Do you heal with good days/bad days or steady improvement?

When you're recovering from a flare do you find you have a few good days, a bad day and back to good days? Or do you see steady improvement, day by day, with no backwards movement. I thought I was doing great but then today out of no where I'm feeling crappy again

I'm very interested to see what the answers are here and know what to expect. I've been blaming up and down on Lialda, but maybe it has been coincidences.....

Here's to more good days for all...

I still have bad days and I'm in remission but its usually related to eating something that bothered me.

My days are usually:

good bad bad good bad

or

bad bad bad good bad

or

good good bad bad good

or

bad bad bad good bad

but usually

bad bad bad bad bad

....to be continued

Not a straight line upwards but it has been an definite upward trend since figuring out what works for me and no downward regression except with either a new supplement that was rejected or a food that is not tolerated. When I correct/eliminate the upward trend goes back in place.

Before I got my diet mods. sorted out I would have "plateauing" with long periods of no improvement and some downward (years of this in the beginning). It took me being realistic and not in denial to decide that what I was doing was not working enough and continue to seek better solutions. Since I had come to the end of non-biologic meds that meant giving diet mod. one last try. That was the thing that finally worked for me.

Today I felt like I didn't have UC and it's starting to be that way almost every day.
I wish this for everyone in 2014.

Heck I've been in remission for almost 2 years and I still have bad days! lol But for me it was a steady improvement in the beginning.

I agree good days and bad days. Just look for a trend towards more good then you know you are in the right direction.

I usually have a steady recovery. However bad days happen when I eat bad foods.

"but I can always open presents in bed..."

is there another way ?

;-)

Try not to confuse dietary/food symptoms with UC symptoms....because you'll start blaming it all on food and not seeing/understanding your progress.

Let me add that you're way too early in the process of being on meds after diagnosis...please ease up on your expectations and be patient. Healing with 5ASA meds is like the tortoise and the hare lesson.

During the first two years, and while tapering the rectals...I had tons of ups and downs. Eventually I "got it" with the blessing of my GI to try different tapering methods.

Since fruitgirl came on the forum, the twice a week maintenance would have definitely had me in a better state I think. But, life always got in the way with many huge emotional and physical issues to add insult to injury.

25 years later.....I look back on the process as a huge positive one, hence my sharing.

PATIENCE
RECTAL MEDS IN CONJUNCTION WITH ORAL 5asa (or other like options should they not be as successful)
DON'T CONFUSE FOOD SYMPTOMS WITH uc SYMPTOMS

q

Siiiigh, yes, I suppose I am being a little unrealistic in healing time. I was just so confident that things were onwards and upwards and then out of nowhere I got worse again, which was depressing. Today is back to where I was the day before my bad day...so hopefully it was just a little blip. Thanks for the reality check Quincy, my voice of reason.