Cannabis might actually promote inflammation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576702/ However, it is very clear cannabis helps with nausea, appetite, and generally feeling better....
Hello. I was diagnosed with pancolitis about four months ago. Initially I received Lialda and Prednisone. I did the pred taper over a little less than two months. Two weeks after starting meds I was...
Actually there is one recent study which shows SCD alone can induce remission. There are a handful of other documented cases of diet alone inducing remission....
Hi, sorry for your troubles. You need a colonoscopy as soon as possible. Find a gastroenterologist who can do one the earliest. Call around....
Stress is the main factor in flares for me. The type of stress school can induce is so great personally, and so prevalent in other stories I read of UC, that I'm considering dropping out of school...
Went to Walgreens to pick up my prescription for Lialda and Rowasa. I have Medicare Part D. The pharmacist came back with a price of $1494 per month for both. I freaked out for a second. He then...
Since you seem to only respond to diet modification, why not take it a step further and go full on SCD, employing the stages? It might take weeks, or months, before it works, if it does work. It is...
The SCD diet: I believe it alone put me in remission last spring, but I did not stick with it. After being on it a few months, and being symptom free, I went on a multi day hiking trip. I did not...
After five days of prednisone my symptoms went from lots of pain and diarrhea upto 20 times per day, to no pain, no blood, and going 5 or 6 times per day. Sometimes even sorta formed stools. I'm...
Hi. I have not taken Colazal but apparently it works well for some people. Was Lialda working for you, other than the hair loss?...
Tier 1 would be mesalamaine. Tier 2 prednisone. Tier 3 remicade. Tier 4 colectomy. I'd try smoking again before Remicade. I'll try a bunch of stuff before that though. Such as Fecal Transplant,...
Cool, thanks....
I just recently was diagnosed with UC a few days ago. I've had undiagnosed UC for probably five years. Up until diagnosis a few days ago I had never taken medications. I'm currently taking Prednisone...
If I start to react to sulfalazine I plan to switch to lialda. What retention enemas do you suggest? I see you take salofalk? Is canasa as effective as the retention enemas? How about cortifoam if a...
This is an old thread, but for those of you that were allergic what types of reactions did you experience, and when? What was your dosage? I wanted to try sulfasalazine before mesalamine mostly due...
I'd rather smoke a small rolled cig once per day, if it were effective, and tier 1 meds were not. I'd try it again before surgery. I'd probably do anything but surgery; unless it involved growing a...
First they did a CT scan with contrast. Blood tests showed some anemia. Stool tests were negative for infection, and positive for inflammation. They did a full endoscopy and colonoscopy. All the...
Most Cannabis has been bred to be extremely high in THC, and extremely low in CBD. Strains from decades ago had a much more balanced ratio. The effects of THC, and CBD, are generally diametrically...
I quit smoking in 2006 after five years. In 2012, after a period of extreme stress, I had what I now recognize to be the first symptoms of Ulcerative Colitis. I was thirty years old. I started...
I have a colonoscopy scheduled in 8 weeks. A gastroenterologist I spoke with said I likely have colitis, which could be caused by a variety of things; infection, ischemia, celiac, autoimmune, etc....
I've had what appears to be Ulcerative Colitis since late 2012. Early on I dismissed it as hemorrhoids as my symptoms were rather mild. There is a strong correlation between stress and symptoms for...
Have you tried nicotine? I spent yesterday drinking coffee, eating a bunch of spicy mexican food with loads of bean, cilantro, onions, and other raw veggies. Normally I'd wake up the next morning...
This is my first post here. I've been lurking around the web for some months doing research. Male Age 35 About 4 1/2 years ago I experienced symptoms of what I now know to be associated with UC. For...