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Hi Everybody, I’m Adam. With the new year among us all, I hope that 2012 can be the best year yet in terms of this website helping others with information. AND I really hope this posting helps out ALOT of people, myself included. I know that thousands of people a week are wondering questions such as: Should I or Shouldn’t I get surgery? What… Read More »If You’ve Already Had Colitis Surgery, Please Help Out
Introduction: I’m the husband of a pregnant girl with UC. Trying SCD with some success, but still having pain and blood even though stools have hardened. please help. My Pregnant Wife’s Ulcerative Colitis I’m pretty desperate here. My wife is 15 weeks pregnant and in what would SEEM to be the tail end of one of her worst flares ever. We think it was brought… Read More »Please Help – Using SCD But Still Have Pain and Blood
I Have Ulcerative Colitis… I am in my 7th week of pregnancy with my second child with active ulcerative colitis. Is anyone out there currently in this situation? I was on everything you could list for UC. Most recently I was on Humira and Imuran. Zofran for nausea and Bentyl for spasms. Nothing worked. I was considering surgery when I found out I was pregnant… Read More »Pregnant with UC, What Now?
My name is Shawna, I am 31 years old. I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis a year ago. I started noticing I was having a problem with diarrhea a few times a day, after about a week of this I started seeing blood. About a month later I went to the doctor and was told to just take pepto bismol. I did that and nothing… Read More »Ulcerative Colitis-I Wouldn’t Wish this Disease Upon Anyone!
Introduction: I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis in 1982 about five months into a pregnancy. It was a nightmare situation with lots of violent bowel movements and bleeding. I wanted to die. I was put on prednisone -pretty scary during a pregnancy! The good news is that I did not die , and that our daughter was born without any defects. After two years I… Read More »Hanging In There – Question About Imuran