I was a vegetarian for nearly 10 years before my UC symptoms started (and have continued being one since). Not for 'health' reasons, but because I hate the taste and texture of meat. I have gone...
My colonoscopy reports always say 'quiescent colitis', which I assume to mean 'we know you have it, but there is no major evidence of it currently'. The first gastroenterologist I saw (he has since...
Not sure if your 'rookie' comment was directed at me, but I don't consider myself a 'rookie' with UC given I've had it now for nearly 18 years; albeit misdiagnosed for the first 6 and half. As for a...
I started sulfasalazine in September 2006 while I was tapering down on prednisolone. From memory, I started with 4 tabs a day, then went up to 6 as I finished the prednisolone. I was diagnosed with...
I've been on sulfasalazine since weaning off prednisolone following Dx of severe pancolitis in 2006 (misdiagnosed as IBS some years earlier - until developing complications, somehow I lived with it...
aguywithuc, I was on warfarin for 6 months after my stroke associated with UC (cerebral venous thrombosis), and had my INR (how long it takes the blood to clot) tested once a week on average for the...
I was initially misdiagnosed with IBS, and didn't receive a UC diagnosis until 6 years later, largely because I wasn't passing blood & no occult blood was found on a 3-day stool sample. I had severe...
My experience with anaemia is probably quite different to anyone else's. I was severely anaemic (2 µMol/L of Iron; the lower threshold of normal is 9 µMol/L) when intially diagnosed with UC, and...