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Reply to "UC is gone but now Inflammation in other areas"

UC is an autoimmune disorder. Surgery to remove the colon may remove the UC, but it doesn’t remove auto immune disorder from your body. UC was just one manifestation of it- there can be others (for example, ankylosing spondylitis, which is similar to what you are complaining of). Those other autoimmune disorders/inflammation usually get treated with biologics. 

Age and what shape you are in have nothing to do with it. Rolf Benirschke played in the NFL with Crohn’s Disease that wasn’t well controlled for many years. Ditto with Derek Sanderson who played in the NHL at a star level in the 1970s with ulcerative colitis and other autoimmune disorders.

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