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

Hey UC’ers, I wanted to get off to everyone an update with regards to how things are going for me. Last time I shared a story, my ulcerative colitis symptoms were starting to get quite out of control with all sorts of bathroom breaks, filled with soft messy bloody poops. That’s right, full blown colitis [...]

Hello fellow colitis people. Quick update on me…still flarin’ big time…veered away from SCD for a little while seeing I was just getting more ill and losing a ton of weight. I had to…but I have the intention of going back if and when I ever heal up. I’ll give it another whirl if that [...]

My daughter was born 3 weeks early but had no complications to speak of. She was almost exclusively breast fed with some minor intro to formula but around 4 or 5months of age, we notices some strands of blood in her poopy diaper. Upon seeing the Pediatrician, we were advised that it was probably a [...]

I was Diagnosed with UC 5 years ago. I work at sea on old wooden boats and was a week away from land when the symptoms that we all are familiar with started. Sailing is very physically demanding and as the week went on, I couldn’t eat, had severe stomach ache and was passing basically [...]

This past weekend was a long weekend in Canada called the Civic Holiday! So summer + a long weekend = a road trip! Kind of a no-brainer! Well, if this long weekend fell last month I wouldn’t have even thought about going away! My UC symptoms were so bad, so out of control that I wouldn’t want to [...]

Hello! Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes……………… First off, I don’t have UC myself. It is my girlfriend who has recently been diagnosed with it. My main reason for posting here is to try and get some information and to make myself feel better! I have been [...]

I was diagnosed with UC about 6 months ago. As I caught this really bad virus, I started having diarrhea and bleeding. It had probably started one and a half years ago when I started having episodes of diarhhea (lasting 1-2 months) with severe bloating and gasses. I just assumed it was some virus and [...]

The UC disease is one which makes its sufferers ask all kinds of questions.  This is one that most everyone asks themselves from time to time.  How long will the bleeding go on for with UC?  It’s a great question.  A few weeks ago I received an email from a newly diagnosed ulcerative colitis patient [...]

If you have ulcerative colitis, you very well may have a whole bunch of colitis flares along the way(but don’t you worry). After being diagnosed with UC a almost two years ago, I have now learned that a colitis flare might come up from time to time.(Even when I thought I had found the save [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]