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my gastro prescribed asacol...800 mg 2 tabs twice daily. I looked at the drug pamphlet and I see that it can affect liver enzymes. I dont need that since I already have mildly abnormal values. I called my gastro to tell him my concern and he said it would not hurt me. I am supposed to be on them indefinitely. I also take 5 mg prednisone for my r/a. Just wondering how this will affect the liver. I know I am not on the higher side of the doses given but still...

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?

Now some start a lot lower than me but I have to start a 70 mg then decrease by 10 mg every three days until it stops. Now if I get down to 30 mg and the bleeding starts I jump back to about 50 or 60 mg and start again until I'm off but always jump way up if it restarts. The idea is to get off the steroids asap but make sure the bleeding is stopped. The other thing is to increase the Asacol right away to get the UC under control and adjust her dosage to manage it.

I started taking Asacol HD about one week ago. I noticed this morning that I had 3 whole pills in my stool. One pill looked like it was open on one side, but had something white still in it. Not sure about the others. Is this normal to see whole pills in stool, and to see three at one time?

Has anyone tried Lialda? Does it perform any better than Asacol? How much more is your co-pay for Lialda than Asacol. I want to ask my doc to make a switch.

s disease for at least 2-3 years... I am currently taking ASACOL HD 800mg 2 tabs twice a day.. i also have ulcerated colitis... I have ocasional diarrhea nothing to bad. I just had blood work done and everything was nearly perfect except my globulin was 3.7 high... max is 3.5.... liver functions were completely normal?

Hello. Since April 2011, I have had major issues concerning my digestive tract. Well, I consider them major since I didn't really have this stuff happen to me prior. I began to go to the bathroom over 12 times a day, and all of those times was bloody/mucus. I had a lot of pain, and waited about 1 month before I went to see a doctor. I have had 3 colonoscopies since April. I was having pain on my right side above my belly button, so the dr. thought it was Crohn's.

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.

Under my ear is very tender to touch, no swollen lymph nodes, and the whole way down my neck and into my shoulder. I took a Motrin 800 mg earlier and layed down a heating pad, the pain is gone now. If this was some type of neuralgia do you think the Motrin would have helped? Could this be TMJ? Thanks again. BTW, you seem like a very caring person helping Madi the way you did on the previous post. Kind hearted, very nice.

i was recently told by my doctor, after a blood test that my thyroid level is 800. he has now prescribed Levothyroxin 50 mcg. i am now getting headaches on my left side of my head by my temple. i rarely get headaches, but since this new medicine i have had this headache for a week now.

Me! 800 mg a day that I still take daily in addition to my prenatal. I suffered a missed miscarriage last yr so my OB said it couldn't hurt. But I actually started 400 mg before pregnancy, then the 800 afterwards.

i was prescribed asacol 2x 400mg, 3 times a day for two weeks. after this time i was also diagnosed with CKD at stage 3a with a GFR of 53 and a creatinine clearance of 87.14ml/min. i took asacol again for one month at a reduced rate of 1x 400mg, 3 times a day (3-4 tablets recommended for prevention of relapse). then i stopped taking it for 2 months. i took asacol again at 1x400mg, 2 times a day for 2 months.

Thanks you gals! I was on asacol, and now the doctors have me on delzicol (3 doses of 1600 mg a day) and 60 mg of prednisone and I'm starting to see improvement! I tried a bland diet and no matter what I ate it just seemed to get worse. They were debating on starting me on remicade, but I think they dismissed that since I'm doing better with the medicine change. Still in the hospital, but it sounds like I'll be getting out in the next couple of days.

My Dr. prescribed 5 mg plus I take a multivitamin with 0.4 mg, so I guess all together I'm taking 5.4 mg. I think 400 mg is way too high. Perhaps it's supposed to be 4 mg??

CalGal, Final diagnosis of colonoscopy 1) Ileum biopsy: small intestine mucosa w no significant histopathologic findings. 2) Random colon biopsy: colonic mucosa w mild chronic inflammation of the lamina propria. Microscopic description said everything was normal except for "there are areas w a mild increase in stromal inflammatory cells, predominately lymphocytes. Intraepithelial inflammatory cells are not increased".

im not sure but ive been in and out of the hospital like 8 days in 2 weeks and it took 2 colon oskopies and 2 endonoscopies to figure taht out and then they found the ilius that is so groos ive always thought i had a slow moving digestive system but they put me on asacol but i already take 200mg of trazadone 20 mg of lexapro 1000 mg of depakote clonopin and vicodinn for my pain im also bi polar with a seizure disorder so my life really sux at 26 im on so many meds i cant even always remmember

I took 7 mcg and 800 mg of ribavirin DAILY for a year in 1999-2000. I have never been the same and would be interested in talking to a Dr who knows about the possible long term side effects of this treatment. I did clear the virus.

Out of curiosity, today I called my GI who also treats for Hep C and he also said my daily riba dose would be 800 mg because of my weight. Both doctors stated that the 800 mg dosage it is strictly because of my weight and no other reason. I treated in 2008 with a different doctor, and I weighed the same 115 lbs, and took 1000 mg of riba per day (with pegasys, no PI). I treated for 16 weeks (when I reached UND) and I did not take any rescue drugs (my hgb went from 14.5 pre tx, to 12.0, 10.

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