I've been on aza for a couple of years now, my first winter I honestly thought I was catching every cold going, I checked my sick leave records and it seems like it really was a bad season for me....
Hi WingZero,Can't help with any of the LDN stuff but totally go in with a notebook / list! I'm bad with doctors and after making a hash of my first one I went in for my second appointment went in...
Isn't it horrible that when you are feeling your weakest is when the system says you have to fight the hardest to be heard. Your boss and collegues are trying to bully you into leaving to make their...
I've been on 150g Azathioprine (imuran by another name) for around a year and a half now, and after the first couple of weeks I've had no sides effects, it did take a couple of weeks for my body to...
also my understanding is that if you get a mixed starter with biffidum in it after a few generations the biffidum will have outcompeted everything else and be all thats left....
Thats workplace bullying and its absolutely not OK behaviour by your collegues, if it was kids doing it to each other everyone would jump on it and call it text bullying. I kinda want to say that...
When I was a broke student we made yogurt by heating the milk, putting it in a jar - adding the culture from the previous pot, put the lid on it and wraping it up in a duvet with a hot waterbottle....
Hi Bookworm, sorry to hear that things aren't going well. I'm lucky I work in a supportive environment and have a supportive partner - when I was flaring I'd come home from work, sit on the couch and...
I've been on Azathioprine (different brand then Imuran) for over a year now, I'd been on low doses of pred for what seemed like forever but was probably about 7 or 8 months. My GI was at that point...
I got a bit nauseaus the first few days on aza, eventually it just disappeared. Hope this time works out better for you then last time did!...
Just FYI heres another reference http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343%2802%2901383-9/abstract Medication nonadherence and the outcomes of patients with quiescent ulcerative colitis Cheers...
Invercargill NZ of all places, it surprised even me, but when my partner and I went through what we want long term that appeared to be the best option. Healthcare wasn't really factored in - thinking...
Hi Pauly, I'd never heard of not taking probiotics with azathioprine, there is nothing on the fact sheet I have about it, having a search around I only managed to find one reference to something like...
Hi MaxMilian My folks used to live in Wuxi - just up the road from Shanghai, and very much smaller, however it still had excellent medical facilities that the expats all used - expensive though, the...
I'd pick increasing the mesalamine enemas and suppositories over going back on prednisone.... and I hated the enemas! Sounds like you have to do something though, a year and a half must be starting...
I'm on azathioprine (imuran but mines a different brand name) and it working really well for me, ( I feel like touching wood every time I say that!) It may be a big time drug, but I very much prefer...
I was working full time when I was diagnosed with uc - at the worst I was having 15-20BMs a day - I went for the - tell everyone the basics - approach, espicially when I was on a new med, when I...
Yup! (you are never alone!!!) For me I guess its because I spent so long thinking about and tracking BMs that it becomes the new normal, so even when you go back to the "old" normal the new patterns...
yup, nausea and lethergy hit me at 100mg, it took 2 or 3 days to start to fade, and a week for it to go away entirely. I shifted my dose to the evenings instead of the mornings so I could sleep...
Just jumping in from the sidelines - I started taking aza a few months ago -Its kicked in nicely, flare now over. So the vist to the GI this time was much more about what happens now - he sees this...
When I started Aza the GI had me increase the doseage over a few days, 50 for three days, 100 for three then 150. 50 was fine but when I started 100 the lethargy they talk about really kicked in!...
I've never had any problems with pills - lucky I guess - the first few days I looked at the Pentasa and very slowly took them one at a time - now I can do all six Pentasa at once - just keep drinking...
My GI has me on 12 Pentasa a day at the moment, 6 am and 6pm, he says its (obviously) not a maintenance dose, but its hard to OD on and better than steroids! Compared to what I'm reading arounf the...
Hi Krissy, I'm not sure what it all means either :-) - except that given they all work slightly differnetly its probably worth at least asking about what the other options are. I found this link...
Quincy, no big deal - I'm kinda new at UC and have been spending lots of time lately with google scholar! Cheers...
Krissy, This article has a summary table of the 5-asa meds and how they differ - dispersal etc - http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/553568...
Theraputic Advances in Gastroenterology is a new journal - and access is free till Dec-10, you do have to register, http://tag.sagepub.com/ There aren't too many issues yet but some good ones I...
I just updated my profile so my email address is visible - email me?...
Hey 123UC, Where are you in NZ? I'm in Auckland and my GP knows heaps about UC because her daughter has it, managed to get me seen in the public health system within a month (which got me a diagnosis...