Pred-Foam Enemas.

Ive been on The pred-foam enama once a night for seven months, to keep the remaining Colitis in the last part of my colon/rectum under control.

Are you on any other oral meds such as Asacol?

If you're having normal bms, no mucus, no bleeding, no pain upon bms, one or two bms daily...you might consider to taper to every two nights.

Do not drop them from nightly to none at all. If you taper, you can find a maintenance dosage.

What did your doc say about dealing with the enemas?

quincy

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Im only on pred-foam I didnt mention I have an Illeostomy (my bad).

In my 16 yrs of dealing with proctitis on and off I was told that using cortifoam continuously will NOT necessarily keep disease activity from re-occuring.

I've been on it for as long as a yr and then tappered, it doesn't release steroides into your blood near as much or quickly as taking prednisone does so this is why there are virtually no side effects from using steroid enemas, plus it's localized with only treating the rectom, possibly a small bit of the colon.

Thing about using it as a maintenance drug indefinitely could increase the risk of it not working as well when proctitis flares again.

:)

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My bum is broken....there's a big crack down the middle of it!  LOL  :)