I've recently been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis after many months of hemorraghing (had to get four blood transfusions!) and am now on sterroids for the next month and have to take sulfasalazine for the rest of my life to prevent flare-ups.

Does anybody have or know somebody with an inflammatory bowel disease? Cause I don't know anyone...

Oh, and if I get facial hair from the steroids, I'm giving myself a hitler moustache

My friend Laura has ulcerative colitis and though she does have to pop pills, since it initially caused her problems and was disagnosed she has had a pretty good run with her health. About seven years now. And we got over singing "the girl with colitis goes by...", eventually.

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Had similar problems a few years ago, after a year siege with weight loss/other awful problems too gross to go into here.
After a job change and course of medication, I haven't really had problems since 2002. At the time of my illness I had lost 30 pounds and was under the worst job stress of my life, I think that was really what did it. NOTE: I really didn't need to lose 30 pounds, I looked like death's head.

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Are you on medication indefinitely? My friend is.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

Not right now. To make a long story short, during 2001 I became really sick, I was under a doctor's care and at first they thought it was Crohns' (sp?) Disease (a few people in my family had it) or perhaps celiac disease. I literally couldn't eat. Other stuff happened as well, like bleeding, etc. I was hospitalized for that once and it was pretty scary...
After a load of tests they couldn't find anything definitive, so I was diagnosed with severe IBS (sort of a catch all, I guess?). I was on medication for a while; I was also transferred to a different job at the time, which helped immensely. In my opinion I think stress was killing me.

Sorry to hijack your thread, CounterfeitVoid! At any rate try to destress yourself, I think that contributed to my intestinal agony the most...

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