Ulcerative Colitis Stories – Colitis Symptoms, Colitis Diet, Colitis Information

Introduction: I am 68 years old. I have a permanent ileostomy due to severe UC. I also have a daughter who suffered with UC for 12 years before having a colectomy with j-pouch. How Colitis Surgery Saved My Life I suffered with undiagnosed UC for eight years. I had many colonoscopies with biopsies and no [...]

Introduction: Father of 4 and husband of one awesome lady. Web developer / programmer with lots of life to live and doesn’t need UC cramping my style. 43 years old and had IBS since college and diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis in 2001. Joint Pain Remedies for Colitis: I’ve been looking for a solution to my [...]

Peppermint Tea (just plain or with honey) Really helps because it is relaxing, and helps keep symptoms calm. I am not running to the bathroom all the time. I have been on medications for very bad symptoms however its been awhile since I’ve last had to run to them. Initially I suffered from bloody lose [...]

Have you ever had “STRANGE” symptoms such as bloody poop and crazy amounts of bloating, but put off going to the doctor…Well Cassandra did just that for several months, but after a few years, she is moving forward again and her amazing story if turning positive once again!

Introduction: Hey everyone, I’m Trent and I had colon surgery or Ileoanal Anastomosis if you want to get all the medical terms involved, well its been one month and I would like to share with you about how I have been doing. Also I would like to say thanks Adam for the awesome comment you [...]

Hello guys, my name is Mohammad and I have ulcerative colitis. My Super Happy Ulcerative Colitis Story: My story is quite long but I will write it anyway. I got diagnosed with ulcerative colitis on January 2010. I was given the usual asacol/mesalazine with tapering off of the prednisolone. Within a few days after I [...]

Like most of the stories I’ve read here, I’ve experienced them. I’ve had Ulcerative Colitis for 6 years now and have tried everything under the sun. To complicate things, I had my gall bladder removed 2 years ago. I hated not being able to leave my house. A living prisoner. There is GOOD NEWS: My [...]

Lialda as an Ulcerative Colitis Treatment: I was diagnosed with moderate UC in late 2007. I was put on Lialda, took it for over a year…this was before they had released the (recent) study saying that it keeps folks in remission and is perfectly safe to do so. I fully believe that Lialda cured my [...]

My story is a bit crazy. Lets begin in October of 2009. I work for an Engineering company and was asked to travel to California for business for a 36 hour trip. I was so excited that I began to get very stressed about the whole trip since it was my first chance to prove [...]

I never thought I would be making an ulcerative colitis video from the scene of the crime, or you might call the place where I used to bleed while taking a poop. But today is a special day and I wanted to roll the camera from my bathroom toilet seat.  Also, I’ve never shot a [...]

So I just had my second of three surgeries on June 1 and I am now 1 step closer to being “back to normal.” Here are the details of Curtis’s 2nd Colon surgery: My second surgery was on June 1, 2011. This surgery the doctors went in using the DaVinci Robot to construct a “J [...]