Reply to "Has anyone tried alternative therapies for pouchitis"

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My doctor started me on Mesalamine enemas and after three days, things are off to the roughest start ever. It's as if I'm taking nothing for my pouchitis. I have all the fun symptoms such as urgency, pressure, frequency and BURNING/RAWNESS/SORENESS. Can't function at work, can't sleep. Life is pretty much "in the toilet" at the moment.

Is the thinking behind Mesalamine suppositories/enemas that the pouchitis is a manifestation of Crohns/Colitis and so treating it should be with related drugs? I remember taking Sulfasalazine when I had UC.

Got a link to the Olive Leaf Extract Oil you're taking?

10/19/218:30 AM

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