I started on Lialda after being on ASACOL for 3 years and have been experiencing a flare for almost 90 days. I think the VSL# 3 really helped initiate the remission, but Lialda helped maintain. I'm...
VSL 3 is a super probiotic. A lot of people have taken it on this forum, search for it and you will get some info. I started feeling a TON better since I started it. But, I have to get the CDiff...
Turns out I have CDIFF!!! It all makes sense!!! however, I have been feeling pretty darn good, even great since starting the VSL3 last thursday, I bet it was just overpowering the CDiff bad bacteria....
Just wanted to update y'all, I started VSL #3 on thursday of last week and today, NO BLOOD and formed stools that don't smell rancid!!!! And I have been feeling pretty darn good since Saturday. I saw...
To all you veterans: I have been flaring since december but the past few weeks i've had two good days and then one really bad day, and it goes on. Last week I had one really really bad day and then...
I am going to order the VSL#3 tonight over the internet...hope it helps. I'm going to start slow? One packet per day and work up?...
What would an alternative to prednisone be? I'm under the belief that's the only thing that will help get me out of this flare... i'm calling again to see what the status is on this appointment......
Oh and Burli, funny you said working out, because the day before I was bleeding, I went to the gym... :) Today, i'm better, stomach cramping and urgency, but i'm not bleeding and able to function...
Thank you burli, you have given me some hope. I am tapering 5 mg every two weeks....
Where can you get it? Can it help induce remission?...
I hear you... the blood seems to have stopped and wasn't happening before yesterday, but I have definetly been going in waves. One day of tons of stomach cramping and diarrhea and then two good days...
Pred-foam is probably like cortifoam a steriod foam? It will not go systemic like oral prednisone so you will not have the same reaction... hope this helps!...
I started having bloody stools yesterday morning, and by the afternoon, I was doubled up on the couch and was shivering and aching all over. worst experience ever, probably felt the worst I can ever...
My doctor is very against stopping the taper of prednisone and I have a second opinion from another doctor who specializes in IBD in about a month, but until then, i'm nervous!!! I am so tired of...
Hey all: I have been flaring since dec 12 with some days of relief, but today, it has been straight bloody stools all day, lots of abdominal cramping. I've been on prednisone the whole time about to...
helps a lot!!! THANKS!...
My doctor has told me i'm supposed to be using the rowasa foam enema....i've been using the 4 gm 60 ml enemas for quite some time. I've never heard of a Rowasa Foam, have y'all? Thanks!...
I am so sorry you are having such a sad time. YOu are not alone, I have been experiencing a bad flare as well since mid december. I have to small babies as well, 2 1/2 and 8 mo. And I know how hard...
Hey all: I have a question about prednisone as well. I was diagnosed October 2006 with severe proctitis. This is my first REAL flare...not a good experience. Started Dec 12. History: Prednisone 20mg...
Oh, I just picked up a bottle of Turmeric pills as well, hoping this might help too!!!...
Thanks for all your responses, he got me the kind that has artifical sweetners, so I think i'll go see if I can exchange it for the regular kind or even the pills! thanks so much for all the advice!...
I am in the middle of a flare that has been quite a rollercoaster. I have read a lot of you take metamucil to bulk up the stool. Today was all watery stools all day long. Very tiring...I had my...
Thanks, i'll call him this morning, it has been an awful morning so far......
I started on a prednisone dose of 40 about a month ago, took 40 for 3 weeks, 30 for 2 and now i'm down to 20 and i'm having some more symptoms, does anyone find that their body just needs a day to...
Anyone have luck with this new ASACOL HD? My doc started me on it, and it hasn't seemed to help my flare. I've been on Prednisone and currently tapering down from 40, now on 30. Anyway, the Asacol...
I am going to dr. tomorrow to ask to go back on!! Can't wait to see what he says, i'll take double probiotics tonight! Thanks for the tip!...
Have been experiencing a 2 week flare, have been on 40 mg of prednisone for almost two weeks...still stomach cramping and running to bathroom 9 times plus a day. started aloe vera and some...
I was told by a friend that her relative followed this guys diet and got off her Crohns disease med's for 5 years and avoided surgery. I am a skeptic, and also registered nurse, so nothing I have...