Ulcerative Colitis (UC) & Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
What the Research says about its Symptoms, Causes, Prevention, and Treatment
by Brian Benjamin Carter
I am 56 years old. I have been put on sedatives by my father’s doctor to prevent a full-blown recurrence of colitis. As soon as I ate something it seemed to fall right through my system without being digested. Shortly after that all that was coming out was a mixture of excrement and blood. Then it became mostly blood. After sleeping that night, I awoke in the morning and did not eat breakfast and went immediately to the hospital. They put me on intravenous fluids and I was given Jell-O and broth. I was in the hospital for at least a week or maybe ten days before my release. They gave me a shot of cortisone before my release and put me on prednisone. When my heart was beating so fast they couldn’t stop the beats I was taken off the prednisone. (more…)