Hi everyone!
Brief history: Diagnosed with Crohn's Colitis nearly four years ago. After a bit of tinkering with meds I was well controlled on a combination of Mezavant and Azathioprine for two and a half years. I stopped the Mezavant (with GI's agreement) about 9 months ago due to fatigue and muscle aches and this helped me feel better.
Unfortunately, after 6 months just on the Aza my symptoms (mainly rectal) gradually returned. Pentasa supps helped a lttle bit.
I started Salofalk granules eight and a half weeks ago and although things have slowly improved I am still not back to my 'normal'. I just don't know whether to carry on and hope that the improvements will keep slowly heading towards remission, or whether to ask for a blast of prednisolone to knock it on the head (which was what I needed first time round, although I wasn't on the Aza then).
I can't increase the Aza as my lymphocytes are already pretty low (around 0.7).
So I guess this is a "What would you do?" question for anyone that might be able to help.
Thanks
Nitty
Brief history: Diagnosed with Crohn's Colitis nearly four years ago. After a bit of tinkering with meds I was well controlled on a combination of Mezavant and Azathioprine for two and a half years. I stopped the Mezavant (with GI's agreement) about 9 months ago due to fatigue and muscle aches and this helped me feel better.
Unfortunately, after 6 months just on the Aza my symptoms (mainly rectal) gradually returned. Pentasa supps helped a lttle bit.
I started Salofalk granules eight and a half weeks ago and although things have slowly improved I am still not back to my 'normal'. I just don't know whether to carry on and hope that the improvements will keep slowly heading towards remission, or whether to ask for a blast of prednisolone to knock it on the head (which was what I needed first time round, although I wasn't on the Aza then).
I can't increase the Aza as my lymphocytes are already pretty low (around 0.7).
So I guess this is a "What would you do?" question for anyone that might be able to help.
Thanks
Nitty