Hi Sand&Sparrow, What medication can't you afford? All of the companies that provide medicine for Ulcerative Colitis / Crohns, have financial assistance departments. They should be able to help you...
Seems like changing my diet helped me. I use to eat junk non stop when I was first diagnosed with UC/Crohns and would flare a lot. They put me on Remicade and I would still flare, maybe 3 times a...
Walk 8 miles a day you will lose weight....
I've been on warfarin and I was fine, no bleeding. I changed to xarelto because i had a hard time staying in the theraputic range. No bleeding on xalreto as well!...
Thank you all for your replies! way better info than the doctors/nurses have given me.. I really wish healthcare would wake up and stop being all about $$$ I stopped the imuran and i am back to...
Hello all I hope your all doing well.. I was wondering if anyone had any bad experiences with imuran? I started Imuran (Azathioprine) about a month ago and at first it started giving me very violent...
retnoremv, i just started remicade and i have been having crazy nightmares.. so vivid and real i couldn't even wake my self up.. freaking scary.....
Aren't canker sores inside the mouth? Have you tried 2x daily mouth wash? Those usually clear up mine....
Any males in their 20's taken remicade and had it worked? with little side effects? I am suppose to start infusions in the next couple of days but the side effects are starting to scare me.....
You don't need another colonoscopy I dont think.. My GI told me once a year.. and if you had one in dec 13, you should be good for awhle :P...
They have me on dilaudin and oxycodone in the hospital atm.. and they suck at managing pain.. should i ask for tremadol?...
I guess they never did a flex-sig i guess.. didn't want to damage my bowels? I don't know this isnt the best hospital to be in for this.. all i know is waiting for tb test and starting remicade scary...
-Update- Well there doing no kind of tests now lol.. i am in a ghetto hospital! but they are going to start me on remicade.. kinda scared but cant be worse than the pain ive been going through :P...
Sorry you have the dreadful UC =( But welcome to the group! Try to get back into remission with pred/enemas/apriso and then taper off pred 10mg each week, then taper to 5mg that next week then 2.5...
thank you guys.. we are doing a flex camera whatever that is similiar to a colonoscopy.. i agree i need to change my maintenance meds too! This is day 4 at the hospital! I'll let u know!! thank god...
Diagnosed UC last JULY @ Swedish hospital (good hospital!). Everytime I come off the Prednisone completely & the hydrocortisone enemas and just take my maintenance drug (apriso) i am good for a...
ooohh.. could be I have been eating light the past few days.. good point!...
Thank you all! . I will stay away from the ER unless it gets very bad and i start getting weak.. I think this is just a mild flare though.. only 2-3 bm's a day I dont have the nausea yet or the...
@judy2, thanks! I was thinking the same mindset as the ER/Urgent care would just prescribe me prednisone and send me on my way.. I haven't had health problems my whole life and I am learning how the...
I currently am going gluten free, but I should try the SCD Diet! I have been eating bananas, toast (Expensive gluten free bread lol crazy), chicken (boiled), and creamy peanut butter those are the...
Hello everybody! I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in july 2013, I ended up in the ER after having continuous diarrhea for 2 weeks then it went away and came back.. then I started bleeding and...