Hi Straydog and LanieG Thank you so much for spending your time in reading and responding to my thread. I will make sure i keep you guys updated with my moms situation. Straydog, im really glad you...
Hi LanieG Thanks for spending your precious time in reading my post. I really hope some others with stents could come out and share their experience. Its really worrying not knowing the exact risks...
Hi thanks so much for replying and helping me out. Actually im living in Hong Kong and my mother is getting treated here. The doctors/nurses here are all chinese and sometimes they dnt spend much...
Hi everyone My mom is 62, has been diabetic for almost 20 years and recently got diagnosed with her main heart artery 65% blocked. Her doctor has suggested her to have angioplasty and get the stent...
Hi everyone My mom is 62,diabetic for almost 20 years with high bp and recently got diagnosed with 65% heart artery blockage. Her cardiologist is suggesting she gets angioplasty done and also get...
Hi Thx alot for your feedbacks and info. My husband is also on Pentasa 4pills morning and 4 pills evening every day. And he has been on the lowest dose of steroids for couple of years already....
Hi everyone, My husband has had UC for several years already and he's been on steroids for a couple of years. I conceived a baby who's now 4 yrs old when he wasnt on steroids and we've been now...
Hi everyone, I'm back after quite a long time. As some of you might have read my previous posts regarding my husband's ulcerative colitis, I'm here again with some questions. He's been on...
Hi My mom has had diabetes for about 17 years and she's now 58. Her blood sugar and cholesterol levels were a little higher than normal so she was recently prescribed SIMVASTATIN for lowering her...
Hi Extremely sorry to hear about your surgery. I wish you best of health for the coming years. Dont worry about losing your vision, I pray that it won't come to that. Enjoy the moments you have. My...
Hi Barry Thx for your time spent on reading my post. However, its not me who is diagnosed with hep b. Its my friend and that's why I'm not being able to tell you the complete details about his test...
Hi, Thx everyone for your feedbacks. The viral load 3,652,243,113 IU/ml...does it mean his virus is so severe that he has a risk of liver damage? I don't know how i'm supposed to tell him about the...
Hello Mae Be Here, Thank you for your kind reply and help. I really appreciate it. My friend has got his blood tests done and a number of other tests. I am confused about his viral load as its...
Hi, My friend is suffering from Hepatitis B and is in bad state. He got treatment and after some time he got checked up again but the reports showed that the virus has increased more. Can anyone tell...
He is also taking mesalazamine(wrong spelling?) x3 daily with 5mg pred.His doc has tappered it down from 40mg long ago and completely stopped pred bt he started having a flare up and bleeding again...
Thanks to all for reading my post.We are going to consult his doctor first thing tomorrow.I know only doctors can find out the cause of it but before going there I decided to share it here just in...
My husband-who's a patient of Ulcerative colitis for 6 yrs now, and has been on prednisolone for almost over an year now, is currently having terrible abdominal cramps which are going on and off for...
Hi, Thank you all for your replies and for reading my post. Well, my husband is currently taking Melasazine and Prednisolone 5mg each day. He's been on pred.for many months now and in..I guess Sept...
Hi, My husband - a patient of Ulcerative Colitis, is now having another new problem. I hope someone here can guide us what this new thing is about. It's been almost 3 months that he has been having...
Hi Niro, Thanks for ur reply...i'm not so sure if the doctor really meant lipoma and not lymphoma....but if it was those horrible lymphomas,then the doc himself would have been worried about my...
Hi, Maybe some of you have read my other posts regarding my husband's state of ulcerative colitis. He was started on 50mg of Azathiprine then increased to 75mg. But he couldnt tolerate it,always felt...
HI, I WANT TO KNOW CAN ULCERATIVE COLITIS CAUSE DEATH?? DID ANYONE EVER DIE OF THIS DISEASE? OR BY HAVING SURGERY? I MEAN GETTING HIS ENTIRE COLON REMOVED THEN DIED?...
Hi, As some of you might have read my other post in which i wrote everything about my husband's UC, I'm here again to post up the side effects he has got from Imuran. 2 months ago, his GI put him on...
Hi, I'd like to know if any of you know any good colorectal surgeons in hong kong..please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks in advance...
thanks alot ByeByeUC and suebear for your kind replies and info. i'll see what I can do.Thxxx...
Hi, I have a few questions regarding the use of Azathioprine aka Imuran.. 1- what is the most horrible side effect anyone has ever had by taking it 2-What is the longest period of time you'd taken it...
The biggest thing that makes me cry is - remembering how my beloved older sister slowly passed away right infront of my eyes due to cancer...she was on the hospital bed, taking her last...
Hi, I've posted here before regarding my husband's UC thingy. Right now he is put on Azathioprine-75mg and tappering off steroids- now only to about 10mg per day and also uses pred.enemas when he...
Hi to all the readers, I am new here but have been reading many posts here and feel kind of better to know there are so many people who are in the same boat as us-me and my husband. I always feel...