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by lwalker
Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:01 am
Forum: Discussions on Treatment Options Using Diet, and/or Medications
Topic: help encort weaning off question
Replies: 2
Views: 1089

help encort weaning off question

I was weaning off encort from 1 every other day to 1 every 3 days and started to have more trouble with diarrhea, and nausea, now after seeing GI I am back on the Asacol 2 3 times a day, and 1 encort for a week then go to every other day etc...I would welcome anyone's experience with encort weaning ...
by lwalker
Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:26 pm
Forum: Discussions on Treatment Options Using Diet, and/or Medications
Topic: New to the Forum and Diagnosed in October 08
Replies: 28
Views: 5174

Hello I hope this finds you feeling better, yes I agree finding this website was a godsend, and my GI did not know about the site, I informed him in the hope he would recommend the site to other patients diagnosed with MC..........I have been on Entorcort, and have now cut it down to one a day 3mg, ...
by lwalker
Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:47 pm
Forum: Discussions on Treatment Options Using Diet, and/or Medications
Topic: Asacol
Replies: 27
Views: 6585

Hey Mitzi: The Asacol 2 tabs three times a day alone did not improve me significantly. Then in Feb GI put me on Entocort 3mg x 3 a day which I started with 3 mg x 2 a day, and so far after about 2 weeks I feel better than I have in months. The Asacol I still take 2 tabs twice a day, but I was having...
by lwalker
Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:38 pm
Forum: Discussions on Treatment Options Using Diet, and/or Medications
Topic: I am brand new to Microscopic colitis
Replies: 58
Views: 10283

Hey KD: I was diagnosed with MC in November and was on Asacol for from Nov-Feb 2 tabs 3 times a day and took enough Lomotil, to sink a battle ship. I am also a RN and trying to run an ambulatory surgery center and be in an OR does not work with 5-13 bouts of "d" a day, long story short, my...
by lwalker
Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:59 pm
Forum: Discussions on Treatment Options Using Diet, and/or Medications
Topic: more help
Replies: 3
Views: 1323

more help

Thanks to all that responded to my previous "help" message, I am one week on the entocort and down to Asacol 2 twice a day, I still have unbelievable nausea seems to hit me in the afternoon, no vomiting since starting the Entocort, but still have the nausea, which lucky for me is in the p....
by lwalker
Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:59 pm
Forum: Discussions on Treatment Options Using Diet, and/or Medications
Topic: Starting Entocort
Replies: 18
Views: 4637

Dee Dee: I was reading your post on Entocort and I have just started on it this past Tuesday, 3mg x 3 in a.m., however, I have only taken 3mg x 2 in a.m. as I was worried I would not sleep, and not knowing the side effects, (the nurse in me), I was interested in your comment about 3 weeks dosage wh...
by lwalker
Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:09 pm
Forum: Discussions on Treatment Options Using Diet, and/or Medications
Topic: Help
Replies: 6
Views: 1477

Help

I was dx with LColitis and have been taking Asacol 2, three times a day since, I have experienced alot of nausea, and when we tried to cut dose to 2 twice a day, the Colitis started again, not to the tune of 12 times a day, but I could tell it was starting up. Recently saw my GI doc and now I am tak...

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