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.

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