Fairly recently diagnosed with UC, questions about Humira

Hi, my name is Alex and I'm new to Healing Well. I'm 18 years old and I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis In December 2013. I saw a pediatric GI for a couple of months and she simply put me on prednisone and Pentasa, while the prednisone worked quite well,I was on it for about 8 months, too long from what I have heard. After I turned 18, I was quickly referred to an adult GI and in the very first meeting he almost immediately determined I would most likely have to go on Humira. The only reason I can think of that he may have came to that conclusion so quickly was I had difficulty tapering my corticosteroids. My adult GI put me on Lialda, 2-1.2G tablets once daily, and slowly tapered me off steroids over the next 5 months. However, soon after starting Lialda, my insurance decided to no longer cover Lialda so I was switched to Delzicol, 2-400mg capsules 3x daily, and have been on that ever since. about a month ago I started Humira, still being inflamed after being off steroids. My first injection went alright, however after my second injection, two weeks later, I started feeling Flu-like. I have been bedridden up until two days ago when I went to the ER, as I had been getting progressively worse.

I was just wondering if anyone thinks my GI put me on Humira too fast and didn't exhaust other safer options, as Humira is a fairly risky drug.

Thanks everyone for your time and responses. :)

Post Edited (Dalden246) : 9/12/2014 6:52:33 PM (GMT-6)

I'm personally really iffy about the Humira. My doctor never once even mentioned upping my dosage on Delzicol, in fact he wants me off of it soon once the Humira "kicks in." I used to take Probiotics once or twice daily but I stopped as they can be expensive but I recently started taking them again since my family has found a cheaper brand, but it says it only has 1 billion viable cells. Originally, before I was diagnosed my mom convinced me to try gluten-free since she thought it was a gluten allergy, but it didn't help. I just try to avoid overly greasy foods when I'm flaring or not feeling well. I've asked both my pediatric GI and adult GI if there are any foods I should avoid, such as spicy foods, I don't recall either of them restricting my diet, just my pediatric GI said that popcorn kernels might bother me if I'm flaring. Thanks so much for your reply! I was almost afraid no one would reply since I don't see a lot of posts about Humira on here.