My boyfriends been on Remicade for the same amount of time as you and had to have his dose increased as well. He was at 400mg every 8 weeks and now he gets 600mg every 8 weeks. He's still not in...
Thanks iPoop. My boyfriend isn't flaring badly but he's close to the time for his next infusion. he feels like he's in remission until about week 6 so they may have to change his intervals from 8...
I know that many if not all people see blood when they're flaring. My question is can you tell where your inflammation in your colon is based off of the blood that you see on the stool or on the...
For those of you that have built up antibodies how does the joint pain start. Is it sudden and terrible everywhere. Or does it start out small and mild?...
Question for Ipoop? Because you are on so much medication how do you know that eliminating alcohol would not help your UC? When my boyfriend was in the peak of his drinking days he flared the worst...
A few weeks ago I posted in here about my boyfriend's UC and the possibility that he might need to up his dose in Remicade. Right now he's on 7.5mg every 8 weeks and 2 tablets of Lialda in the...
Hope everything goes well Bacon Girl. I wish the side effects for biologics were so scary sometimes. I know for the most part they give people their lives back but it's still not foolproof....
Just went to urgent care for this today. They put me on 20mgs of prednisone for 5 days and told me to use my rescue inhaler as needed. Was getting so bad that nothing helped and I was getting really...
I didn't mean to cause such a commotion with my post! I was reading about trans fat and I'd seen specific details in the articles that caught my eye "Excess inflammation is believed to be among the...
So I've been doing some research and most studies confirm that the specific inflammation markers that are increased when consuming trans fat are the TNF-a protein. I was wondering if anyone noticed...
I don't know if he's tried anything like Rowasa. I know at a lot of medications didn't work well for him but because it's like Lialda I think it could really help if he tried it I'm not sure if it's...
Swalke25 what did you try before Simponi?...
He's still only at the 7.5 dose while I see a lot of people on here seem to do well at the 10mg at a 6 week interval. I've seen posts on here saying that sometimes even that doesn't work? He also...
The reason I focused so heavily on diet was because we spent the entirety of Valentine's Day and the following day together and usually the second week in after his infusion he can eat just about...
thanks iPoop for answering my questions. I don't want to micromanage him I just feel that it's a little frustrating to plan meals sometimes. He's so quick to eat things that he knows trigger him that...
My boyfriend believes that accutane and stress caused his UC please take precaution....
Hey guys I'm brand new here and I have so many questions. My boyfriend has had UC for 10 years he's been on Remicade for 7 of those years. While the side effects from the Remicade terrify me the idea...