Hi,
My daughter is on Imuran for 3 weeks, and last week started to complaint on severe upper back pains and upper abdominal pains (on top of more regular symptoms that we noticed as fatigue, nausea etc...). At the beginning we thought of constipation as the root cause, but in fact she had few bowel movements since then, but pain remained or kept getting worse. Stopped for 1 day Imuran, symptoms disappeared...Contacted GI - since were concerned about Pancreatitis, run immediately blood test - and all normal, including Pancreas enzymes.
GI suggested to restore Imuran and if needed focus on preventing constipation (even though - not clear the relation, since after stopping imuran for 1 night and having the 'same' constipation - all disappeared...).
What are your thoughts? Was thinking on splitting the dose twice daily (50Mg each) and monitor again to give Imuran another shot
Thx!
My daughter is on Imuran for 3 weeks, and last week started to complaint on severe upper back pains and upper abdominal pains (on top of more regular symptoms that we noticed as fatigue, nausea etc...). At the beginning we thought of constipation as the root cause, but in fact she had few bowel movements since then, but pain remained or kept getting worse. Stopped for 1 day Imuran, symptoms disappeared...Contacted GI - since were concerned about Pancreatitis, run immediately blood test - and all normal, including Pancreas enzymes.
GI suggested to restore Imuran and if needed focus on preventing constipation (even though - not clear the relation, since after stopping imuran for 1 night and having the 'same' constipation - all disappeared...).
What are your thoughts? Was thinking on splitting the dose twice daily (50Mg each) and monitor again to give Imuran another shot
Thx!