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Hi Marcie, It is to help reduce the swelling that is involved in UC. With UC , and other IBD's, Your colin is ulcerated, bleeding and swollen. The st...

They have several of those available on You tube. They are all clear and calm. Worth a watch. Be well out there!

Prednisone is a steroid that is used for a lot of different conditions. ( Not for pain, as Robert has already mentioned). It is only ( I think in ou...

Hello Kiya, For you ( and anyone else ) there is a series of videos ( youtube) by St John's Hospital ( Canada maybe?) That do a good job of explainin...

Its great because everyone has something a little bit different to contribute. This place has been really helpful to me. I trolled through the things ...

Welcome to the forum, Kiya. Its always wonderful to have a new voice.

Felicity, that could put you right off apples for awhile! Good luck with the upcoming 'events' ... I hope you get a solid date for the surgery soon....

Yup.. Its just me an my rectal stump now ( two words I had never thought to ever hear together!). No prep now for the annual flex sig. I just don't ea...

Hi troops! There are also different kinds of preps. The BEST one I found , and there is such a thing, was Pik -O -Prep. It costs a bit more, and you...

My husband and I lived on an island in the Soloman Sea in Papua New Guinea for a while (anthropologists) where we learned about the concept of 'meat...

Hello again, Linda. Thank you for posting more of your story. It really helps all of us to understand each other better and the trials we have endured...

I ALWAYS get knocked out! I had one once without the good drugs when I was just new to this whole UC thing. I wanted to kill people. right there on t...

I get scoped every year too. Just to make sure nothing else bad is happening. I saw a cartoon in the newspaper the other day ( LA Times...Bizarro). So...

Felicity ( and all), Spirit of the Forest by Baka Beyond is one of my all time favorites! : We also really enjoy King Sunny Ade, Orchestra Baobab, Ge...

Welcome to the forums Barbara. I am happy you came out of the shadows to join us and contribute to our 'project' here. We are all benefiting from Eric...

Hi again Carolyn. I am posting a link to the doctor who developed this hernia repair technique. ( I googled him). This is an interesting page however...

Felicity, Good luck with your upcoming hospital visit. You have a great list ( the fish flops are hilarious...Amazon has the most amazing variety of s...

Robert, Great to see your picture and your wife as well. Much more personable. I can't do the photo thing either. My husband posted mine for me.

Marcie, The Thread ( at least how I refer to it) is just this discussion chain you are on right now, as you are reading this. Just go back a page and ...

Hi Jattzi, I do find letting the gas out through the EZ- vent makes the nausea go away after about a half an hour. Or just get up and empty it. I ne...