If the Canasa helps, the doctors will probably advise to keep taking mesalamine as maintenance medication. If it doesn't help they might move to something stronger. I myself was immediately given...
I also have problems with pentasa. But it took me a year to find out. I was put on pentasa straight after diagnosis and a corticosteroid. After tapering the corticosteroid out I was more or less OK....
Just an interesting read. Apparently the advent of farming caused genetic modifications that increased the risk of UC: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/03/13/016477...
I think I have experienced the same ucwarrior, foul smelling gas on the onset which disappeared during the flare. I thought the bacteria that produced the gas just died off during the flare....
Try it and see what happens. I eat it often, only with mild setback just the day after....
I have the same experience. Alcohol (in moderation) helps. I can even stop (mild) flares with it....
It seems to have happened to my father. Suffered from it from his 35-40s, then it faded away (he is in his late 60s now)....
I got the Tasectan in Belgium. I seemed like a recent product. It was also available over the counter....
I also had a bacterial infection recently. I took me a couple of weeks to get over it. My doctor also advised against Immodium. He suggested to use Tasectan instead. It helps healing the colon. It...
With me, it sometimes seems to help with the symptoms. I have noticed a few times already that I start to have diarrhea then some alcohol (like a good glass of whiskey or a couple of strong beers)...
Maybe try home-made kefir? Lots of folic acid + probiotics. I have been drinking it for a couple of weeks. It seems to help me a lot....
I am also taking pentasa granules. My GI told me to start with 4g a day - 2g in the morning, 2g in the evening - to try to get into remission. Later, when the colon looked OK, he told me to switch 2g...
Thanks all! kazbern: It was an endoscopy. The symptoms didn't get worse immediately. Only after a week. Just when my daughter came back with the viral or bacterial infection. I think the latter...
I had an endoscopy two weeks ago and everything looked fine. Therefore my GI suggested to reduce the mesalamine from 4g to 2g daily. Since last week by BM have become worse and now I am dealing with...
Thanks Gary! I will check it out....
Beer, even the non-alcoholic ones. Is it the yeast? And spicy stuff....
Concerning jobs you can find something here: http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=3106187 ...
I have pancolitis and never seen a spec of blood, only lots of D....
Thanks everybody! That all makes sense. An other worry that may arise is that the frequent antibiotics use creates some superbacteria in your guts....
I live in the greater NY area. I work as a researcher, so I am rather flexible. I tend not to miss out on socializing events at restaurants or bars. Even though sometimes I can't eat or drink along....
Thanks princesscolon, quincy. I am pretty sure she has UC (they call it chronic colon inflammation here). Had it for at least 30y. She is currently taking no other medication. She had others in the...
My aunt has left-sided colitis. Whenever she is flaring she gets into remission by antibiotics (in a cocktail together with some anti-anxiety medication and painkillers) on her doctor's prescription....
Thanks soystud. I had the same reaction when I found out....
I have never had problems with that and I used to drink a lot of soy milk over the last year. Another question: Is the carrageenan in the soy milk actually something to worry about? I recently...
I have also been diagnosed only very recently and had the same question. It seems to me best to try the other usual options first before moving to surgery. Once the disease really becomes unbearable,...
What do I tell people? You could tell that you suffered a shark attack, had a cesarian, ... Endless possibilities here. Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it. People that have problems with it are not...
Did you get these statistics for colon cancer from your GI? The numbers I see everywhere is that for pancolitis it is 1% cumulative each year, so 20% in 20 years, 30% in 30 years. And there is some...
Recently, I also became worried about side effects on kidneys, etc, due to the mesalazine. The doctor just did a blood test. (All was OK.) I also often have yellowish poos. Depends on what I eat....
The seem to be recruiting participants for the study ``Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis in Children'' atm: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01947101...
I am taking the Pentasa (Ferring, Belgium) at the moment. They are granules which you have to wash down with some water. Definitely don't chew! They never dissolve in my mouth. They shouldn't....