2 years ago I had a colonoscopy and did not show any signs of having UC at all. I quit smoking after 22 years and with in 5 months I'm in the Hospital with the worst flare I've ever had in 36 years....
I understand I drive a truck over the road for a living. And after having a month off with the UC coming back. I'm a little scared about going back but I have to pay bills....
I believe a lot of us are so scared of it coming back that sometimes we jump the gun thinking that it is. And in doing so are stress level goes up so much that we can trigger it into coming back. I...
I believe it effects different people in different ways as does the medication. When I was young I could live with it to a certain point. Then I started smoking and it went away. When I quit smoking...
Jessa33 I believe that is what I'm going to try to do to. Smoke 3-4 cigs a day and treat them like a medication that I have to take. If a person can get the right mindset to do that than I can't...
Thank you very much dmacell I found the website and got the temp card. Going to the pharmacy now to fill it....
Actually I heard it's not actually the nicotine but the carbon monoxide the cig puts out. But I have a new question I went to Walgreen's to pic up the Lialda and about had a heart attack. My portion...
Heard a saying in the Hospital. If you have Crones never smoke and if you have UC never stop. I can believe it!!...
Ended up in the hospital for 3 1/2 days but home now. GI said lower colon was fully inflamed but seem to have gotten it under control. Not bleeding now but still have the runs. They put me on...
I guess I will find out what is going to happen when I see the GI. Just afraid of not getting it under control and losing my job!!...
Back then they thought it had to do with stress. I had it so bad at that time that my doctor in WA said I had to get it under control or they were going to have to do surgery and possibly a colostomy...
It's back and I'm not liking it!! I was diagnosed with UC when I was 14 I had it for 11 years. It has been in remission for 22 years which is when I started smoking. In that time I have gotten...