Placebo or not, I am still doing well. As far as just covering symptoms as opposed to solving the diesase itself...sheesh, as nobody is 100% sure what even cause this nightmare, I'm just happy to not...
2000 mg per day....
new insurance in January resulted in my Hurmira, for UC, to go from $5 per month to $1900 per month (with a discount by the maker). hence, my 2+ year remission went down the toilet (pun intended)-...
This place may be like the diner on an episode of The Twilight Zone where William Shatner and his girl feel trapped and cannot leave because some little Magic 8 Ball-like thing on their table won't...
Running and biking makes the situation better...until I stop and get stiff. Resistence training with any substantive weights results in pains in my right arm that cause me to have to stop. My doctor...
I'm 47. I'm in pretty good shape and am currently doing cardio about 4 or 5 days per week and doing weights about 3 days per week (though not much due to the muscle aches/pains as of late). Depending...
Went to the doctor today regarding my recent acquisition of pain in my left hip/buttocks area at night which runs down my leg and pain in the meaty portions of my right forearm and bicep. Doctor...
I ALMOST went to a local new age quackster during my last flare...but the psycho look on his eyes on his website led me to believe he was either smoking dope or a nut......
Somewhere somebody's thinking that the government needs to stay out of their colon......
It's all gonna kill us in the end (no UC pun intended). You can die long and slow from too much beef and beer, or you can choke on some tofu...nobody's getting out alive. I should be a motivational...
I hope meds work for you. There are potentially negative side effects, but it's better than unnecessary suffering. If you end up having surgury, I hope that works out ok. Good luck and God bless you....
I hope things work out...I've never been known to be "Mr. Sunshine". I focus way too much on the negative...you know, every bump or spot is a potential tumor....
Had been off the Prednisone for one month....
Forgot to mention that my blood sugar numbers (type 2 diabetes) went from fairly decent to sky high after just one day of the Prednisone. Am attempting a liquid fast today. Just got to work after a...
After months on 6MP and finally tapering off Prednisone, my UC symptoms were mostly all gone. The only issues remaining were fatigue and muscle/joint pain. Then I get a call from my GI's office that...
My regular doctor(s) and my GI are likely vampires. I get bled regularly for just about everything. I'm surprised they don't whip out leeches......
I just saw that documentary on Hulu last night and my wife and I plan on getting a juicer and, at the very least, shedding a few pounds if not getting some super cure for what ails us. It was a good...
Why would you both pat the ticket and go to traffic school? Why describe the cop as an a-hole? Me thinks you drive in an unsafe manner and refuse personal responsibility....
Yea...it's a bummer. before this flare that led to the 6MP and Prednisone, I was woking out 4 or 5 days a week. Was in very good shape. Then I fell ill and got on the steroids...let myself get...
As Jesus said (and I paraprhrase) "...if they're not againts us, they're with us." Or, something like that...at any rate, though I am NOT a fan of giant entities such as "big pharma", the medical...
After months of Prednisone yo-yoing (used in conjunction with Mercaptopurine), I am not having UC symptoms (that's the good news). Unfortunetly, I feel like I've been beaten savagely and left by the...
Some doctors get plain old monetary bribes. Most get "perks", like the aforementioned free food or trips to boondoggles (like ski vacations that are supposed to me medical conferences). It's a scam....
Sorry to hear that your daughter's joined the UC club. It must be especially difficult being in high school. I hope things will get better once you figure out what meds/treatment work best for her. I...
I have found that it's difficult to get a straight answer about such medical costs, which is a good example of why our medical system's screwed up in certain ways. I had to get a test done last April...
I figure she just might think that the grass is greener on the other side of UC land. However, she might later realize that the grass was just a film of green algae over quicksand. Good luck to you...
I just keep all my extra Prednisone after I taper off. I've been on several rounds of prednisone use and they all started at high does and tapered off. In addition, each prescritption I've had had...
New RX will do the trick. That said, I (as a precaution) have a stockpile of Prednisone just in case......
During my lastest flare, I have packed on 22 pounds. This was largely due to my having sverely limited my exercise while feeling crappy (no pun intended) and due to my Prednisone-related eating like...
Life's way too short to deal with worthless doctors. While there's no guarantee your guy will be healed, it seems logical that his symptoms CAN get better with better treatment. One does not have to...
Apparently, it can do bad things to your body/health over a period of time (how much damage, to what degree and just what consitutes a long period of time is subject to dabate). I have been on...
I used to run a lot. Knee discomfort led me to bike more and reduce running. I currently tend to use a stationary bike and treadmill plus lift weights 3 to 4 days per week unless I feel like death....
I have been on 6MP for about 5 or six weeks. Was on Prednisone at 60 mg, now down to 25...am doing well for now. We'll see what happens as time goes by. Initially, I felt poisoned by the ^MP, but not...
Got diarrhea after getting antibiotics (shots and oral) for a cat bite. Took Immodium and three days later I am constipated....
I tried this after my diagnosis of UC- it did nothing and tasted bad. Never have tried the Nopalea stuff they sell on infomercials....
Yes, it's all related. I survived two days shuttered up awaiting tropical Storm Issac watching inane 24-hour news coverage of reporters trying to make a story out of nothing. This somewhat relates to...
Dear God, I've not defecated for three weeks, but my potassium levels are spectacular....
Trudeau? UC secrets "THEY" don't want you to know about? Hee...hee...let's write a 1,000 page book that syas nothing and it'll be a bestseller, like Dianetics. Hee...hee...we're all crazy now....
Woke up this morning with the big D....nice way to start the day...feeling like I got flu-like symptoms. So, is it the Augmentin? Maybe some combo of the 10 million other meds I'm on all interacting?...
Count your blessings in that your blood sugar levels are, in the overall scheme of things, relatively low. Working closely in conjunction with my GI and regular doctors (and I mean I basically live...
Indoor...sweet until it went off....
Well...I'm on day 2 of 3 days of antibiotic injections and a course of oral Augmentin. So far no colitis reflare...did start probiotics as a precaution (tried 'em before and got no results, good or...
I got savagely bitten by one of my cats last night (it got tangled up under our bed and freaked and went psycho as I tried to free it). long story short, the cat's fine but my arm looks like...
Vericose butt veins. As Archie Bunker once said in an episode of All in the Family- "There's no deeper, darker tragedy than painful rhoids."...
yea...the "standard American diet" (SAD) is killing us off...one obese person at time. It's like the movie WALL-E, except it's not fiction....
I recently developed a horrfic set of migraines....felt like something was gonna make my right eye pop out like in a horror movie. It WAS the worst headache ever for me, which under normal...
I opine all of God's creatures have a place on our plates...well, within reason. I'm not into dogs, roaches or cannibalism...but, I digress. I think one thing that detracts from our health is the...
Been on Mercaptopurine and tapering off Prednisone for about 3.5 weeks and my colitis symptoms (most recently being mucus, blood, sudden urge to shat one's drawers and bloating/gas) are gone!...
I opine, that while some good can be obtained from Mercola, there is quckery here....
I'm pretty convinced it was my truing some retarded colon cleansing regime that led to my devloping UC to begin with. I was a moron. Well, I'm still a moron, but I digress...I was uneducated in the...
I draw the line.......