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Posted 4/26/2014 5:19 PM (GMT 0)
Do you have a special routine/time for taking your meds?...Is it actually important?

What I mean is that I take my vitamin D, and Multi vitamin as soon as I get out of bed in the morning, I then have my breakfast and wait half an hour before taking Pentasa 2g, I then take 1 St Johns wort tab at lunchtime and then early evening, finally before bed I take 2 Renew Life Probotics....is it necessary do you think to space things out a bit, rather than taking everything at once.

Also I am waiting delivery of:-

Grape seed extract...how many would you suggest I take, and could I take these with the vitamins first thing in the morning?

Renew life ultimate flora vaginal formula probotic...how many would you suggest bearing in mind I seem to have a candida problem...and when would be the best time to take this?

Candex (for candida)....I have to take this 1 hour before eating, twice a day, so I plan on taking this before I even get out of bed! and then in the evening before bed, I don't envisage having to take this long term though, its mainly to sort out my immediate problems with re occurring thrush.


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Posted 4/26/2014 11:47 PM (GMT 0)
I would space certain things out but the rest I don't think really matters. I wouldn't be afraid to take the vitamins and Pentasa all together. The Pentasa should dissolve in your colon and I believe the vitamins mostly dissolve in your stomach, I believe. With the probiotics I vote for taking one in the morning and one at night. I started the Grape seed extract (400mg capsules) with one per day. It made my condition erratic, giving me half good days and half worse days. When I increase that to one capsule in the morning and one at night I got much, much, better. I then got cocky and went in for the kill by taking one capsule three times per day and got worse. When I resumed the one capsule in the morning and one at night I returned to much better again.
Posted 4/27/2014 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
I used to take 1 asacol pill three times a day. I know take 1 asacol in the am and 2 before bed. I take my probiotics and 1 asacol as soon as I wake up and then wait at least half an hour before eating (I read its best to take probiotic on empty stomach) I take 2 metamucil with lunch and two with dinner. I then take 2 more asacol and my elavil before bed. For whatever reason I'm having better success with this than when I had the asacol mid day.
Posted 4/27/2014 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks a lot... I didn't realize you had to take probotics on an empty stomach, and I will definitely take the grape seed extract carefully. :-)
Posted 4/27/2014 4:03 PM (GMT 0)
I did a lot of research on when and how to properly take probiotics and came up with a big goose egg of conflicting information. It seems like every expert has their own opinions. Take them on an empty stomach. Take them with food. Take them in the morning. Take them at night. Take them all at once. Take them several times spaced throughout the day. The stomach acid kills them. The stomach acid doesn't kill them. I don't think anyone really knows.
Posted 4/27/2014 5:51 PM (GMT 0)
Gary, Do you happen to know the max dosage you can take for probotics..I certainly don't want to overdue it, and once I receive Ult Flora Vag support, I will then be taking 3 tablets in total a day, is that too much..does anyone know?

Also I've got early menopause...which unfortunately runs in my family, so I need to find something online to help with joint stiffness, its especially bad in my hands....for some reason I just thought my joint stiffness was related to UC, but apparently not, its the menopause...I'm a painter/artist, so this is a problem....so more supplement/pills needed...such a joy!
Posted 4/27/2014 7:08 PM (GMT 0)
In most cases with UC I really don't think you can take too much as in overdosing. Maybe some people reach a level where it levels off and might make you worse. In studies with VSL people were taking doses as high as 3600 billion CFU's per day. Yours probably isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to that.
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