I'm gonna tell a true story about remicade and its blunt in areas
Before I had my colon removed that's about the 3-5th thing they tried. Remicade. Worked like a charm. I was miserable. Period. My uc was only just a few inches inside my anus. Rest of my colon was fine. But that little bit wrecked havoc on me. Which is surprising. I've seen pics of it and only a few ulcers. They put me on Remicade and nobody believes me but I felt a difference that day! Right after that I could poop a train! A solid solid 6-10 inches long unbroken. That's the blunt part. It felt so good to poop and to poop like that was a small miracle in itself. Prior to that it was bloody painful diarrhea.
About a year doing fine with Remicade I developed a hernia. So to have that surgery they wanted me off Remicade. OK. Have the surgery and I go back on Remicade.
Never worked again. None of the biological drugs worked. It was back to pure hell.
The worst thing about it while exploring pouches a surgeon said they should have never stopped the Remicade for the surgery. Bam!
So now my colon is gone and it's as normal as I will be.
But I'm good with it.
That's my Remicade story. It worked and it worked so well I was surprised. Because I was really sick. That all went away because of Remicade. Liquid gold the nurses called it. 7 grand per bag. Ya. Expensive.
So I guess if it works it works and you'll know it does I did.
I tried humira. One other. Stelara? It was an injection also but it's been awhile. I don't remember. Neither one of those did anything.
Moral of my story is if you get on it and it works. Don't stop! Because it may not work again.
I never tried it with my pouch. I had a healthy pouch. Just didn't work. So that's gone now too. And this is my normal. I'm OK with it too. No pain. Normal.
Richard.