Hi. I was on entocort for about 9 months and while it did help control my symptoms i had bad side effects. I gained a lot of weight in my stomach, and my face got very swollen. My doctor said I had to get off entocort (which i wanted to do) and said I should try Apriso. This was about 2 months ago and I have been medication shy after my experience with entocort. Hence, for the last 2 months I was not on anything other than Lomotil when needed. About a week ago I started having really bad symptoms again, non-stop diarrhea and bad nausea. I finally decided to try the Apriso this morning. I am to take 4 each morning.
Has anyone had experience with Apriso? Has it worked? Were there side effects?
Any info. or personal experience that someone could share would be appreciated.
I have been completely off entocort for a about 5 weeks now. Weight is slowly, slowly coming off, and face swelling is slowly, slowly going down. Any thoughts on how long till I am back to my normal looking self?
Thanks to all.
Has anyone tried Apriso?
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Hi Andi
I was prescribed Apriso for LLQ (lower left quadrant) pain, not D or nausea. I took it for two months and did notice it helped with the LLQ pain. The side effects for me were fatigue and hair loss. I didn't have a problem with weight gain although the fatigue made me less active. Ultimately I decided to stop the medication and deal with the pain because the hair loss was disturbing for me. But the good news is my hair is growing back and my brush isn't full of hair anymore.
It is a bit confusing the Apriso is prescribed for MC because from what I have read it is similar to an NSAID (correct me if I'm wrong Tex) and NSAIDs are bad for MC.
I hope the med works for you and gives you some relief.
Gabby
I was prescribed Apriso for LLQ (lower left quadrant) pain, not D or nausea. I took it for two months and did notice it helped with the LLQ pain. The side effects for me were fatigue and hair loss. I didn't have a problem with weight gain although the fatigue made me less active. Ultimately I decided to stop the medication and deal with the pain because the hair loss was disturbing for me. But the good news is my hair is growing back and my brush isn't full of hair anymore.
It is a bit confusing the Apriso is prescribed for MC because from what I have read it is similar to an NSAID (correct me if I'm wrong Tex) and NSAIDs are bad for MC.
I hope the med works for you and gives you some relief.
Gabby
Yes, all of the 5-ASA meds are based on mesalamine, (including Asacol, Apriso, Colazal, Lialda, Pentasa, Rowasa, Canasa, etc.), and 5-ASA stands for 5-aminosalicylic acid, which means that it's a derivative of salicylic acid. Apparently Dr. Fine is the only GI doc who ever worries about that connection, though. In 1998 he published a research article in the New England Journal of Medicine that showed that for IBD patients who are sensitive to NSAIDs, mesalamine can cause the production of leukotrienes, similar to NSAIDs, resulting in inflammation, D, etc.Gabby wrote:It is a bit confusing the Apriso is prescribed for MC because from what I have read it is similar to an NSAID (correct me if I'm wrong Tex) and NSAIDs are bad for MC.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE ... 3263381320
Fortunately, not all of us are sensitive to NSAIDs, but many of us do react adversely to mesalamine, just as Dr. Fine predicted.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.