Time for Prednisone?

All, Whenever I'm in a double mind to make a decision I talk to my mom; but w.r.t UC I find Healingwell the right place as it has got lovely people like my mom.

This year Nov 1st I have been diagnosed with left sided mild colitis. I started seeing the symptoms since 10-Oct-2013 - blood marks on the stools.

After the sigmoidoscopy i.e on Nov 1st, for two days the bleeding was little more and then started to subside a little may be no blood atleast on the toilet paper. But again since two days I'm seeing mucus and today blood marks on the stools and on the toilet paper.

W.r.t medications after the scopy my GI prescribed me 'Beclometason 3g Mesalazine 3g' enema to heal the inflammation on the left side. After reaching home I wondered how could the enema reach out till my descending. Then I decided to add on 2g pentasa extra to make it 6g Pentasa granules. So I take 4g Pentasa in the morning and 2g Pentasa in the night and the enema shot at night. I didn't let my GI know about the add on dosage of Pentasa. But it seemed to help a bit.

Ahhhh this 'Beclometason 3g Mesalazine 3g' enema is horrible - it has very strong pungent smell. In the morning when I open the bowel - my God!!!! I feel really suffocated because of the smell.

So far I have stood strong not to go for Pred but I have my engagement next month and because I've been seeing blood continuously for a month, its time for me to go for Pred?
Longer the bleeding more are the chances of the disease spreading up?
And since two days I got sinus infection - may be this would have triggered the immune system again?
And how would pred react to the infection?
Won't the Pred allow the immune system to kill the sinus infection or the immune system will kill the sinus infection and will subside the pred function to act on the UC?
I think lots of bad guys are in my gut and what you people do for foul smelling farts?

W.r.t diet - I eat one avocado and one banana in the morning.
For lunch 3/4 cup of boiled white rice and boiled carrot/boiled apple.
For dinner 1/ 2cup of boiled white rice.

I know I'm not eating much but I'm afraid of diarrhea as I have to work as well.

Your inputs and advice are really really appreciated.

The prednisone weakens your immune system, which will make it harder to get over your sinus infection, not easier. Are you on antibiotics at all? They can make your condition worse.

I also believe that I got UC from taking broad spectrum antibiotics while I was in the hospital. I mean my UC started right there in the middle of my hospital stay. When I brought up my diarrhea to the docs they just figured it was associated with the antibiotics but would go away after discontinuation. Once I started with the diarrhea they put me on Florastor but by then it was apparently too late. It is not standard procedure to put anyone on probiotics while taking antibiotics but some doctors do do it. There isn't any definitive proof that antibiotics actually cause UC although circumstantial evidence abounds everywhere regarding the issue. There also isn't one shred of evidence that if antibiotics do actually cause UC that taking probiotics at the same time will prevent it. It is pretty much proven that antibiotics do cause colitis, but this colitis is usually due to a C-Diff or similar type infection and not UC and taking probiotics at the same time as antibiotics could very well prevent one of those type of infections.

Gary & DMC, That is true. I was doing a search and found this link explains nice

http://www.livescience.com/15740-helpful-bacteria-antibiotics.html

and a little extract from that page

"Overuse of antibiotics could be fueling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations," writes Martin Blaser, a professor of microbiology and chairman of the department of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center.

Ok, so far I stayed away from Pred but today the bleeding and mucus has increased and more like a diarrhea. So not a good sign. I think the sinus infection has calmed down so I took 40mg of Pred today. Hope the Pred helps me.

My symptoms started right there when I was in the hospital after just a couple of days of being on broad spectrum antibiotics. I hadn't even finished them.

@MikeSoCal - The UC symptoms started gradually during the Antibiotics course. I was prescribed 10 courses of Antibiotics in just One year.

2 courses were for the Sinus infection and 8 courses for the Wisdom teeth infection. Each course was for a week with 21caps - 3times a day.

I started seeing the UC symptoms during my 5-6 course of Antibiotics. The Antibiotics I were prescribed were Metronidazole and Amoxycillin.

Infact I remember when I was admitted in the hospital(in India) due to the severe sickness due to the UC proctitis(newly diagnosed), after the colonoscopy the GI prescribed me Antibiotics. I asked why? He said to avoid any infections on the scares on the bowel caused during the C-scope.

The course of Antibiotics which my GI put me was ridiculous and it clearly shows he is an educated illiterate.
How sad this is?? I could think of how horribly this antibiotics shattered my immune system.