Posted 8/1/2011 11:16 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone, I just joined HW today and wanted to introduce myself. I was diagnosed with UC about 8 years ago and have experimented with a lot of the medications used to treat UC. At first I was put on anti-inflammatories and stints of Prednisone for bad flare-ups. I was finally put on Colazal and Imuran and it put me into remission for about three years. Then about a year ago my flare-ups started occuring again. This led me to try other medicines such as Remicade and Humira. None of these worked. I finally made the decision to have surgery in which my colon was removed and was given a temporary ileostomy. I had the surgery 5 weeks ago today. I am going to have the reversal procedure done in late Spetember. If anyone has any questions please let me know; I will try to help any way I can.