MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

I, too, am taking Asacol and Entocort. When I was first diagnosed with MC and began the Asacol, it began working immediately. I tapered down from 6 a day to 4 a day with no repercussions . . . until early this summer when I flared again, due in part to stress related to my mother's passing. My GI su...

Hi, I had been on entocort for about 3 weeks with not much results when I decided to try the gluten-free diet, which was about 4 days ago. This is weird, but the day I went GF, my D began to improve. I don't know if it was that the entocort had finally begun to kick in, or that I am gluten sensitive...

Thanks for the feedback, guys. I didn't realize, Tex, that Imitrex was an SSRI. I was getting alot of headaches during the spring prior to my flare-up, since our weather was crazy, and I think I was reacting to the barometer, so maybe the Imitrex overload was a factor, as my flare begain in June. Al...

Kari,

I started a new topic called "New to the Support Group" with my story. Thanks for your interest.

butterfly

Thanks for all the great information. The drug thing was interesting. I have been taking a beta blocker for several years for heart palpitations. Maybe my PCP can come up with some other way to treat them and take me off of it. I also have migraines and take Imitrex, but seldom use any over the coun...

Thanks for all your great responses. You made me feel very welcome! But, I wanted to ask, what is "drug-induced" MC? What kinds of drugs are you referring to? [/u][/i]

I was so encouraged to find a website like this that provides so much individual support to colitis sufferers, in addition to incredibly useful information regarding treatment, medication and diet plans. Everything I have read I can relate to, and that in itself gives me hope and makes me realize th...

Sorry for the typo - I'm a newbie, not a newbit, although that has a bit of ring to it, don't you think?!!

The same thing happened to me as happened to Kari. I'm a newbit and wrote a fairly long story of my situation with CC. I clicked on preview and it vanished. I don't have time to rewrite now, but I'll try again later. Glad to have found the support group. You've already been alot of help to me!