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

I’ve had a debilitating intestinal condition enough to get me hospitalized for 15 years. The diagnosis has varied from Ulcerative Colitis to Crohns to IBS to Colitus. The symptoms started after coming back from Bolivia as an exchange student in 1974. The very fact that the diagnosis varied from doctor to doctor and even within [...]

Intro: I am a longtime UC’er-a lifer,if you will- diagnosed at 15(had symptoms/issues as far back as I can remember), I’m 43, female and just finished another allergy(delayed allergic reaction) to Humira. My Colitis Story: So here it is… the crossroads again. As you can see from my med. list, I’ve pretty much been through [...]

Dear  Adam, Indeed, these skin manifestations can arise in patients treated with biological therapies. Although they are rare, they may in some cases,  lead to cessation of therapy in patient with refractory dermatological treatment. The best I can suggest you is to see an expert dermatologist who is used to deal with these manifestations and [...]

Hey Everyone, good evening, hi everybody, my name is Adam, and we have a few videos like this, but I wanted to show you what I’m having for dinner tonight just in case you have what I got which is a disease called Ulcerative Colitis. I follow a diet, its real basic, nothing crazy, its [...]

Hey Colitis People, I had an interesting office visit today with a Gastroenterologist office in San Mateo California.  I happened to be in the office for something work related and I asked the gastro doctors secretary some questions about the common protocol for their patients with IBD and specifically their colitis patients. She told me [...]

Below is a posting from an anonymous person who as you can see has taken many many medications for ulcerative colitis.  I thought it might be helpful for some other UC patients to see how it is not always easy to go from being diagnosed to finding a solution that works for you.  Thanks for [...]

When I see blood in my poop, that for me means ulcerative colitis.  And like most good things, the 8 months of pretty much symptom free living has finally come to a close.  Good old colitis man seems to have found a way to make it back into the old colon. But, before I go [...]

I once whipped that out on a GI specialist that I had gone to see for a second opinion.  She responded : “You must know a lot about ulcerative colitis if you know about that”.  I said: “Yeah, I am geek.   I know about the worm study too.”  I had gone for a second opinion [...]

Some More Details on Humira: I was cleaning out the medicine cabinet today, and besides throwing out some old bottles of prednisone, azathioprine, and hydrocodine, I came across the “Drug Counseling Information” for Humira.  This counseling came with the monthly overnight shipment of Humira from the drug company that was contracted to sell it to [...]

First of all, thank you for coming to this website.  I really enjoy receiving emails and messages from the wide range of people who visit these posts. Back in January of 2009 I was started on Remicade.  This is a drug which you take via an infusion, and it is approved by the FDA for [...]