Hey I'm 18 years old I found out less than a month ago I have ulcerative colitis. After spending a month complaining of blood in my stools and pain I headed off to the doctors only to be told "its a cut causing the blood" nothing to worry about. They said the cause of diarrhoea will just be a tummy bug that will pass. It didn't pass, my bowel movements kept getting worse so did the pain. So off I went back to the doctors, this time around they thought it was a parasite. After stool tests came back clear but blood tests didn't I had my first colonoscopy which was originally just meant to be a flexi sigmoidoscopy. The nurse tired to convince me to have this with no sedation. There was no way anyone was putting anything up there with me wide awake so I insisted on having sedation, which luckily I did because the doctor ended up preforming a colonoscopy. He later said I really must have been going over ten times a day because I didn't have the usual laxatives they give you to take the day before.
They put me on Pentasa 8 pills a day, which didn't help if anything made me feel worse. I am currently still on the Pentasa and 20 mg of Prednisone. I'm currently feeling a wee bit funny I guess you could say on the Prednisone but my bowel movements are definitely decreasing but the other side effects aren't that much fun. I've been getting quite a bit of joint pain, trouble sleeping, shaky hands. Not sure how long I will be on the Prednisone for but hopefully not much longer.
I'm so glad to have found this forum and know I'm not alone!
They put me on Pentasa 8 pills a day, which didn't help if anything made me feel worse. I am currently still on the Pentasa and 20 mg of Prednisone. I'm currently feeling a wee bit funny I guess you could say on the Prednisone but my bowel movements are definitely decreasing but the other side effects aren't that much fun. I've been getting quite a bit of joint pain, trouble sleeping, shaky hands. Not sure how long I will be on the Prednisone for but hopefully not much longer.
I'm so glad to have found this forum and know I'm not alone!