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

Introduction: 36 year old female from New Zealand. Love sports although not as active as i should be – Not due to health just lazy Recently married My Colitis Experience So Far: Hi all, Firstly, what a great website. Thank you for setting this up and keeping it running!! I live in a very small [...]

Well, I’ve had two colonoscopy exams this year and they are still showing mild to moderate UC up to about 25cm. I have been getting remicade infusions for four years now so my Doc decided to send me up to the Melissa L Posner Institute for Digestive Health and Liver disease at Mercy Hospital in [...]

So… I made it the 3 weeks to my colonoscopy. I was getting progressively sicker day by day. More D and more B. My stomach hurt like crazy. For me, I have to drink clear liquids for 3 days before the prep… so I think that helped my colon a little (gave it a little [...]

Normally when I write about a “double day” this means a double work-out day – a morning ride on the cyclo-cross bike and an afternoon ride on my road bike. But this was not the case on Tuesday. Nope on this day, “double day” meant: endoscopy and colonoscopy… Yes the dreaded double procedure. Purpose of [...]

What an awesome page. Adam, you are really providing an awesome service to the “IBD Community”! I just checked “I might have UC, not sure yet” because my official diagnosis is Crohn’s disease, although my symptoms are that of UC and I’m being treated like I have UC. When I had my colonoscopy, there appeared [...]

I was diagnosed late 2008 by an internist in a town close to home. My bleeding, frequency kept getting worse. He continuously kept switching my “preventative” meds. If I saw the slightest bit of improvement I would think hopefully “ok now I will get better”…only to get worse again. I quickly read a few books [...]

Hi, my name is Jamie.  Adam has asked me to tell about my battle with UC/Crohn’s. I am a 27 year old, female, that as a result of her UC/Crohn’s, has an ileostomy and proudly wears a bag. My story will probably be a long one, so I will break it up into separate posts so [...]

Hi everyone, my name is Sara, and my mom has just been diagnosed with UC. She had a colonoscopy 2 weeks ago, and she was put on Asacol that same day. Things have gotten really bad since that day and now she can’t even keep the soup from the intro diet in her. She has [...]

First off: for those people who have been dealing with UC for years, allow me to give you a standing “O” (or in my case a sitting, grunting AAAaahhh). I was diagnosed with UC this week and it has been the most painful, gut wrenching, fatigue inducing experience of my whole life. I’m starting to [...]

From the very beginning, I think everyone who is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis wants to find out how to get rid of the symptoms and get back to a normal life, and FAST.  And who wouldn’t?  Especially after you have been dealing with the symptoms for probably a long time and seeing your quality of [...]

And what did our survey say…………..NOPERS! Now time to play a game, it’s called ask yourself some questions, and then come up with your answers. I’ll go first: Question 1: Do you have any good friends with ulcerative colitis? My Answer: Nope Question 2: Did you freak out when they put the IV in your [...]