So I have been having a really bad flare for the past couple months and I've been doing what I can eating simple foods, cutting down on drinking, so on. Any who so today after a stressful day at work...
Hi, So I have decided that I really want kids (although I need a man for this, and dont have one picked out yet), it is one of the main reasons why I chose to not have the surgery. However I worry...
You could maybe try black tea or pepsi/coke. It may give you a little energy boost, if you have not drank caffeine in some time. Works for me! Hope this helps....
Pred sucks! I was on 60mg for about 3 (almost 4) months, and IV steriods for a week, and I bloated like none other. My face, stomach, and legs got the worst of it. For the bloated legs walking and...
Hi, I was in the same position that you are in a few years ago. I didn't want the surgery, for me it was the pregnancy problems (many women have had problems getting pregnant who have had their colon...
Hi! So everything is going good for me, I have been studying abroad for about 2 months now and haven't had a single flare (its very nice). However I'm almost turning 21 (July), and my doctor right...
I am planning on studying abroad second semester this year at Kings college in London, and I do know that there is a Kings college hospital that my USA doctor suggested I look at to get in touch with...
I have been told that it is okay to drink a little alcohol with methotrexate, I believe it was something like two or three drinks per month...
Hi, I have a question about vicodin and drinking. I took a vicodin at about 6am for these headaches that I get, which is 5mg/500mg, and I was just wondering how long I should wait until I drink. I...
Thanks for all the advice. For exersise usually I swim (i'm on the swim club at my college) or I'll run. I took yesterday off, so I decided to run for like 20 min or so today plus I feel a lot...
So I have been flaring for about a week now, and day I had a bad episode of D. I'm not too worried, I'm taking VSL #3 about 4 times and doing cortifoam rectal meds every other day. But I usually work...
Hi, my name is Jordan and I have posted on this site a couple time before. At the moment everything is perfect, I have been good for almost a full year and I am begining to taper off of the...
I had the same problem with the remicade, it was working great at first but then it just sort of stop working for no reason. My doctors then switched me to Humira and its the best thing that has...
Thanks a lot this is all really helpful Jordan...
Just wondering for those of you in remission, when you flare what symptoms to you tend to see first? Pain? Looser Stools? Just wondering because everytime I go I almost have to talk myself down and...
I just had a bm and everything is a-okay!! SO HAPPY! Thanks again...
Thanks, I'll see how things go today, fingers crossed!...
the cramping was right before my bm, and it was more in my colon then my rectum. My UC is pretty much throughout my colon. I took an extra VSL #3 just incase but I'm pretty sure its not a flare, I...
Hi my name is Jordan and I have been battling my uc with humira and prednisone. I have been good for about 4 months so far and really hope this is it, fingers crossed, knock on wood. I usually go...
Hi, okay so for about two months now i have been wondering if i am in remision. for my stools they are completly formed (sometimes softer than others but always formed), no blood, no urgency to go...
Hi my name is Jordan and for the past couple months I have been doing great, but then this saturday I started getting a tiny bit of blood when I wiped. this kept going on and got worse on Tuesday...
sorry also forgot to say that I have also been haveing butt pain, more like its just uncomfortable, after i have a movement...
Hi I've been haveing some problems lately with my ulcertive colitis. I've been off the steriods for almost three weeks now and lately I have been having blood in my stools. But the blood is red and...
try differen or if your skin can handle it you could try retin-a. also the thing that made the biggest difference for me was birth control...
well i think im going to see how tomorrow goes and if its similar to today then ill bump it up for a day or two. I actually really like the humira i think its working(hope its working), im taking it...
drink a lot of water it helps. um truthfully i have never been completely off the steroids but last summer they put me on IV steriods(the highest dose) and i blew up like a hot dog in a microwave. i...
hi ive been tapering off the steriods and I've been on 10mg of the hydorcortisone for about a week and a half. my stools have been good mostly formed but today i had a acceident on the way back to my...
oh and I was on colozal but I dont think it did anything for me, so I stopped taking it....
humera is like remicade. I was on the remicade but we (me and the doctors) felt that it wasnt doing much for me. along with the medication I am also taking fish oil, and vsl3. for humera this friday...
Hi my name is Jordan, and I have had ulcertive colitis for about two years now. I have never been fully off the steriods, every time I am almost off I get a flare up. I have recently had a little...