5 month flare blood/mucos no D & pregnant (medication question)

Welcome! I am currently pregnant with my first child and have been taking Asacol and Rowasa throughout the pregnancy. In my first trimester, I had a flare, and I ended up on a four week course of Prednisone. Thankfully, that put me back into remission. Both my GI and OB have been telling me all along that it is better for me to be in remission and to be on the meds. There is more danger in being in a flare. So far, I am 25 weeks along and am doing well! The baby is perfectly fine.

I think you will find a lot of women on here who have taken various medications during their pregnancies. Also, if you search the posts about this, you will find quite a few previous posts on both here and the Crohn's board about the same and similar issues.

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I think those meds are pretty ok. I'm not sure when I started feeling this way b/c I was super paprnoid with my first children too. You shouldn't have any problems though, just try and take your prenatals and eat well (or as well as you can).
I never took the suppositories but I did the foam. I found it irritating and did nothing, so I didn't take it long. With my last child I took no meds, but did vitamin e enemas and it really cleared up all my minor flares quick, like 3 days (better with one dose, totally well in 3 days). I always suggest doing them to anyone who has minor stuff or just at the end of the colon stuff going on. They didn't work when I had my last major flare (baby was 9 months old) since I didn't use them to try and prevent before it got bad. After it was super bad nothing worked to fix it, BUT the enemas still helped a TON. More than anything else I've tried with this horrible disease (and I've tried a ton of stuff!!).
Anyway, I did the vit e when I was pg b/c I figured it was just a vitamin and it wouldn't hurt him. And it didn't. He's the smartest, wittiest, most perfect, happy little 13 months old you could ever know now! Since it was topical, I figured it wouldn't be absorbed, like they said the prednisone wouldn't that way. Well, I can usually tell the first day I start taking the enemas (kinda headachy and wierd the first day), so I seriously doubt the prednisone wasn't being absorbed from that end.
If you are interested, I did about 10-20 1000iu pills of the -ol (not -yl ending) vitamin e tablets squeezed into a children's enema bottle. Nothing else. Doesn't run or anything, and very soothing.

Sorry, baby's pulling on me and I've got to run, so I hope that made sense!

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dx 4/05 with pancolitis UC after birth of my second child... meds worked randomly