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

Introduction: I am a 21 year old male here in the States, finishing up my last semester here at college. now THIS. 4 weeks later: am I finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel? My Colitis Experience (With Prednisone) I have been healthy my entire life. But that all changed 4 weeks [...]

Intro: This is my 5th year of living with UC. In the last 3-4 years, I read & tried numerous different remedies that worked for others. I experienced a couple of remissions with each new one lasting longer than the previous one. Will the next one be long term? Prednisone or Prednisolone Steroids and Calcium [...]

I’ve been taking steroids for so long that my body depends on them. When I wean off them, its always trouble. My doctor’s are finally thinking surgery is the best option.

This is Who I Am: I am a 42 year old female who was diagnosed with UC about a year and 1/2 ago. It has been an ongoing struggle and I can honestly say I have not been in remission for the entire time, until I recently started Prednisone. And Here’s My Colitis Story: When [...]

Help Me Get off Prednisone, I am having a hard time getting of this colitis medication. Im a 32 year old male and I can’t seem to get off prednisone steroids.  I’ve had Ulcerative Colitis for about 13 years and I’ve been on just about every medication there is.  I don’t think i have ever [...]

Background Info: I’m Jamie, I’m 17 and from Ireland. I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis on September 6th 2011, though my first major flare started in late January 2011, but I wasn’t hospitalized (apart from a trip to the emergency room on June 7th) until September 6th, that’s when the crapstorm began… My Story: It’s [...]

Prednisone Survey Results from 42 participants in the UC Prednisone Survey. Thank you very much to everyone from the Facebook IHAVEUC group who responded to this survey and participated.  As many of us have realized, taking prednisone/prednisolone for the treatment of Ulcerative Colitis Symptoms is quite common.  I had no idea though how many of [...]

My Ulcerative Colitis Story: Hi Everyone! This is my first post and wanted to get some helpful advice. I was recently diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis a couple weeks ago and started Colazal with no improvement. My doctor now wants me to start Prednisone but I am terrified to get the physical side effects. I am [...]

Update on my Ulcerative Colitis: Kate here, I posted a few months ago when I was lonely and depressed about my new diagnoses, and I’m posting again because I am once again depressed… But for a different reason. I have been able to eat anything I want because of the miracle that is Lialda, however, [...]

I am 20, and was just recently diagnosed with ulcerative colitis about a month and a half ago although I’ve been having symptoms since November 2010. I went to see my doctor after a week of bleeding, but all he had to say was that it was very common and to come back if it [...]

I’ve had UC, theoretically speaking, since I was 4 years old, I was finally diagnosed with it after spending months in and out of the hospital (mostly in), countless drug cocktails orally and intravenously to the point where my veins all collapsed (not so much fun), ridiculous procedures that did nothing but almost kill me [...]