I want to thank this group from the bottom of my heart. I would never have known that the prevacid caused my MC if I didn't come here. I am now better. It only took a few weeks after I got off that drug. I had to laugh when my dr. said that was a rare side effect. How rare can it be when it's on the welcoming page of this support group???
I have a whole bottle of asacol and it cost me a $50 co-pay and I don't know what to do with it but I feel like I should give it to someone who needs it and doesn't have health insurance or money. I don't know if it's permissible to give it away but if anyone wants it, please respond.
Peeps
thank you
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Hi Peeps,
Welcome to the board, and thank you so much for posting that experience. We learn from each other here, so it's great to have additional verification of our data from someone with first-hand experience. Hopefully, discontinuing the drug will be all that will be necessary to maintain remission from MC.
I find it interesting that doctors almost always consider such adverse side effects of drugs to be "rare".
That's very kind of you to offer the Asacol to someone who can use it. Other members here have done that sort of thing, also, and hopefully, someone who needs it will read your post, and respond.
Again, welcome aboard, and please keep us updated if your MC status should change, because these are uncharted waters, and your situation offers a prime learning opportunity. Usually, members in your situation are fine in the long-term, so long as they avoid the drug, (or family of drugs), that triggered their MC, but now and then, someone in that situation will develop a food sensitivity, which will cause their MC to relapse at some later date, and thereafter, they will have to eliminate that food from their diet, in order maintain remission.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Tex
Welcome to the board, and thank you so much for posting that experience. We learn from each other here, so it's great to have additional verification of our data from someone with first-hand experience. Hopefully, discontinuing the drug will be all that will be necessary to maintain remission from MC.
I find it interesting that doctors almost always consider such adverse side effects of drugs to be "rare".
That's very kind of you to offer the Asacol to someone who can use it. Other members here have done that sort of thing, also, and hopefully, someone who needs it will read your post, and respond.
Again, welcome aboard, and please keep us updated if your MC status should change, because these are uncharted waters, and your situation offers a prime learning opportunity. Usually, members in your situation are fine in the long-term, so long as they avoid the drug, (or family of drugs), that triggered their MC, but now and then, someone in that situation will develop a food sensitivity, which will cause their MC to relapse at some later date, and thereafter, they will have to eliminate that food from their diet, in order maintain remission.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
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.
Prevacid gave me watery D many many years ago (long time before I came down with MC). However, Prilosec and Nexium didn't. I'm not saying that they didn't help cause my MC - Just that my body reacted right away to Prevacid. Don't know what the differestnce was.
I don't know what actually brought on my MC. I seem to have done or experienced all the things that are "suspected triggers".
Glad you are beter.
Shirley
I don't know what actually brought on my MC. I seem to have done or experienced all the things that are "suspected triggers".
Glad you are beter.
Shirley
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber"
-- Winston Churchill
-- Winston Churchill