I just got home from spending the entire day in emerge due to relentless bloody diarrhea. They gave me a dose of prednisone through IV and sent me packing with a script for a tapering dose...8 pills...
I'm newly diagnosed, I started out with multiple trips to the bathroom and all the other fun stuff. My doctoer increased my meds yesterday to 3 pills, 2 times a day, so doubled. First dose I took was...
I'm pretty new to this, I was just diagnosed last month. That's not to say of course that I wasn't battling the symptoms for sometime before that. I find myself crying at the most random times, just...
Thanks everyone, I may try the Imodium from time to time as I have a 5 month old baby and the constant trips to the bathroom are getting silly! Poor little guy spends a lot of time with me in...
I am currently on Asacol 800 mg 3x daily and salofalk enemas at night....I'm not sure if these meds are working or not and I don't have my initial appt with the GI until april 23. I feel so week and...
Thanks everyone! Was a little concerned when I seen it floating in the toilet this morning!...
I just noticed in my mushy bm this morning that there was an asacol shell in it....is this normal? I also have pain when inserting the enema...do these 2 things have anything to do with each other?...
I finally am going to see my family doc tomorrow since being diagnosed with uc last week. I suppose from there she will refer me to a GI doc, until then, I am still left wondering what the heck I am...
Thanks so much for all the support everyone!! It's not as bad as I thought...not great, but not horrible! I'm so happy I found this forum, it's kind of scary when you think you are alone and that...
This is all very new to me and I'm going to be giving myself my first enema tonight....any tips would be greatly appreciated as I have no idea what I'm doing. Does it stay in all night? Does it hurt?...
Hi Everyone, After suffering with watery bowel movements and just plain feeling yucky for more than a year, stomach pain, nausea, bloating etc, I finally had a colonoscopy. The doc came out handed me...