The Medical Protocol – Here are some sample drugs, go ahead and try them
If am wondering if anyone has a theory on why doctors prescribe the drugs they do after or before someone is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis?
Has anyone reading this blog attended gastroenterology school and been taught the “best practices” for treating a new UC patient?
If so, please, please respond.
If you are a patient, please feel free to answer this question that I have been struggling with for about 5 months now.
Maybe we can all get to the bottom of this with the help of the entire world.
Thanks,
Adam, wait a minute I think I’m feeling an earthquake
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i've got uc. I had one colonoscopy, 3 sigmoidoscopies, and 3 Remicade infusions, tons of prednisone, Humira, Colazal, Asacol, Sulfasalazine and some other stuff. But I'm doing pretty good and drug free and my colon is making some pretty hard craps lately.
I have been using an extreme diet makeover to treat my disease, actually its not too crazy.
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March 11, 2010 at 12:17 pm
The type of antibiotic prescribed by a general practitioner doctor is VERY important if you have UC. Since UC essentially wipes out the bacteria in your colon, taking antibiotics can make your condition worse, since they are also wiping out bacteria.
Some antibiotics are hard for the colon to handle – for any number of reasons. After I got diagnosed, my GI doctor suggested to me a couple of doctors to consider switching to that work in conjunction with him and have experience treating UC patients. There’s been a couple of times I’ve had to go to the ER and I always STRESS to the ER doctor that I have ulcerative colitis and I have to be careful of the antibiotics I take. A couple of those times, the doctor prescribed the wrong kind of antibiotic and my UC symptoms flared like crazy – so I’d have to go to my GI doctor and take more rounds of steroids and other medications to get my UC under control.
Some of the antibiotics that seem to work well with UC patients (my doctor has told me, and I’ve taken with little to no adverse affects) is Bactrim, the Z-pack, Amoxicillin, Cipro, and Doxycycline.