Ulcerative Colitis – Colitis Symptoms, Colitis Diet, Colitis Information

Hey UC’ers, I wanted to take a quick moment and share some news regarding a new medication called Simponi that was just recently cleared for the treatment of Ulcerative Colitis.  Just yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration, which is the “governing board” in the United States gave its formal approval for this medication. What is [...]

Hey UC’ers, After doing my usual research on PubMed (awesome awesome resource BTW!), there are several articles a whole bunch of you will gain a whole bunch from reading.  (The articles are listed below and include the links so you can read up more on the specific studies.) #1 Thiopurines in inflammatory bowel disease revisited [...]

Some of you may know me pretty well by now.  After all, the site is over 3 years old now….can you believe that. But, I wanted to give some updates as to how and what I’m up to lately.  (For anybody who is visiting iHaveUC for the first time right now…well, the site is all [...]

I’m sure some of you are getting ready to paint up some eggs, I can’t be the only one doing that today right? To everyeone who’s sent a happy Easter email to me over the past few days, thank you so much.  I wish everyone of you who’s in the celebrating mood (or at least [...]

Today has not been a good day. I am out of all of my medicine and sat down having a pity party I guess you could say and decided to write a poem. Feel free to share it. :} “Faith, Patience and A Cure” By: Ashley L. Hozey I woke up one day in horrible [...]

Meet LaNae: I’m a newbie. My symptoms started in Dec 2011. I had a sigmoidoscopy in March 2012 and was diagnosed with UC. Some more about me: I was always a healthy kid. Active, into sports, got my pilots license right out of high school……… haha random. Worked at a hardware store and then became [...]

Hey UC’ers, Katryna, who’s written several colitis stories before (I never knew she was a song writer too!!) recently posted up this classic song with her own UC twist yesterday on the ihaveuc facebook group page, and I asked her (and she said heck yeah) if it would be alright to share with the rest [...]

Hey UC’ers: The year 2012 is definitely not finished yet, but we’re certainly getting close.  And, I wanted to go back into the archives and pull out some links to some stories that we’ve ran on the website over the past several months.  Heck, there might even be a story below from 2011… But the [...]

Hey UC’ers, FOR EVERYONE who may have, has had, or still has the ulcerative colitis disease we all know so well…there is some super great news. UC’ers can still crank out a wicked amount of pullups every once in a while. Some of you may remember a few weeks back when a super informal, fun/friendly [...]

Hey UC’ers, I know alot of you have questions/concerns/interest in fecal transplants. So in the near future there is going to be a Q&A session/post with someone who knows a ton about this stuff. That’s right…I’m talking about a doctor who puts poop up your you know what. If you have any specific or general questions and would like to get them answered, fill out the questionnaire – click here!