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I was seen within a few days by a Gastroenterologist, in a hospital clinic, and after a brief chat he initially performed a sigmoidoscopy – where they have a look up your bum at the last bit of you colon – Surprisingly it’s not as painful as you would think, and was over very quickly, although it was a somewhat awkward experience.  Then I was sent for an abdominal X-Ray.

Anyway with all that out of the way he confirmed the diagnosis of Ulcerative Colitis, and I said – Well what on earths that?! He explained that my colon was partly inflamed and ulcerated, the ulceration was causing the blood loss and he showed me the X-ray which showed my colon to be half empty, the explanation being that the inflammation was causing my body to hold my poo back from part of my colon, and then when it had to expel it, things were being pushed through a high velocity, and there was no chance for a stool to be formed – hence the diarrhea and pain.

So my next question was obviously – What has caused it ?, and that answer was – err, well were not really sure, it could be genetic, and  its thought to be an autoimmune disease, but no one really knows for sure ! But it’s not life threateninng except in extreme cases and we have a treatment plan that should get it under control. Oh and they wanted me to go back for a full colonoscopy as well.

I mentioned that I had some food intolerances, which had been previously identified by an igg antibody test, and that I wondered If diet may have an effect on the condition. The doctor advised that food wasn’t though to have an effect on colitis, but that dairy products could sometimes aggravate things in some people, so to avoid milk.

The doctor then prescribed steroids (prednisolone) and pentasa, he said I should be feeling better in about a week, which was to be honest a great relief to hear, although I was rather shocked when I asked how long I had to take the drugs –steroids for 9 weeks- that’s not too bad- but Pentasa for LIFE !

I was shocked, I’d always been a healthy person, the thought of being on medication for life was almost inconceivable to me, and quite undesirable. But at the time I didn’t have any other options, so I went Home hopeful of a speedy recovery.

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