From a long term sufferer who fortunately has good periods of remission I just wanted to pass on my past months experience hoping it may help others. I live in Australia and am lucky to have access...
Can someone please tell Colin ( my naughty misbehaving colon) that waking up nine times through the night is completely unacceptable!!!! Just go to sleep please. It is like having a cranky 10 month...
Big hugs from me too. I've been flaring for six weeks and really feeling sorry and sore after a colonoscopy on Wednesday. I read your post and I stopped feeling sorry for myself and though how bad it...
I do have vitamin e capsules. I'll give it a try. I'm a bit better now than 24 hours ago. I'm on salofalk - day 2 - so hopefully it will kick in. Thanks for the sympathy. I need it. Xx...
The aftermath of the colonscopy has left me extremely sore horrid tenesmus and vomiting and bleeding. Oh and I'm getting a cold. Happy days....
Also they are sending me for blood tests which has never happened before....
Colonoscopy today showed moderate to severe inflammation. They give me the pictures and it looks very sore!! The doctor there blasted my gp for taking such a assive approach to my treatment and has...
Thanks simonde. Xx...
Am going to ask for a colonoscopy this week so they can tell me exactly what my diagnoses is. My fault - I've always ignored the disease and kid myself that it will just go away by itself. Time to...
I'm also taking colifoam and messasalazine tablets. The tenesmus is just horrid at the moment. I strain and strain and just blood and clotty stuff comes out but hardly any poo. When I do pass poop I...
For what it's worth I would give the pred a try. I'm doing the same thing after my not o great doctor prescribed only a week course of pred starting at 50mg and tapering off completely within a week....
Thanks for your advice Alumbai. :) Insofla - no idea why my gp prescribed such a short course of pred. He's a gp so I suppose limited knowledge of UC. Not good enough I know. I wish he had referred...
Thanks for your advice Alumbai. :)...
Well a week later and things are going back to bad again. I decreased the pred from 50 to 25 and the bleeding and tenesmus is back with avengance. Looks like I dropped too much too soon. This is all...
Back again. Just want to say that reading all your posts has enabled me to accept my condition and to become proactive and fight it with whatever it takes to make me better. In the past I've suffered...
Glad to report that day 2 on my second course of pred has made a HUGE improvement. 6 BMS compared to 16 and I actually played golf!!! And made it through the game - just!!! :) This - plus the high if...
I ave to take to 250 g messasalazine three times a day to help keep my UC at bay. I have been told to take it half an hour before food but I am so disorganized I forget. How important is the half an...
Just want to say thanks to all your posts. I have learnt more from you guys than from any doctor. I've had UC for fifteen years - I seem to have a flare up every ten months or so that lasts for four...