After my first prednisone treatment in january I've started with aza and it seems I am in remission, soon I'll see my doctor again and I hope tests will be ok too. Thanks for your support, this forum...
I've been using the enemas for months. But recently I have been using them for two months, every day, since november 2016....
Thank you for your answers. It's tough to deal constantly with this disease and I'm always worrying. I'll call soon my GI and I'll be prepared to any crazy tier-up med. But I'll mention to my GI...
Hi Nana 2, I've never had a colonoscopy but my GI said from my sigmoidoscopy that I have inflammation where salofalk enemas are not efective enough. But I haven't had an appointment yet so I don't...
Hi everybody, I'm having some worrying symptoms and I would love to have some feedback from you. Lately my mornings are very unconfortable ones... First thing, I wake up and I feel the urge to expell...
Probably any kind of lubricant could prevent the medication to have optimal contact with the colon mucosa. When I've used supps I found that melting a little the side of insertion with hot water it's...
I'm a little skeptical about diet modification, I've never found a clear pattern between what I eat and my symptoms. I try to eat healthy and that's hard enough. My oral dosage is 4g of mesalamine,...
I think that medication is not available in Spain. Probably I'd ask for some mesalamine foam but I don't know if that could make a difference. Salofalk enema E.D.O. : BENZOATO DE SODIO (E...
Hi everyone, this summer I have started to have a bad reaction to mesalamine enemas, it seems that they were causing bleeding so my GI changed my prescription to budesonide foam enemas and I have...
I've got a normal number of bms during the day, 2-3 bms/day. Yes, I see red. I don't consume beets, red peppers... I avoid red coloured foods generally....
I've been on daily enemas for 3 and a half months. I'm sure it's mucus, there is mucus in most of my bms, not just in the morning ones where are the enema left overs. I've tappered this past week and...
Hi everyone! I'd like to know your opinion about my symptoms. At the moment my only symptoms are lots of mucus (some of the mucus is red, it must be blood) at my bowel movements. This is the order...
I think you're right. Doesn't seem crazy at all to me....
Hi, here's another chapter of my relationship with this weird illness, your feedback would be great... I suppose I hit rock bottom last summer (July) when my GI prescribed two months of Clipper...
Have you ever travelled with these enemas? It's necessary to protect them from the heat? Is refrigeration needed?...
I couldn't reach my GI today, he's not working. So I'll wait some days. This morning I felt slightly better. I think if I keep calm I'll be fine. There is a pattern here: summer == flaring + doctors...
I've also had chest pain and I suspected the cause might be melasamine. I did a check up with a cardiologist and nothing was found. My GI said that I were vigilant but wasn't very concerned. But my...
Never been there but I would be worried if I could not poop. ER....
Hi, I've been 4 months fighting a mild flare with max dose mesalamine oral and rectal but I think I'm going to lose because I'm having blood and mucus these last week, every day. My next appointment...
Have tou tried changing the dose one day? These meds don't work that way. You should compare at least two weeks with one dose and two weeks with another dose. And you don't have time for that....
I think I can relate, I am feeling the same soreness and tenderness. I agree with iPoop, take your pentasa suppositories. They should help with urgency but it could take some time so don't delay it....
I'm having 4g mesalamine oral and one 4g enema daily. My GI wants to wait two months before considering other medications. I think my problem is that I lean more to the constipation side and less...
I'm in a mild flare and I've been trying to eat low fiber. I think I have less blood but this week I been 3 or 4 days passing small stools and almost no blood and having low abdominal pain (It annoys...
Thanks kazbern, It's easier to face this illness when you can talk with people that understand IBD. I don't have much faith in steroid enemas, I've tried once budesonide enemas without luck (maybe...
Hi everybody, after being 4 months in remission I'm afraid that I am flaring again. I was having 4g of mesalamine pills daily and one mesalamine enema (4g) every other day. Then one week ago I caught...
Didn't have any problem retaining it, it was a comfortable medication, easy to apply and to retain. I have never been on prednisone. My fight is in the rectum too and I am having some success with...
I'm in Spain and I've tried budesonide foam but only for 10 days. It didn't work for me, I found mesalamine medication more effective....
I wouldn't worry too much about those headaches, just comment it to your GI. I think the headaches will fade when your body adjust to the increased medication. When I started with the enemas I had...
I'm using these enemas. I've needed them because my symptoms were worsening. I've noticed great improvent after using them one week. Unfortunately I'm in my 5th week on then and I do not seem to get...
No, I've never tried any other steroid rectal med, I don't know if there are any available in my area. May be a question to write down for my GI....
I'm not happy right now. I'm still passing blood and mucus daily and when I am stressed it get worse. But I am not so bad. 1-3 bm's daily, no urgency, no D, sometimes disconfort in rectum. I just...
When I was using 3 suppositories of mesalamine (3x500mg) per day my GI was concerned that they were too many suppositories. At the moment I use 1 suppository (500mg) and 1 foam enema (1g) daily and...
I have been suffering tail bone pain for years. It seemed that it would never was going to go away. Then, it disappeared almost completely and I was very happy. Months later my main flare of...
Hi everybody, I've notice one pattern, it's quite frustrating. Whenever I am well rested and energetic because I've slept a lot I have lots of blood. Then, when I am exhausted or depressed, I get...
I've never tried 4g mesalamine enemas, It doesn't seem logic to treat a few cm with an enema but I've found that the foam works quite well so who knows. I think they checked my hemoglobin level and...
Almost two years bleeding, at the moment I've got some bleeding with every bm, bright red blood with stools. But I feel mostly ok, 1-3 bms, blood tests perfectly fine... Any hope for my chronic...
I agree with you, no need to lie down and try to use it when you don't expect more bm's for a while. I don't use Canasa, in my country there is another brand but it's similar. And I understand what...
I have just tried again. 13g! of chocolate with almonds (55% cocoa, 25% almonds) in the evening. In 1 hour I had a bm with lots of mucus and blood (I haven't seen this in weeks, lately I just have...
Thanks a lot for replying, I think I'm going to try. I've got less than 4 miles commute (8 miles counting both ways) and I feel that I have enough energy for that ride. I have mucus and bleeding but...
What do you think about cycling? Would it be bad for healing proctitis? I guess is not good but I would want to hear your opinion. The weather is getting better and I am thinking in commuting by bike...
Hi, here I am, still bleeding daily... I thought I was improving and these last weeks I was hopeful, thinking I was going to reach remission because the bleeding was really minimum but yesterday I...
I have 2-3 bm daily, quite normal. More blood in the evening bm, as I've said. I use a mesalazine supp after lunch. And I think it's not the supp what is causing me trouble, I've tried skipping it...
Yes, I'm still on mesalazine. I follow a normal diet, unrestricted. Just curious if someone has experienced this pattern....
I know is crazy because obviously I can't see the infflamation but I used to have more intense burning feeling in my rectum at the evenings. At the moment I feeling better and I do not have that...
do you have more infflamation at the evenings? I find that I feel more infflamation as the day progresses and that the infflamation lessen with night's sleep....
Hi, thanks for your answers. I don't think my GI will take the path of 4g enemas because my proctitis was (and I hope it don't extend) very limited. I've been using rectal meds consistenly since...
It is certainly mucus....
I've noticed that mesalamine suppositories or foam help me with the burning feeling in my rectum but in the bm after having one dose I've got lot of mucus. If I skip one dose my bm has also blood but...
hi, it's my first post in this forum. I've been lurking for a while and I like this forum so I've decided to write, although english is not my native language and it puts some difficulty for me. I...