I’m at 15% functioning, lots of bloating for years and dumping yellow stool ,nausea and some pain , I saw the doctor today and it recommended I have it out that it might help with the bloating,...
Thanks Old Har and others. No real pain, red meat takes a while to digest. My big thing is staying on the Rowasa enemas those are best for me. They help with my acid reflux as silly as it sounds....
So most UCers have gallbladder issues? I have acid reflux and burning stomach that wakes me for years and PPI don’t help, trying slippery elm and it seems to help. Should I have it taken out? I have...
Did you have to have a drain from you stomach area ?...
HIDA scan showed it’s working 15%, suppose to be 35 and higher. Anyone have their like this and not taken out? ThKs, Linda...
It’s been years, so maybe a barium swallow might be next...
Thank you , thank you!I will go,...
Please respond those who have had this Scan please. Do I go through this when lipase and alymase, liver enzymes are all normal? I have bad acid reflux, but right now slippery elm is helping so much!!...
I’ve tried everything for my burning and recently received a script for Carafrate for my burning stomach, throat and colon, obviously from ulcers. I read old posts and INSoFl posted that slippery elm...
I’m hooked on the Metamucil fiber thin bars, I have a package before lunch, great with coffee, this helps me eliminate the next morning. Drink tons of water, it helps so much for the bulk....
Hi All, Many have known OF me for years and known my struggle. I have had fistula surgery and the tract has not healed for years. The bleeding and then iron infusion are constant. Honestly I wish I...
Good morning I did the Baking soda and water test , I didn’t burp for on hour on first day, drink lemon water 3 times yesterday and ate a pickle to get in more acid, Today it this morning again,...
I did the test this morning and I haven’t burped yet it’s been a half hour. I will start with digestive enzymes that have the HCL in them and go fro there...
If I burp air my throat hurts right behind my Adam’s apple (if I was a boy) lol, but I just trying to tell you where. I lose my voice or it goes weak, sometimes I don’t eat for 4 hours and i feel the...
Hi, I’m from the UC forum, I take this generic loratidine and it helps a lot with my anxiety. It’s a allergy med. I’ve been on lexapro lately and although it works just 2.5 it makes me real tired! So...
I’m getting tested for H Pylori or rather the tests is done, just waiting on results, they already started me on meds....
Hi All, Just hanging in there and trying to THRIVE with positive thoughts. I’ve been on lialda for for months and I get bad burning from my stomach up through my throat and it’s just sometimes air...
Hi :) I was doing so much better, blood work great, colon not bleeding, (had to quit my job over a year ago, on disability, so I’ve been away for a while embarrassed that I’m not working), That’s all...
My enzymes were normal on 9/4 and then I had iron infusion. So this maybe the cause...
Now I have to have MRI, because my enzymes been elevated for over a year. Alk phosphate is at 183 and range is 38-126 AST is 97 and should be 14-36 ALT 144 should be <35 They want to check liver...
I’ve done all biologics. The BP things is how well you colon was cleaned out on a scale of one to ten. I have to have MRI now, liver enzymes have been up for over a year...
No dilation there was no stricture , the CT scan people told me there was. I have scattered pinpoint erosion in the Cecum and ascending colon. Moderate inflammation and shallow ulceration was found...
They asked me to do another half gallon in the am, but I have done a whole gallon today, it’s pale yellow. Nothing in it. I don’t want to do another half gallon in the morning. Any thoughts....
Thank you for your honesty. It what’s you’re going through that makes me triple guess getting my colon removed, yeah what if my body starts to attack my small intestine after my large is removed....
Yep a pity party right now. Im sitting in the hotel room by myself, my husband went to eat with his son , since we are in his college town and here I am drinking my prep, my 50th birthday is today!!!...
Not a way I’d like to spend my bday , and my big 50 at that, but tomorrow is my balloon dilation and I’m happy to get all this over with. So here I sit prepping at 7am. Tonight at 5 and Again at 4am...
Thank you !...
Will I notice huge difference in passing stool after i get this done?...
I can put an enema in and get up and start doing errands within 15 of administering , does this mean my inflammation is going down? I do them twice a day. I am seeing less blood. I know seeing less...
Michigan...
Procedure is 11/2 , I was told I don’t have a high grade stricter, that’s good...
Yes I tried it and used Skips pharmacy in Florida. It did not help me BUT listen, most medication has not helped me. It’s worth a try. Don’t give up on trying,...
Yes I have Perianal fistulizing Crohn’s disease is what Mayo said, . No called back from 3 doctors I called today about the BDE...
This “stricture” didn’t just develop quickly, I was inER last year about righted sided pain and they said I was backed up with poop. They did a CT scan and didn’t mention a stricter. Even this last...
Last year and just inflammation, nothing more. My doc said strictures can come in fast?...
This is the exact wording from scan: “Mucosal enhancement and striated wall thickening splenic flexure, descending and sigmoid colon with hyperemia of the vasa recta. This is compatible to Crohn’s...
I had the same thing and told a possible stricter or very very bad inflammation, where the stool is not passing from traverse colon down left side. I had a CT scan done, maybe you can too. I’m doing...
Is it possible to take Rowasa morning and night for a while? I want to the inflammation down quickly...
Hi! That’s why I’m going to Cleveland, to look at surgery. Can I take Rowasa morning and night or just night? I’m not impressed with U of M so far with my GI. If anyone knows of a good colon surgeon...
I have had a ton Of stool on right side of colon, Doc thinks a stricter. Left side inflamed. So back to nightly enemas. I went in cuz my stomach is so big, must be the poop. Anyone else have right...
I figured some of my pain out and I stopped Asacol HD and I feel human again, no hip or knee pain, almost like I was getting the flu. What meds orally aren’t meselamine ? Is it just sulsafidine? My...
Are you talking about Cool your Guts by Liveleaf? Anyone else they it?...
I’ve been in both as well as Stelara, remicade and 6mp, no luck for me....
This combo of miralax and benefiber is helping my morning pain and the running to the bathroom back and forth. My doc only suggested miralax for my huge bloated stomach, so I began searching and...
I tried Wellbutrin before and it seemed to help a little, but 30mg of Cymbalta once a day has been the game changer for pain!!i noticed after the first morning of taking the first pill, it was that...
Thank you. I started it last night. The 3 I’ve tried make me tired, so maybe at night is best for me. One day in. I’m just proud of myself for tying. I cried just swallowing the pill, anxiety over...
I have always had anxiety, but not depression until I got this darn disease, I’ve tried Lexapro Recently Wellbutrin, because I heard Wellbutrin can put some Crohn’s people in remission. Did not for...
What time of day do you take Cymbalta?...
Thanks, I see you take Effexor. I’m hoping others chime in and tell me what they take and why. I need something along the lines of Wellbutrin, it was easy to come off, no zaps like lexapro. I need a...