No actually i stopped them a year ago. Theyre very uncomfortable....
After having diarhea multiple times day and blood. Now no diarhea and constipated for 3 days...
Hello all For those who experience constipation after a relapse. Wht helps with the bowel movement? Ive exercised and eaten salads but still no bowel movement and bloated. Then when i do use the...
No not mucus. Just white dots very tiny like freckles and not on the whole stool. weird ?...
Hello Has anyone experience white dots on their stool (poop) is this normal? And i also went from 5 to 8 bowel movements a day to constipation 3 days average. Is this a sign of flare or maybe the...
So i decided to stop my medications for a few days and i havent had diarhea or abdominal pain or cramps or tenesmus. So now im starting to believe that maybe the medications and pharmaceutical...
Hello Ive had this terrible constant headache and pain around my eyes for 2 days straight. Felt like sinusitis but no flu symptoms. Went to the Emergency room and the doctor gave me intramuscular...
Sometimes after food sometimes not really...
Ive been diagnosed for few years with ulcerative. Not really in complete remission. Ive noticed that i hiccup a lot the past few months. Like 3 or 4 hiccups 2 times a day. Yesterday it happened 4...
Yea im on asacol mesalazine 4800 mg Prograf tacrolimus and imuran azathioprine...
Has anyone with uc experienced a change in bowel movement and developed constipation for days instead of the usual diarhea every 2 hrs ? Is this considered a flare or what :(...
Has anyone tried tacrolimus? Any feedback?...
There doesn't seem to be enough information as to why ulcerative colitis or inflammatory bowel diseases in general are highly prone to thrombosis and clots. And I read in a research that it increases...
Steroids helps a lot when you are in relapse. But it will take time maybe a week or week and half. Make sure you take calcium supplements and if you develop heartburn take some PPI or something. I...
What do your doctors think about CRP blood test for disease activity? My CRP was 24 in the summer and I was bleeding and in severe flare up so i was put on steroids for 4 and half months. Then it...
Hello everyone, Since Ive increased my imuran azathioprine dosage to 150 mg i feel like my immunity is horrible. Went to do a blood test and ended up sith this weird flu bronchitis thing for almost 5...
Thanks all for your replies ! Quincy: yeab im on imuran 150 mg , Asacol 1600 mg 3 times a day , zantac calcium and multivitamins. As well as enemas and suppositories. Just stopped steroids and...
Just a quick question, has anyone felt like their symptoms became worse or better when they work out rigorously at the gym ?...
Stress has brought on flares and relapses. During exams and during fights I always seem to have more diarhea and blood and takes months to get back on track and in remission...
Thanks connor77 for your explanation. I hope i don't need to go back up to 40 mg. This time the skde effects have been treating me bad....
That's not so good news :( Biksteeda what did the doctor do whenever u dropped less than 20 mg and relapsed ?...
Hello, I'm on my 12th week of prednisone (steroids) started with 40 mg and tapered to 5 mg (1 pill ). Before i started the steroids my crp and wbc were high. Then a month after steroids they became...
So sorry to hear that! I'll tell you about the steroids and my experience with it at the moment. The first couple of weeks on steroids was the worst when it came to my sleep. Would lay in bed for...
I stop them soon hopefully cant wait for all these side effects to go away. Thanks everyone for sharing it feels better to know im not the only one. The weight gain and moon face are the worst for us...
Thanks John you are the best !...
Hello, I've been on prednisolone for 3 months now. Started with 8 pills (40 mg) because I ended up with severe inflammation , ulcerations , crypt abscesses and cryptitis in my colonoscopy in July. So...
The restlessness and insomnia is the worst. I also felt like my face became rounder and just very sluggish...
Thanks John I'll ask him about it!...
I dont think he took a biopsy of the terminal ileum. the report says rectum and stomach antrum. I'll make a note of that to ask him on Wednesday. Can't believe i could have crohns after...
Doctor appointment will be on Wednesday. He didn't see the biopsy results yet but I'm hoping its not crohns. I feel like uc is less of a hassle. Just wanted to know if this kind of findings in a...
Hey guys Just got my biopsy results and it says i have mild chronic gastritis and I'm wondering if it's related to ulcerative colitis or from medications? Could it be the reason for my recent...
Probably one of the best posts and so spot on...
Ill try getting injected in my shoulder. I read somewhere that its less painful if theres more subcutaneous fat and then another site said the opposite. Not sure which to believe. But since you guys...
Thanks so much you guys and I'm so sorry to hear that there's a lot of us on the same boat :( hopefully after the vitamin b12 injections my mood gets better. This disease is such a burden and limits...
My calprotectin level was >1000 a year ago and that's when my doctor started predinsilone. Last month it became 700 and he wasn't too stressed about it, its just a sign of inflammation I guess?...
Has anyone tried the vitamin b12 intramuscular injections? I heard they're super painful and can hit the sciatic nerve?? If anyone has any tips or experience please share, kind of freaking out and...
Hey so I just underwent my 3rd colonoscopy in the past 3 years ive been diagnosed. My proctitis from 11cm became 20 cm and the new finding was terminal ileum inflammation. Is this normal in...
O negative with ulcerative colitis ...could be an association since a few other people in this forum stated O negative?...
Hello, I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and the past year I was in remission for maximum 2 weeks, every 4 months basically. My bowel movements have increased and bleeding per rectum daily. I'm...