Can you reach remission with Mezavant and rectal Salofalk alone?

I think Ipoop told me to monitor my symptoms week to week oppose to day to day, man was he right. My symptoms of this disease are so much different then a lot of people on here. I do not have an urgency to go, I do not have a lot of bowel movements during the day and for almost two weeks now I have no blood in my stool. My stools have been well formed as well.

However the two main symptoms I get and they range from mild to debilitating are stomach pains and joint pain. I am hoping once I achieve remission both of them will go away. However I am not taking the steroid I was prescribed by my doctor Apo-Prednisone instead I am just taking Mezavant 3.6g and Salofalk rectal 1000mg. I have only been on them for just over a week, or those two medications without pred enough to potentially get me into remission? The stomach pain is relatively minor and get's worse with certain foods/drinks but the joint pain comes and goes with fierce vengeance.

quincy said...
As I may have mentioned much earlier, retention enemas would have been better.

You do NOT need the steroid based on the symptoms you have.

You do NOT have a diagnosis yet.

And yes....mesalamine oral and rectal enemas have been my only med regimen for 28 years, so yes it has the amazing ability to get one into remission and be maintained with a dosage decrease by tapering.

Your body pain needs to be checked out and further blood tests and xrays need to be done if you have obvious inflammation.. You could be referred to a rheumatologist through your GI.

It is possible you had a viral or bacterial infection....both of which can cause joint pain. IBD can have secondary joint pain....some related directly, some not.

Some are sensitive to mesalamine meds.....and yes, body and joint pain can be a side effect.

If you are wanting to try the pred.....try it. What was the schedule regimen for tapering?

q

I don't want to try the pred to tell you the truth, I Just want to make sure that I can in fact receive remission through the current meds I am on. My joint pain moves around so would be hard to tell where to get an xray from but I have had stomach and chest xrays along with full blood work done 3 weeks ago. Showed nothing out of ordinary except my pancreas was creating elevated digestive enzymes.

The body aches/pain have been going on for months.

Everything Quincy said!

Sulfasalazine is both a UC med and a med for Rheumatoid Arthritis, so it could help with your joint pains. Ask your gasteroenteroligist about Sulfasalazine instead of Mezavant.