Hi! I've had no trouble running and hiking. It took some time though, to recover from surgery. I felt I didn't fully recover for a year. My only problem when it comes to exercise is heavy lifting and...
OP here. To me there's no way around it, I would have to remove everything :( I have UC that affects rectum and colon. Seems you have been going through a lot, that must have been so hard! Leaving...
I'm specifically asking the females here, what their (honest) experiences are. The possibility that I will have a full colectomy, without j-pouch, is getting more and more realistic. I already have...
Hi all! First - I'm going to talk to my doctor, but I want to hear experiences from people with the same disease. I've been posting from time to time, asking some advice in my miserable situation:-p...
I have been writing earlier about my struggles with going into remission... It just never seems to happen. The last time I wrote, I was starting prednisone for the first time, and experienced that it...
Thanks a lot for your answers!! I forgot to mention, I did try Pentasa enemas, with no success... And the higher the dose with either og them, the worse I got. (Allthough not the first year around,...
Hello all! I am asking some questions here lately... But I would like some advise about meds, to navigate a little, before I talk to my GI again today. For those who read my story, what medications...
Hi! Did you receive treatment at the Taymount clinic?...
I would like to hear as many experiences on FMT as possible, good ones and bad ones:) I’m seriously thinking about it, and would have to find a good clinic in europe....
Thanks everyone. When I run every half hour, it’s most often blood and mucus. I have been talking with the doctor, and we agreed that we should try increasing the dose, and also splitting it....
It’s as if they work for some hours, and then I am just gradually getting worse, extreme urge and running to the bathroom every 30 minutes, and several times at night... Lot’s of blood. But not the...
Both me and my doctor agree that prednisone is only a short term thing right now, and we will have to find other solutions in the long run. And I guess that is biologics, yes... I have a major fear...
Hi. I’m in a really bad flare, really bad.... I do no longer respond to 5-ASA treatment, they started aggrevating my condition. I tried budesonide (entocort enemas) without any luck. Suddenly I...
I'm on Pentasa suppositories:)...
Hi! I'm thinking about trying out these: (url removed). Suppositories with witch hazel, plantain leaf, calendula, slippery elm, arnica, amongst others. All herbs that are either healing for mucosal...