Intro

I'm a 33 years old guy based in London, UK and on 23rd April 2015 I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I'll never know how I got it, it’s probably too expensive to find an exact answer. I'll spare you all the details about the problems I had with the NHS and that I had to go private etc etc, will leave that for another post maybe, and I'll get straight to the point.

Why this blog? Simple. Because when I looked around for information about Ulcerative Colitis, I did find lots of useful and informative sites, but not many blog-like sites, so somewhere I could read the experience of one person, see how the illness evolves. So after a bit of a mental debate with myself, I decided that it was a good idea to put everything on the net, who knows, somebody might benefit from this information. I'll try to post an update every week.

I'm not a physician, and therefore I'm not here to offer advices to anybody: this is merely a sequence of events and a description of the symptoms and the course of my illness, that's all, it's not gospel.

Find out more information about me and my symptoms here.

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

It's a long way out

The first consultant I saw, referred me to the gastroenterologist whom I saw today.

He looked at the test results and confirmed the diagnosis, Ulcerative Colitis.

I asked him whether it was worth following any kind of diet, but he said that it wasn't necessary and that I should eat everything. Still, it feels odd to be able to eat everything, there's gotta be something that could make things worse. I'm taking it easy, and avoiding the food that could cause irritation, like coffee, fatty food, chocolate etc. And then he gave me an extra two months on mesalazine, 4g per day, because apparently it takes some time on this drug before you can see any results. In fairness, I've been taking mesalazine for exactly 3 weeks today, and I have to say, things are a lot better.

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