Thanks so much for responding. I am taking Asacol for the Crohn's disease.
I take 400mg - 6 tabs daily.
I have IBS and am bleeding rectally even when I don't have a bowel movement. It is bright red in the morning and darker as the day moves on and can give me cramps.
s but after almost two years my Dr. changed the DX to IBS due to all the biopsies coming back negative. I have never had any blood tests to confirm or deny Crohn's. I respond very well to oral and IV steroids, I was on a 160mg/day pred dose and switched to 9mg/day budesonide. The flagyl and cipro failed to do anything and no appreciable difference was noted from Asacol.
So here's my question: Is is possible to be mis-diagnosed with IBS while actually having Crohn's.
I have lupus and deal with diarrhea everyday. I take an herb that has been a tremendous blessing. It's called Slippery Elm. It coats he entire digestive tract. I take one/daily as a maintance. But on occasion, the symptoms are overwhelming. I'll take (2) several times a day for those stubborn flare-ups.
My heart really goes out to you as I know how this can alter a person's life. I'm not familiar with the medicine you spoke of.
What makes you want to switch...curious.
I also have a dull ache in the right hand side which is now creeping up into my Right Kidney........It took a while before I was diagnosed with Crohns (since May 2008), as all my blood test results and scans were coming back normal, which was so frustrating, as, I also was being treated for IBS which I knew it wasn't as I have had IBS for 10 years!
When u get the answer to this question please let me know I have had the same situation. I was once told that it is because of the bowels being infected and have actually taken antibiotics for 30 days to help correct problem with bowels, they were bactrim 500 3x day and flaygyl 500 4x day.....this helped for about a few months then right back to the same ol same ol......
I have noticed that my asacol is not breaking down and is being passed in my stool! Is their a reason for this? What can/should I do?
Thanks for the info...I was getting too anxious for the Asacol to work as this is day 5. I was worried that it could be Crohns Disease as My Brother died from Crohns. My Dr. said my Blood Markers did not show for Crohns...however, I am waiting on test results for Celiac. I appreciate your time, Thank You.
For the last 5 years I've been having severe abdominal attacks for a better word for it. It came within a half to one hour of eating and usually does. I get real loud bowel sounds on my left side of my abdomen. Then cramping starts and I feel like I'm going to have diarrhea. Before I get the the restroom my lips start going numb, my face feels hot and then depending on the outcome I either pass out on the toilet or I'm doubled over in gut wrenching pain.
I have a NEW G.I. doc who keeps referring me to a colonoscopy and an MRCP before she decides to do anything but I've had a flare-up of UC for a month and need some relief. Today I saw a whole Asacol HD tablet excreted and the G.I.doc said "that's ok--it's still absorbed." Ok--so now I must be reasonable and ask a question as how is it absorbed when NONE OF IT--repeat, NONE OF IT---is degraded at all? This woman doesn't get it. Anyway, what should I do now?
So I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis just about two years ago and I'm 9 weeks 1 day today, and I've noticed my symptoms of uc are flaring up again, even with being on asacol hd. This poses an issue, because I need to eat healthy for baby. Normally I can adjust what I eat and everything balances out after a few days, but with the pregnancy going on not much of anything sounds good, especially uc safe foods.
My GP referred me to a gastroenterologist who found no conclusive causes for my symptoms after checking blood work and a stool culture. Continued to trudge through my daily routines assuming the added responsibility of motherhood was the cause of my sub-par feeling. Fast forward a few years after my GP finding no reasons for my lack of fatigue just tried to make do...
I have had gastrointestinal issues for years...For many years I had experienced constipation and extreme bloating. Never thought anything on it because I was in college and my diet was pretty much college food. For years it was pretty much either diarrhea or constipation never the in between and I was so bloated that I looked pregnant at times. The past two years, I started to have gastric issues. I would eat very little and become nauseas and sooner or later throw up.
He was switched from Asacol to Pentasa when his liver enzymes were slightly elevated. He was on a steroid for the first 2 years after he was diagnosed. He hasn't been on a steroid since 2006, when he was diagnosed with Diabetes. The Steroids are more for the flares, the Pentasa is used more as a maintenance drug. He is also on Purinethol, which is chemotherapy agent, to help decrease abnormal growths. Good luck.
Had coloscopy in August-showed some mild inflammation in ilieum and rectal area-was put on Asacol. Asacol helped the rectal pain but RLQ pain continued. Went back to ED in Nov for severe RLQ pain. CT and bloodwork normal. I had changed from Asacol to Pentasa the week before and the rectal pain had come back-significant burning pain. Went to another doctor and had more bloodwork-borderline IBD tests. Went off Pentasa for a few days in Dec and had severe RLQ pain and right hand pain.
Hi! I've had UC now for around 7yrs with very little problems. I had rectal bleeding as little as once a year, this has changed recently and has increased to a few times a month. I'm also on asacol tablets. The posts ive read on here describe their UC pain as crampy and in localised areas. I seem to be experiencing dull achie feeling in my lower abdimon, almost like period pains and it can sometimes progress further up my abdimon. My question is, does anyone else experience similar pain?
I found a new doctor who is supposed to be the best in my state and he said he was 99% sure it was colitis and put me on asacol. The medicine worked for 10 months and has now stopped working. I was hospitailized for 5 days and he proformed a coloscopy, endoscopy and both were inconclusive. He now say I do not have Colitis. I also did a camera pill and am waiting on the results. I can't handle being told again that the doctors have no idea!!!!
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