progression of UC

can someone please share with me how were they diagnosed with UC? How much (cm/inches) was it limited to? How did it progress? and over what period of time.

much appreciation to all of you

30y male

ASACOL 2(SUPS)

ASKED BY DOCTOR TODAY TO START 6PILLS + 2 sups.

I had diareah for 2 weeks then it turned to bloody diareah. I went to the doctors and she set me up with a GI, who gave me a colonoscopy. I was then told that I had UC and it was throughout my whole colon.
I always had digestive problems ever since I had my gallbladder out in the 80's. I then was told that I had IBS in the 90's.
I think I had UC longer than before I was diagnosed. (2005) There was a time when i was bleeding, but i just thought it was hemeroids. I quit bleeding for about 5 years, then all hell broke loose, in July of 2005.
Janice

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Diagnosed July 2005 with Pancolitis

Asacol 4 tabs 3 times daily

GNC Probiotic

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I was diagnosed way back when...in 1961.
I was 15. It came on suddenly. I was out ice skating, came home, had a bath and went to bed. Woke up an hour later with terrible diarrhea that lasted all night, a fever and achy.
My parents took me to the doctor where I had recently had work done on my sinus.....thinking it was an infection. For a week, this jerk doctor acted like I was faking it and just told my parents to give me aspirin for the fever. After a week, my dad got frustrated and took me to the regular family doctor. After a few days, he put me in the hospital. In that short period I lost 30 lbs and needed six blood tranfusions.
There were no colonoscopies (at least not at that hospital) so they kept doing barium enemas. And x rays. It took them two weeks to give it a name...ulcerative colitis.

Forty six years later and I still have UC but the symptons have gotten progressively better. I have been getting yearly colonoscopies for 30 years. And my condition having gone from severe pancolitis in the first year to moderate left side for decades to mild for now.

I have been taking Azulfadine for the past thirty years. I went for about five years in my twenties where I refused to see a doctor, because the first several years I was on prednisone a lot, and I got tired of all of it. Luckily I have never had to go on any other drugs or have surgery, though there were many times in my twenties when I wished I could just have the darned colon removed.

That's my long story....

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diagnosed with UC in 1962
regualr meds:
Asulfadine (500mg tablets, 6 daily)
Folic Acid
Zantac as needed
open heart surgery in 2005 for removal of aortic root aneurysm