Other than making sure not to get dehydrated, does anyone know if being in a flare effects breastfeeding? Also, I'm going to see my doc on Monday- is there a specific medication that I should suggest...
I've been back on the enemas for a week. I don't see any improvement yet...actually my flare seems to be getting worse. I guess a call to my doctor is in order. Thanks for your reply....
At 30 weeks pregnant I had a flare. My asacol and pentasa enemas were doing nothing to help, so my doc put me on predlisone. Thankfully it worked and I tapered down and was fine until a couple of...
My doc had me on pentasa enemas ever since I told him that some symptoms appeared after finishing my two week dose. I asked him if I'd have to take them forever and he said "maybe, if it's what works...
I've read tons of horrible things about predisone, but luckily for me it's brought me out of my flare with no side effects (I'm wondering if this is because it's my first experience w/ pred and I...
A brief history of my experience with UC: I was diagnosed in June 2007 and put on asacol 400mg, 6 pills a day and mesalamine enemas. Symptoms cleared up for about a month, but then a little bit of...
Because of a flare that began about 2 weeks ago, my doctor put me on 40 mg of Prednisone for a week, tapering down to 20 mg for five days. I'm 26 weeks pregnant and my daily asacol and pentasa doses...