, they gave me the 5-ASAs every 8 hours - like, 6 am, 2 pm, bedtime. I tried to follow that for years at home, and try to follow that for my kid (though, with a teen in summer, it's on a much, much later schedule....)

Now I take them 4 times a day, so I do breakfast, lunch, dinner, bedtime.

In either case, I've always done some at bedtime and then done the enema. I figure it's a good amount of time before the oral pills meet with with the Rowasa from the other end... :-)

I've never had gastro distress from taking asacol on an empty stomach but have sometimes had a small snack with them "just in case."

I hope this is just the ticket for you - both ends, hooray!
Posted 8/4/2010 4:53 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you, I was bummed to hear I need to take 12, when before I only took 6 for my mild condition. That doc said after 6 weeks I could quit, cold turkey and that was a mistake!
Posted 8/4/2010 5:23 PM (GMT 0)
Isn't it scary that so many are misled by docs? How do we find one we trust? (I sorta feel that way about car mechanics, too - another field I just don't know enough about.)

I understand the being bummed - we hear we need to take meds, more meds, etc, and it just tells us again that we're not perfect, we're not immortal, and so on. It's a tough thing to get one's head around (even over and over again...)
But, from where I sit, 12 per day looks pretty good, if that's of any comfort!
Posted 8/4/2010 5:37 PM (GMT 0)
Oh wow I see your on 16 a day. You will get better and taper I would think as well. Gosh I wish I was at the 6 a day.

Really though how do doctors know how much to prescribe? Based on the inflammation, how much you have and where it is? She said my whole colon was inflammed and that on the left side I had ulcers.

Well I do know 6 weeks of rowasa and 6 pills a day all my ulcers were gone. I was still pooping my pants everwhere, urgency, no blood, so I wasn't in remission but the blood had stopped which was comforting. I was on Perfect Fiber too, my doctor was so amazed when he looked with a flex scope (this was five years ago)  that all the ulcers were gone, he said "what did you do" and I told him about the fiber. My new GI said it was the medication and even though he look with a flex scope inflammation may have been below the surface of my colon walls. I know I can get back to that healed place once again if I do what I'm told.

It's only my first real full day on asacol, I'm still have bloody D. I know it may take a couple weeks right to start working? It's been over five years since that first time I took all meds like I was prescribed.

 

Posted 8/4/2010 5:44 PM (GMT 0)
When I was on Asacol my GI told me to take them that best fits into my schedule. So when I was on 12, I took 4 in the morning around 8am, 2pm and then before bed. And yes it will take a while for them to work. More the inflammation/ulcers = the longer the heal time.
Posted 8/4/2010 6:08 PM (GMT 0)
I take 12 Salofalk per day..same as Asacol

I take 3 , 4 times a day at 7ish, 12ish, 6, ish and 11ish with my probiotics AND an enema at bedtime tooo..I have been doing this for a few months..I am going to try and taper down to 9 per day...

Posted 8/6/2010 1:28 AM (GMT 0)
I took mine three times a day when I was in high school; when I woke up, durng my last class, and in the evening sometime. I'd take the first dose at the time you normally wake up (if you sleep in, wake up and take it and fall back asleep), then divide out the times from there. I was really insane about taking them at the correct times.
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