It makes sense that when your immune system has something else to deal with it would spend less time attacking your gut....
thanks for the advice. I'm going to go see a nutritionist and have sensitivity tests done, but I think I might just focus on decreasing the amount of sugar I eat rather than eliminating it entirely....
It's certainly possible that stress is the cause, not matter how composed, calm or in control I think I am subconsciously I appear to be a huge worrywart. Just today I was having a rotten day until I...
I have trouble with this as well. For me it seems to be any enema will just irritate me to the point of madness within a few minutes. Unfortunately I can't really share any advice, but if anyone else...
I know that I've got to change my diet. I eat too much sugar and have pretty much eaten what I want when in remission... My mother has Coeliac disease, and although I don't it's possible that I'm...
Obviously if you do choose to have some pred again see if you can go on a lower dose than 40mg this time. Since you're only going about 3-5 times a day you probably don't need a full-on dosage....
I'm in quite a similar situation, I just tapered off pred and started getting symptoms again, and that was after a previous steroid course (of a drug called clipper) that had little effect. My doctor...
I'm about to start Azathioprine too. I'm not too worried about side effects, (after all having long lasting or frequent gut inflammation is much more of a cancer risk than the drug) but I am worried...
Update: Very confused, I can't tell if I'm getting better or worse... After an awful sunday morning the rest of sunday was fine, this morning I had some partially-formed BMs (an improvement over D,...
I get nasty gas too, but it seems to be less of a problem as long as I don't have Red meat, eggs or other foods that break down into a lot of gas. I think it's awful that your boss made you quit....
Unfortunately I do very badly with enemas. The mesalamine ones I can't hold in for long and I find uncomfortable when in remission or even painful when flaring, and when I have to have...
that sounds terrible, but rest assured the weight is probably water retention (this also causes the moon face) and should shed pretty fast later on....
It's my first time using pred so I doubt I'm dependant, but it is very possible I tapered too fast. Going straight from 10mg to 5mg then down to 0mg... might have been done better in 2.5mg increments....
whoops, it's double that at the moment, 2000 is the maintenance dose....
I'm on Pentasa (Mesalazine) 2000mg/day to maintain remission, but that might soon be replaced with a suppressant. So far Pentasa has worked okay and even got me out of my first ever flareup last year...
I'm 22 and I just finished my first course of prednisolone, the course lasted 6 weeks, starting at 40mg and tapering by 5mg each week. This not only worked incredibly well and made me feel...