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

I’m Susan.  Both my husband and son have inflammatory bowel disease. My husband has Crohn’s disease which was diagnosed when he was a teenager. They thought his initial attack was appendicitis and when they operated, saw it was Crohn’s and did a resection at that time. When our first child of four was a toddler, [...]

Introduction: It’s been about seven weeks since I have been diagnosed. At the time my doctor said it’s probably UC, but didn’t rule out Crohn’s 100%. My Colitis Experience: My health has been getting better, especially for the past two weeks. I have been taking Lialda at the highest dose, and I started tapering off [...]

My Background: I am 52 year old female, diagnosed with Crohn’s 33 yrs ago, went through the hospitalizations, prednisone, and other meds for 3 yrs. Very blessed to have had long remissions, and on no meds for over 10 yrs. Suddenly 3 mo. ago had terrible abdominal pain. No diahrrhea, but constipation. Cat scan shows [...]

Any Advice, my friends seem to have disappeared.

In the past few months, there has been a bombardment in news flashes and media talk about the connections between Crohns disease/Ulcerative Colitis and acne medications.  So, I thought I would do some research to try to figure out what the hype is all about. I myself have not tried Accutane, but I have several [...]

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 [...]

Hello, My name is Reid and I have Crohn’s disease. I was invited by Adam to write this blog post about what I’m doing these days and how this community can get involved with something that can positively impact a lot of people around the world. I am working on my first documentary about people [...]

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 [...]

So after many months waiting and trying to get funding and paperwork ready for surgery…. it’s finally come together.  I haven’t been writing much because things have basically been the same – cramps, blood, joint pain, etc. But as of today, May 5, 2010 I am now ready to schedule the J-Pouch surgery and colectomy [...]

…when it’s not really definite! So , I got to see a consultant gastroenterologist last week. A very pleasant young man. He said I had Inflammatory Bowel Disease, but it was difficult to diagnose whether it was Colitis or Crohn’s, but because of some of my other symptoms, i.e. mouth ulcers, joint aches etc, he [...]

okay, today is March 8, 2010 and I have now added another drug to my list of medications I’ve taken, as well as another drug they’ll be giving me in the coming months. I thought I would type out a list of all my drugs to better give an idea of what some people might [...]