Stress

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has any stress suggestion methods? I'm currently been flaring up off and on for a couple of weeks now and this past weekend has been the absolute worst. Lately I have been having relationship problems that has been stressing me out for a while. Also I'm starting college soon and won't be seeing many of my friends again so I am a little stress with that. On top of that family has been causing me to stress a bit. I know stress can trigger a flare and I think that is why I am flaring up so much. Any suggestions? Also my hair seems to be coming out more than usually when I brush it, I just started hair and nail vitamins but is there any suggestions about that, is it normal with UC?

Flaring itself will cause hairloss if not treated. Stress can cause all sorts of exacerbation of things, and continual distress would definitely result in what you describe with untreated UC.

You also need to be on rectal meds...I would think that's most of the problem UC-wise.

Your hairloss process would have begun about 6 months ago....interfering with the cycle. Remember that we lose aobut 100 hair daily, but the fact that more hairloss is noticable means that there is hair growth now pushing it out. You should see new sprouts in a few months. Unless you look closely now and are seeing it...that's promising.

Hang tough...

Have you had your thyroid checked as well?

Welcome to the forum,
quincy