just started colazal

hey guys, just started taking colazal and I have to say the neverending constant pain has decreased a lot.. I no longer have to go 4 times in the morning

I was worried about the side effects however

according to dailymed's post marketing experience: there's myocarditis, pericarditis, vasculitis, pruritus, pleural effusion, pneumonia (with and without eosinophilia), alveolitis, renal failure, interstitial nephritis, pancreatitis, and alopecia.

in comparison to Lialda:

Body as a Whole: lupus-like syndrome, drug fever
Cardiac Disorders: pericarditis, pericardial effusion, myocarditis
Gastrointestinal: pancreatitis, cholecystitis, gastritis, gastroenteritis, gastrointestinal bleeding, perforated peptic ulcer
Hepatic: jaundice, cholestatic jaundice, hepatitis, liver necrosis, liver failure, Kawasaki-like syndrome including changes in liver enzymes
Hematologic: agranulocytosis, aplastic anemia
Immune System Disorders: anaphylactic reaction, Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS), drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)
Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Disorders: myalgia
Neurological/Psychiatric: peripheral neuropathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, transverse myelitis
Renal Disorders: interstitial nephritis
Respiratory, Thoracic and Mediastinal Disorders: hypersensitivity pneumonitis (including interstitial pneumonitis, allergic alveolitis, eosinophilic pneumonitis)
Skin: psoriasis, pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum
Urogenital: reversible oligospermia

well I just learned something from looking up the post marketing experiences of Lialda in comparison to colazal, its safer

There's nothing about Apriso, which I used to take for almost 2 years everyday and it never seemed to help when I flared.

anyone else taking colazal? I know you are Old Mike, that's how I found out about it

thanks

I was on Colazal for about 8 years. At first it helped control my flares but then my daughter gave me a stomach bug that I never recovered from. So I had to take additional meds.

I went from Asacol to Colazal btw.

Colazal never really stopped my flares but it made things tolerable. I recently switched to Apriso because I was having a bad reaction to the Colazal (increased D, abdominal pain and bloating). However I was on Remicade before I made the switch to Apriso. Btw, Apriso is a med to help MAINTAIN remission, not induce it. So it doesn't surprise me that it didn't keep you out of flares.

Colazal is a good med and it's helped a great deal of people. But the side effects that you read about are extremely rare. I never had all those things and like I said, I was on it for about 8 years. And trust me, if a med says that it may cause this or that...I'm almost guaranteed to have it! Lol But Colazal didn't. They just have to list those things as a precaution. As my GI put it once, if ONE person out of millions get a side effect, they have to put it in their statements/precautions.