Thank you for stopping by on this blustery, rainy, beautifully cloudy first day of December! I hope you’re toasty warm by the fire with a cup of coffee or cocoa in hand. (I know I sure am, along with mittens and two pairs of socks thanks to my perpetually cold hands and feet LOL). Today […]
2 Simple Ways You Can Support the PSC Community, Even if You Don’t Have the Disease
What is primary sclerosing cholangitis, how is it connected to IBD, and why is there an organ shortage for those on the liver transplant list? I’ll answer all these questions in today’s PSC Awareness Day blog post and share how you can support the PSC community—even if you don’t know anyone with the disease! What […]
The Strange Link Between Elevated Liver Numbers and Failing Remicade
Near the end of 2017, I had elevated liver numbers while I simultaneously began to lose response to Remicade without developing Remicade antibodies. The combination of these two red flags is a sign that there might be something deeper at play than just ulcerative colitis. A lot of the time, these signs point to a […]
Health Update: An Inflamed Colon, an Inconvenient Hospitalization, and Starting Entyvio
In August 2018, I was hospitalized for five days for the worst ulcerative colitis flare of my life. In this post, I share why I was hospitalized, how they managed my symptoms in the hospital, and how this flare affected my long-term school and career plans. Let’s dive in! The First Signs of the Flare […]
How Elevated Liver Numbers Threw a Wrench in My Health Plan
After taking a one-year break from Remicade, I restarted the biologic in 2017. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as well as it originally did, and my doctor thought that my high liver numbers might hold the keys to discovering the answer. In this blog post, I share why my elevated liver numbers threw a wrinkle in […]
I Flared Two Months Before My Wedding: This Flare Food Helped Get Me Through
One year before my wedding, I switched from Remicade to Sulfasalazine, a 5-ASA oral medication. It kept me in remission for nearly about twelve months, but I fell into a flare one month before my wedding. In this post, I share the flare food that helped me manage my symptoms until a new medicine kicked […]