MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

... as an add on to my last posting, I've read scientific articles pro & con over the years regarding kidney stones being calcium intake caused. My own Dad's stones could well have been of the uric acid type as he was a gout sufferer & they often get these type of stones. He died in 1983 so ...

... so many things contribute to bone increase-- not just calcium intake but magnesium, phosphorus, boron, vitamin D, Vitamin K &, now, protein. Never heard that before but, thanks. Opened up my iPad just after posting last on the subject & had an email from Mayo Clinic (don't know why) rega...

I skimmed the article in the BMJ & don't find the conclusions to match the headlines-- maybe its just me. The study didn't go past 2½ years??? Yet they found 0.7-1.8% increase in BMD (bone mineral density) at all sites including the all important femoral neck. (Similar trials have found "an...

Lucy, the budesonide was the only thing last year that kept me from dying as I had to end up in the ER before my GI would prescribe it for me. Got down to 70#. Was 95-100# before CC began last spring 2014. I was already taking prednisone (5mg) daily for rheumatoid so maybe my GI hesitated to prescri...

...read recently that only about 20% of budesonide acts as a systemic steroid. The rest of it is SUPPOSED to only affect the colon. I can shake the capsules & hear the little beads of medicine inside-- much like the old 24 hr Contact cold capsules. The little beads are manufactured to get past t...

As a P.S. to my recent post, I've found cheap sources for this exceptional calcium product... made by nationally known brands NOW, Source Natural & Solaray. The Source Natural brand does have added Vitamin D. It costs $14.54 for 240 caps on the Swanson Vitamin site where I usually buy most of my...

I take this brand-- Bone-Up-- because I'm desperate to improve my bone density as I'm now taking a high dose of prednisone/steroid due to a sudden muscle paralysis condition that mimics myasthenia gravis. This started in June 2015 & I was suddenly unable to chew, swallow, breath, my muscles are ...

Jari, you will not get enuf calcium for your ostopenia by diet alone...theres just such a little amount in kale & spinach. Spinach has its own problems-- another subject. But I don't know why people insist on using calcium carbonate pills which is ground up gravel. No wonder people get stones or...

Lucy, your good Doctor is right with this drug. At 70# last year-- or less-- after weeks of watery D after being diagnosed with CC, my GI finally put me on Apriso which is the same as Lialda. Apriso is capsules which one takes 4 of at once, which is a total of 1.5grams. Can't say it did much for my ...

Karen, I had a script for plaquenil from my RA doctor but never took. Got it last month but, beside the eye caution with this drug, I had just got a muscle disease & as I was reading the plaquenil site it said not to use if any muscle problems. But I also recall reading a caution not to take pla...

Lucy, the budesonide stopped my weeks of explosive D within a couple of days! But I had to undergo the huge expense of taking Apriso for months first which was worthless. My GI wouldn't prescribe the budesonide for me until I was in the ER & I think phonecalls from the ER doc embarrassed her int...

Hi Tex, mucho thanks for your interesting reply. I take a lot of vitamins/supplements so know about magnesium-- as you apparently did too as you said you were taking magnesium & still had deficiency symptoms. I always check my labs taken at various docs offices & magnesium & calcium are ...

Gigi, I have been able to take a new drug for me... Meloxicam... for my severe crippling 42 yrs worth of R A. And no colitis flare which shocked me! I took 2400 mg more or less of ibuprofen every day since they invented the stuff. But I, too, really cried when I tried just 2 Advil gel caps recently ...

Lilja I don't have an answer for you but I have a similar question: what happens if one has on going MC &, say, wants to go in the hospital for knee surgery. How do you plan to "handle" your colitis symptoms while in the hospital? I was only in the hospital over nite 1x during the pre-...

Kate, I'm brand new here but am wondering if you ever got off the Pentasa? I "came down" with collagenous colitis last April 2014-- a severe case of which I'll skip the details except to say that I went from 95# down to 70# in about 3 weeks during which my big city gastroenterologist's off...