HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

any tips?

Support Forums
>
Ulcerative Colitis
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 8/24/2010 12:43 PM (GMT 0)
Ok so I think its small flare time

last week urgency with BM then this week not as much but AM and PM watery diarreah, soft stool, small amount red blood and gas.

Im currently on 800mg asacol 4 tablets a day and for about 2 weeks taking a probiotic 1 billion.

I have asacol enimas so should I do a week or two of these in conjunction to calm it down?

should I up my oral asacol by 1 a day too for a while?

My doc gave me the prescription for a year for the enimas and to use them as needed.

thanks

 

Posted 8/24/2010 12:52 PM (GMT 0)
I would start the enemas asap if I were you! I was heading into a flare some weeks ago and hit the enemas - that really helped - to treat it aggressively before it got too bad!
I also doubled my probiotics.
I don't really know, but I think you're at the max for the Asacol 800....(I say that because my GI told me if he put me on the 800, even though I'm on 16 a day of the 400, he'd put me on 4 a day of the 800.) So - try the enemas! I even did them twice a day for a bit.
Keep us posted.
Posted 8/24/2010 3:16 PM (GMT 0)
You're beginning to recognize the stirrings of a flare and that is good! But yes, definately start on the enemas. Better be proactive then face a worse flare later on.
Posted 8/24/2010 4:12 PM (GMT 0)
ok Ill be assuming the position for the next wee while lol

thanks.
Posted 8/24/2010 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
Is your UC throughout your colon?

You should really have been on maintenance enemas...but start them now. One week won't be enough nightly...do at least 2 or 3. Then start to taper if all is OK.

If you don't improve somewhat after a week or so, then consider to up the Asacol...

Are you on any probiotics?

Are you on any fibre supplements?

Maybe consider to make a signature so we don't have to ask so many questions...lol.

q

Posted 8/24/2010 7:57 PM (GMT 0)
How do I add a signature?
Posted 8/24/2010 8:27 PM (GMT 0)
I think my signature is added
Posted 8/24/2010 8:33 PM (GMT 0)
Ok so After my last doctors visit he said to stop the enimas and continue on the Asacol.

Im currently in the process of moving house so my stress levels have increased in the last 2 weeks.
I also felt a bit depressed over the same period but that feelings gone now.
Last week I had lots of urgency but thats now gone too.
Now the last couple of days have been first thing in the morning watery diarreah, gas, red blood small amounts then the same in the PM.

Rest of the day is fine nothing abnormal.
So I thinking my area is inflammed and when passing a stool it causes the blood.

So I will do a 3 week course of enimas as recommended then do a 2 a week maintenance?

I think ive naile down the cycle to the above as this was all similiar to the last time I felt like this.
Im hoping once we move things will settle down.
Posted 8/24/2010 9:07 PM (GMT 0)

Songlady said...
don't really know, but I think you're at the max for the Asacol 800....(I say that because my GI told me if he put me on the 800, even though I'm on 16 a day of the 400, he'd put me on 4 a day of the 800.)

I was on six 800mg Asacol HD tablets for three months during my initial flare...
Posted 8/24/2010 9:39 PM (GMT 0)
weird your doc discontinued the enemas. Which ones exactly?

Do them for 2 - 3 weeks. see how you are. Then you go to every second night...etc. it's a process. not treat and stop.

q
Posted 8/24/2010 9:43 PM (GMT 0)
Salofalk enimas.

Ill be doing the next 3 weeks for sure.

Thanks
Posted 8/24/2010 9:47 PM (GMT 0)
you're welcome.

I would also suggest a better probiotic.
q
Posted 8/24/2010 11:36 PM (GMT 0)
Suggest away....

what would you recommend for probiotics?
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply