Hello, I'm about to start a course of prednisone (35mg) Is it advisable to get screened for latent tuberculosis before starting prednisone? I know it's a requirement for Remicade and such but what...
Thank you all for your replies. I will try to make this as short as possible. I started having bloody stools at age of 15, after the blood I had diarrhea, I had colonoscopy done and biopsy samples...
Greetings everyone. I want to share my story with you. My symptoms first started with blood..then came diarrhea and after that blood and diarrhea. I would eventually get my symptoms in check using...
Yes I will do this, Thank you. He completely ruled out UC and he was talking about chronic colitis I will talk to him in details after biopsy results, again thank you all....
Biopsy will be available in 6 days. If it's truly that Hyperplastic polyposis, the biopsy should confirm this right? Is there a room for error here?(4 samples were taken including polyp)...
Gosh, I hate being from Non-English speaking country during this time :( The best I can translate it says: "Hyperplastic polypos" + doctor said that there is no need to worry about cancer :/ He said...
@DBwithUC Ah yes, I thought a lot about surgery and given that I had to start with high dose of corticosteroids(with it's side effects) I just made up my mind that I would be happier than having to...
Thank you, unfortunately I do not have older copies they diagnosed me UC based on "ulcers" we even sent one biopsy abroad(Germany) where they replied following: "We could not find any evidence of UC...
Hello everybody.. I have an extremely case to present to you. I had symptoms of what appeared to be Ulcerative Colitis when I was 15 years old. I had 3 colonoscopy, neither which they managed to...