UC feels like my body is taking me hostage

This is my first post, but have been searching for some answers and this is such a helpful peer forum, so though I would give it a try.

I started having symptoms a month ago, just a little tiny bit of bleeding and mucous. I guess I had started with the bloating and pressure a couple weeks before that, but thought maybe I just needed to be more regimented on my sulfasalazine dosage (2 twice daily) and be more strict with eating healthy.

When it became clear that my symptoms were not improving I called my doctor and she recommended I start taking 6 sulfasalazine per day. After a couple weeks the bleeding was becoming still more significant, and she started me on cort enemas to be retained overnight, because this is what put me in remission when I had mu first flare ( which was severe) I don't do well at all on prednizone, it affect all aspects of my life very badly, and it took me a year to heal completely from the regiment I had with them last time.

After a week of the cort enemas I am still bleeding ( I have an alight improvement ever other day, with the in-between leaving me defeated)

How long should it take the cort enemas in conjunction with the sulfasalazine to improved my bleeding?

UC sometimes feels like my body is taking me hostage...its so hard to stay positive, even though I know a positive attitude is part of the healing process.

Any advice or suggestions on what to try?

My last flare-up I did canasa suppositories ( which broke the bank) and they didn't work.

Hi,

I know the feeling i have felt like UC has impeded my life since diagnoses and i have only been in remission 2 months since diagnoses as i hust continually flare.

The only thing that gets me out of a flare is Pred however i am at my whits end with it as it ruins my urinary tract completely, feeling burning and all the rest in that area every time im on it ! I have no other symptoms just that and it sometimes is worse than UC and drives me nuts. I too have achieved short term remission with (Colifoam) steroid foam enema however this did not help the nxt time i started to flare and i am now i at the tail end pf a flare tapering off pred.

Your dosage of sulfersalazine is quite low ? Can you increae it to 8 tabs ?

Maybe look at 5 asa ? (Asacol,Pentasa,Salofalk)

5-ASA medications are available as pills, enemas, and suppositories. Each medication has a slightly different formulation that allows it to reach different areas of the bowel

Might be a case of combining sulf wit rectal med like pentasa ?