I think stress has the ability to cause a lot of negative effects, but maybe it works alongside other things like bad diet, chance illness, etc. in starting a flare or flare-like symptoms. Personally...
I forgot to mention I have an upcoming colonoscopy (and an endoscopy because of slight random gastritis). Also forgot to mention that I was on prednisone that started at 40mg but tapered off...
So I had my first checkup with the GI a couple weeks ago with the last one being in July, and my Dexa results came back showing lower than normal density. On top of this I apparently lost 7.5 pounds...
Not sure if it's due to your regular gut flora changing/dying or from the inflammation, or both/neither, honestly just guessing though. When my symptoms first started gas started to get particularly...
Thanks for the replies everyone. Enemas don't sound like fun but that's coming from someone who's only had to swallow pills so far. My GI team was fairly confident in my case that an oral 5-ASA...
With pentasa I'm taking 2 x 250mg capsules every 6 hours but I'm a little worried whether or not I'll start becoming unresponsive to it....
I've been 100% fine since I was put on prednisone and pentasa in march, tapered off just fine and have been on mesalamine ever since. Since ~1 month ago have been getting mild to moderate cramps...