New GI - new routine!

[hippie4lyfe]

Omg I am so happy I decided to see someone new. I was weaning off of pred 2.5mg every other day, 4g of pentasa a day, and 75mg 6-mp.

I told him I still had serious fatigue and dizziness to the point that it was disabling and I was afraid I would collapse and the acne is bad too.

He told me to stay on 6-mp and drop the rest. OMG I can completely get off of pentasa and pred. Hooray.

I am scared about side effects from withdrawing but he said the body produces 5mg naturally or something so its fine to get off pred completely and he said that I should be fine going completely off pentasa.

Anyone go completely off pentasa cold turkey? Was everything ok?

 

[My Butt Hurts]

I've gone off of two medications that are very similar to pentasa, asacol and sulfasalazine. There are no problems going off of most meds cold turkey, but prednisone does have to be weaned.

 

[hippie4lyfe]

cool good to hear, the pred i have been withdrawing for months but im at 2.5mg every other day so he advised to drop it.

 

[Creepy Lurker]

cool good to hear, the pred i have been withdrawing for months but im at 2.5mg every other day so he advised to drop it.

That's pretty much like taking 1mg a day, which is a safe point to stop completely.

I'm still stuck on 5mg

 

[hippie4lyfe]

well creepy can u cut to every other day? pred is evil get off asap!

i dropped pentasa last night and had gas all night long and 2 big D's this morning, I don't know if it is related to kicking pentasa to the curb or not.