Thursday, January 24, 2013

My medicines

When I first got diagnosed with Chrons and Ulcerative colitis, they put me on a series of medications. First, they started me on Asacol. (2 twice a day).
Then they added on Entocourt (6mg, once a day). After they realized that the asacol was not working, they put me on Pentasa(3 twice a day), along with the entocourt, but increased it to 9mg a day. That still was not working. They then tried me on Apriso(4, 0.375 twice a day), with Prednisone added. (Yes, Prednisone does make you gain weight, and it does give you chipmunk cheeks and a distended belly.) After all of this and it still had not gotten me close to remission, they decided to put me on Remicade(every 6 weeks) with Methotrexate Injections( once every week). I switched to an adult GI doctor recently and he has put me back on the Pentasa twice a day with the Entocourt. This is where I am at currently, minus the Methotrexate and I am still not in remission.
Hopefully, we are getting closer! It has been a long, stressful, and difficult path dealing with all of this, but I've got faith that I'll get into remission soon.

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