3TC I can understand that! I don't feel heroic, things just happened the way they did. My mum is the opposite again, she refuses to be sedated because she is very afraid of "not being in control"....
I agree it was handy to be able to walk out immediately afterwards. I don't know what the policy is in the US but here you're not allowed to travel home by yourself if you've been sedated and I...
p.s. also wanted to mention - i have 2 sisters on humira for crohns (one has it in the transverse colon the other has ileitis). They are both in remission and do not take imuran at the same time....
Re the antibodies discussion, I am at an academic hospital and they told me I can stop azathioprine (imuran) when I start entyvio because there is not the same risk of antibodies as with remicade....
NSSG omg that's so funny about jumping off the table (although i imagine not funny at the time). To be honest I probably would have graded myself as a 3 but the problem is i am british and living in...
P.s. just did a quick google of Gloucester scores: 1 means no discomfort and 5 is severe discomfort....
I've actually never had a flexible sigmoidoscopy - only colonoscopies because of pancolitis in my history so usually they like to check everything. At my last colonoscopy the doctor offered to do it...
Ok so my dr told me beforehand "We will just go up 2 or 3 centimetres, it doesn't hurt" ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Indeed it doesn't hurt but it turns out there's a big spectrum...
Thanks for the synopsis! They are starting fecal transplants at my hospital (experimental) but my doc said it isn't a miracle cure and therefore doesn't suggest it for my (exceptionally persistent)...
Hi i never really had moonface, I think because i never took very high doses (30mg and less) but i did have extra abdominal fat which i hated, I would say that disappeared within a few months of...
Too bad they didn't test it on people with severely active colitis.......
Thanks, i am in the 16th week, so I'm not sure it can get much better than this but at least if it hold things steady i have time to think about things. Tomorrow i have my rectoscopy then on friday i...
So now I've seen that my latest calprotectin is 900, was 1500 a month ago. I know 900 is far from normal but still.... well at least i can be confident that entyvio does "something"......
it might mean you have a couple of cm with some inflammation (the colon is in total about 1.5 metres long). Personally I wouldn't worry about it so much, as it's probably part of the healing process....
Conversely, unless you stick your head down the toilet after every BM it can be difficult to see blood. I've had flares where i thought there was no blood until the diarrhoea subsided, then it became...