entocort withdrawl question

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entocort withdrawl question

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I know I am posting alot these days... Quick question. I started down to 2 yesterday. It wasn't a great day but not horrible. Today has been awful. I took my first pepto since I started taking the entocort in the beginning of August. While I've been on it I've been going to the bathroom many many times a day, but it's not always runny, and my stomach does hurt (it feels inflamed). But today has been something much worse. Could it already be the entocort withdrawl?

Should I try to convince my dr to let me stay on 9 mg for a while longer? I am not sure she is going to agree to it since my pathology report says I don't have MC. May be time to find a new dr.

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Lisa wrote:Could it already be the entocort withdrawl?
Well, it certainly suggests that you need a higher dose to keep the LC symptoms under conrtol.
Lisa wrote:Should I try to convince my dr to let me stay on 9 mg for a while longer?
If it's been helping to relieve your symptoms, then obviously that's an indication that you have inflammation that it is helping to suppress. If you feel better while taking it, and you haven't been having side effect problems from it, then I see no reason why you shouldn't ask for an extension.

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Thanks. Just didn't know if it could happen that quickly.
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It usually doesn't, but if you are not in a state of stable remission, then you are probably much more sensitive to a reduction in the dose.

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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I'm suspecting that it isn't related to dropping down to 2 a day of the Entocort. And 2 months isn't long enough, IMO, to see if you are going to see any results from the medication.
I would lean more towards what you are ingesting as far as foods.


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Hmmm - am not doing anything differently - have been GF, DF, SF, NF, CF (what else am I forgetting) since June and really try to eat a very sparse diet.
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