Hi All,
Happy Holidays to everyone!!!!!
I finally tapered off Entocort, taking my last pill last week. I should have listened to the potty people's advice and not my GI dr. Since Sept. or October, I don't remember, it's all a blur, I had been dealing with severe constipation while taking the Entocort. After my disastrous tapering off in August, I followed the Dr.'s taper down schedule and didn't take your advice to cut back on the Entocort earlier. Even now with taking my last pill last week, I am still a bit constipated. Since the severe constipation started I would come home from work, immediately drink a glass of Citrucel and following it with 3 stools softeners and I would have a BM the next morning, but not a lot, and I think that is still my problem, I don't go enough. My GI told me that it is the IBS in play now, I think I was taking Entocort for too long, since May. On the weekend, I took my Citrucel cocktail and the stool softeners and had the worst abdominal pains, I could not stand up straight. They have gone away and I'm going to lay off of the Citrucel and stool softeners for a while. I know don't drink enough water, so I'm trying hard to drink more.
I guess I'm in remission. I don't ever want to take Entocort again! I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Susanne
finally tapered off Entocort and the potty people knows best
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Hi Susanne,
Thanks for the update. I hope that remission will remain a faithful friend.
Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Constipation-Free New Year!
Tex
Thanks for the update. I hope that remission will remain a faithful friend.
Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Constipation-Free New Year!
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.
Congratulations! Sorry it had go happen the crampy way. At least if you have to take it again, you'll have experience of the do's and dont's.
Deb
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2007 CC
2013 thyroid cancer- total thyroidectomy
2013 Hashimoto's - numbers always "normal"
2017 Lyme's Disease
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
2007 CC
2013 thyroid cancer- total thyroidectomy
2013 Hashimoto's - numbers always "normal"
2017 Lyme's Disease
OH BOY HOW LONG WERE YOU ON ENTOCORT SUZANNE?
TO GO FROM ONE EXTREEM TO ANOTHER AND WITH STOMACH CRAMPS
AND WE THINK WE ARE MAKING OURSELVES BETTER.
WELL I HOPE IT ALL EVENS OUT FOR YOU SOON, AND
YOU WILL BE CONSTIPATION FREE, AND IN THE BEST OF HEALTH.
WISHING YOU A VERY HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
KID REGARDS
MARIE
TO GO FROM ONE EXTREEM TO ANOTHER AND WITH STOMACH CRAMPS
AND WE THINK WE ARE MAKING OURSELVES BETTER.
WELL I HOPE IT ALL EVENS OUT FOR YOU SOON, AND
YOU WILL BE CONSTIPATION FREE, AND IN THE BEST OF HEALTH.
WISHING YOU A VERY HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
KID REGARDS
MARIE
jmg