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Hello, Can you please tell me if Mesalamine/Mesalazine/Pentasa can cause delayed seroconversion for HIV ?

I would recommend that you remain on the lowest dose of medication possible that keeps you in remission. In terms of alternative medicine, as long as the therapy you are considering has no side effects and has some proven rationale I would not discourage you. However, keep in mind that many of these therapies have not been scientifically tested and may have adverse effects. I hope you find this information helpful.

Pred may be a necessary evil but only for short-term use. Long term if you do not respond to asacol/ pentasa there other other options eg. azathioprine. I would also recommend avoiding dairy (although you should take calcium suppliments and yoghurt is ok as it is live), seeds, nuts, the skin of fruit and veggies - as this can irritate the colon. Try to limit your salt intake when on steroids to limit moonface, but it will go down~ eventually...

He has taken predisone twice but we have always refused the stronger meds due to the side effects and long term effects. He is feeling so awful and he is in so much pain that we are strongly consiering the methodtrexate injections that our dr is offering. Has anyone here had experience with this medication with kids/teens?

Hi again Becca - please be aware that eating loads will make you put on a lot of weight - with steroids you get moonface, a big fat pad on the back of the neck and I went from 60 lbs at diagnosis to some 150 lbs in 6 weeks. My doctor put me on a 750 a day calorie diet as the weight was affecting my heart. I am only 5'2" so 150 lbs was way out of comfort zone. Also be aware of another long term effect of steroids - thinning of the bones.

, Lialda®, Asacol®, Pentasa®, Dipentum®, etc.) and prednisolone/cyclosporins. The last two medications have more side effects especially on long term usage. Therefore, you need to discuss with your doctor about the possibility of switching your medication to 5-ASA compounds. However it depends upon the severity of your disease. Management also depends upon the part of the gut which is affected by ulcerative colitis.

One of the scariest side effects for me was the fact that long term use of it can cause lymphoma. My doc said for every 1000 people on Imuran one person will get lymphoma, That is not a statistic that I want to be. Prednisone is also one of the worse drugs on the market that anyone could possibly take, but I hvae had to a few times. I would rather take the prednisone anyday then the Imuran. Currently, I am on Pentasa and it is working amazingly well.

I've been told i'll have to be on pred for 6 weeks because i've heard of the long term side effects ie weight gain,acne, sleep insomnia etc i'm thinking of speaking to my consultant which will be on the 5th of aug and ask if i can take something else that would not give me these side effects in the long run. Yet again thank you for your comments.

I've been on Entocort EC, which is a steroid that can only be used short term. I was on Imuran for a few weeks and the side effects were horrible! Worse than the disease! My GI Dr just put me on Methotrexate injections weekly about a week ago. Can you or anyone tell me what side effects to watch for? I had a bout of vomiting and some fatigue so far. Thanks and bless you all!

while Flagyl can have some pretty nasty side effects, some docs will prescribe Cipro long term for maintaining remission. when you said you stopped 6mp cause of toxic levels, where you referring to metabolite levels based on the tests by Prometheus Labs? were you having any other problems/side effects from the 6mp (nausea, vomiting, elevated LFTs, etc)? did you try to lower the dose first to see if blood work improved? is your disease primarily in your colon? mostly distal?

is this advisable or a last measure? His Gastroentrologist wants to put him on Flixamab, will this help him long term? Or is it better that he goes through the Ileostomy solution in the meantime or maybe this has to treated from all areas surgically and through medication. My main query though is how do you enhance an appetite in Crohns and build up a young person?

My doctor has me on 1 gram of Pentasa 4 times a day, and Welchol for the diarrhea. I was on Entocort for a short time, but it really didn't help anything, and wasn't worth the expense. Are there any preventative measures about which I may be unaware? I have an appointment with my GI on 12/20. I'm curious what questions I might ask him about this. Thanks for your help.

My GI prescribed Pentasa as a long term medication to see if we can keep it at bay. Good Luck!! I hope the remicade works for you.

Hi all - well, had a 4 hr session at the hospital yesterday, initially with my bc surgeon for some complications in the breast where I had bc - he said it is long term effects from radiotherapy. Had a mammo and ultrasound and the radiologist agreed. Wish they had told me of these long term effects before. Thankfully, no new tumours found. Surprisingly, he has now referred me to a Professor of Endocrinology - complex "multi factorial problems" as he put it.

The fact is that I finished TX 2 months ago and I feel fine now (with a slight pain in the URQ) I don't know if I'm UND but I do feel like I am and I wouldn't mind using this pentoxifylline for a year. I guess it is used for something else right? Do u know the SX? or effects long term??

Hi, I have heart disease with chronic angina and was recently diagnosed with colitis. I'm taking Pentasa for the colitis, plus several heart medications and am feeling well in general. My GI doctor also prescribed Percocet, twice daily for moderate-to-severe abdominal pain. I've discovered that the pain medication helps with the angina: when I experience "chest pain" now, I only feel pressure.

Patients who do not benefit from it or who cannot tolerate it may be put on other mesalamine-containing drugs, generally known as 5-ASA agents, such as Asacol, Dipentum, or Pentasa. Possible side effects of mesalamine preparations include nausea, vomiting, heartburn, diarrhea, and headache. Some patients take corticosteroids to control inflammation.

And that, in all likelyhood, your daughter will need medication to control this disease long term if not forever. Accept it today and you will buy you and your daughter a much smoother course in the future. I cannot stress how important a good GI (peds GI even better!) is going to be to her course. Become a memeber in the Crohn's and Colitis foundation ASAP. In this disease, through the alternative medicine out the window.

My rheumatologist give me a shot of steroids, which helped me get back on my feet and back to work, but said that only the steroids keep my arthritis under control at this point and he is suggesting to put me on Humira as a long term solution. Initially I agreed for him to get approval from my insurance to get the approval, but after reading a few horror stories about the side effects of Humira I told him to hold off.

Been on Asacol,Pentasa,Dipentum,Rowasa enemas , 6MP, Cipro, Flagyl and some others I cant remember right now. When nothing else would work I would go on mega doses of Steroids and the bleeding would slow way down but never stop. But last Feb.moved, new Doctors, like starting over. I had a General Practitioner for Thyroid, Heart, Arthritis, Bi Polar and some other stuff. I got a GI Doc for the Gerd and Crohns.

For 5 months i've had chronic diarrhrea which sometimes has slime in it,i have lost just over 1stone since haveing this diarrhrea and i have now been put on Mesalazine ;pentasa; suppositories as they believe i have some sort of inflammation be it colitis or crohns etc. i was also put on Uniroid-HC as i got hemmeroids which caused me to bleed everytime i went toilet. the hemmeroids have now cleared up.

Dear Richard and Graham, and any other interested folks, Richard, BRAVO, BRAVO, AND MORE BRAVO! Good detective work there! Graham, get the "paper insert" for the Pentasa (Mesalazine, I believe), and for the Mesalamine, both being aspirin derivative, anti-inflammatory meds, I think. Get the "insert" from the pharmacist who SOLD you the drug (or from any helpful, caring pharmacist whom you know.

, we're concerned about the long term effects of such potent drugs. Any moms and dads out there with experience? We're probably going to seek a second opinion from Boston as soon as we can.

The fact that you have already been diagnosed with Chronn's disease would make this even more suspect as deficiency can be one of the side effects of Chronn's. Ask your doctor if he has tested your b12 level and don't accept that it is "normal" without knowing the actual result. Many people have suffered neurological damage because some doctors are still unaware of the levels at which serum b12 becomes suspicious.

However, there are very good current treatments to keep the disease in remission - it is not curable, nor terminal, but is termed a chronic intractable disease. By "chemo", which drug are the doctors prescribing? I only ask because I have been taking methotrexate (one of the chemo drugs that used to be given for breast cancer) for some 7 yrs, with a 4 month break for FEC chemo when dx with bc in 2003.

After many doctor visits, appointments with numerous specialists (including an RA specialist, after taking many ugly meds with bad side effects) I was sent to a GI and diagnosed with Chrons Colitis. He said that the arthritis is a direct side effect of the Chrons. I only got my life back after a crazy regimine of steroids and Celebrex. Now I am being weened off of the steroids (it is painful and the arthritis flares up every now and then) and am on Imuran and am bouncing back.

I hv ulcerative colitis & on Pentasa 500mg since 2 yrs. Happily married but committed the greatest sins ever: Oct10 this year I went / my colleagues to Ger on business visit & went to Koln FKK, I had 2 escorts protected vaginal w/ no defects-unprotected oral/receiver only) - 2nd nite the same but w/ 1 French kiss 1-2 min.

I am 24 years old and I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about the after effects of having one removed at an early age. I have read lots of different opionion online about most scare me to death and all are different. Any experience you have would be great.

I had chronic heartburn for 30 years, as long as tums or tagamet were available and I wasn't doing alot of complaining my Dr. never suggested any furher testing...18 months ago a Dr. did suggest an EGD. That test saved my life. since then I have had 10 repeat EGDs, many dilations, Referred to one of the best gastroenterology clinics in the country, had major thoracic surgery, and will need life time surveillance and treatment....

but this is so infrequent that i always thougt it was unrelated. Medications- not really, i have tried pentasa (dont thnk it worked) and now am trying Xifaxan which some days i think helps and others not. Thanks for the comment on the temperature-- i was thinking that a consistentely low temp meant something about the immune system, but i didnt know what. i wonder if its significant that both you and i have low temps. it wasnt long ago that i did avg a higher 98.6-type temp.

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