Posted 5/16/2011 2:59 PM (GMT 0)
So I have been on Humira for two months and I am not sure its working. I had a flare in January and was put on Entocort for remission(also on Apriso for maintenance), which helped enormously, but I was still at around 80% remission I'd say. Went on Humira to I guess continue the remission and had been feeling about the same--mostly okay, but no real normal formed bowl movements, just some urgent diarrhea every couple of days to I'm guessing clean me out a bit and not a lot of energy(but I am really amenic and got iron infusions for that recently). In the last couple of weeks, I have been having at least two mornings a week where I have several painful bouts of urgent diarrhea with blood and mucus and I am just exhausted the rest of the day. This past weekend, this happened both days, not really in the morning. In full disclosure, it does seem like coffee aggravates these attacks, but then there are times when i have coffee(not in the morning) when I am fine. I am of course not going to drink coffee for awhile, but I doubt this is going to change my world. Overall, I have to wonder, is Humira even helping me at all?