If this has already been covered, I apologize in advance. Since I was diagnosed several years back, I began a journal using a printed off calendar by the month. Daily I wrote what I had going on such...
I had both. My meds for one agitated the other disease. Finally after months and months of bloody stools, some pain and no help from enemas, prednisone, humira, Imuran my doc finally suggested...
Praying for Paige....
Who diagnosed you? Was it a gastroenterologist? Was it via colonoscopy? I hope it was a good GI doctor. A family practice doctor who made a best guess is not what you want. UC is a complex disease...
Sounds like a drug reaction. Does it coincide with taking a medicine? He should see his GI doc sooner though. Itching is a symptom of a number of illnesses some of which are really serious....
Yes, just around 8 inches worth that was affected/infected but also had diverticula disease. Drugs for the UC aggravated the diverticula and vice versa. My UC has been concentrated in my sigmoid...
You must have a thorough understanding with your doctors on the process of surgery and the potential issues associated with it. Unfortunately, too many docs are so busy they don't take time or have...
My surgery was hand assisted laprascopic. As I said in another post, I wish I had done it after first year with UC. I'm 65 and the drugs just never worked on me. I was fearful of surgery. Everything...
You did not say what your gastro doctor is saying to you. My doc stresses probiotics and the use of yogurts. Organic ones. He is aggressive in his treatments though. He will throw the script pad at a...
Late summer, I had a good part of my sigmoid colon removed due to a combo of UC and diverticula disease. I had dealt with UC for several years and had been on every med in the book and most often a...
My gastro doc diagnosed me 3 years ago via colonoscopy and biopsy and pronounced UC. The left side was involved. Meds put me into remission but after 352 days I started bleeding. He has a Ph.d as...
You won't know how well you tolerate the Imuran until you try it. My 28 year old son vomited for half a day after taking 25mg of Imuran. My doctor got me up to 50 mg gradually until I hit the right...
Hi Sue, Thankfully, I had my surgery during a healthy state with minimum disease symptoms. Too often, it seems people have to have the surgery under ER conditions or when they are terribly ill and...
OK. I've been on prednisone, azathioprine, humira, lialda, cort enemas (dozens), mesalamine enemas (100s), probiotics etc. I've been on several at the same time. I'm in my mid 60s. Finally had a...
Azathioprine (Imuran) worked well for me. I had to have blood work done every 45 days or so to check liver function. I tolerated it well but my son who has UC also throws up just looking at the...
[b]I'm almost 65. Diagnosed 3 years ago with UC. Had almost a year's remission but then started with the bleeding again. Turns out, I also had a diverticulosis issue. The UC and diverticulosis were...