#ibd medications

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[drkiranpeddi]

Inflammatory Bowel Disease and its Treatment in Hyderabad - Dr. Kiran Peddi

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a serious condition that affects the digestive system, causing inflammation and damage to the intestinal walls. It is a chronic condition that can cause severe discomfort, pain, and diarrhea. IBD includes two types of diseases, Crohn's disease, and Ulcerative Colitis. While there is no known cure for IBD, the condition can be managed through proper treatment and medication. In Hyderabad, there are several experienced gastroenterologists and IBD specialists who offer advanced treatment options for patients suffering from this condition.

Finding the Right IBD Specialist in Hyderabad - Dr. Kiran Peddi

If you are experiencing symptoms of IBD, it is important to seek medical attention as soon as possible. In Hyderabad, Dr. Kiran Peddi is an experienced Gastroenterologist and IBD specialist who offer advanced treatment options for patients with IBD. When choosing a specialist, it is important to consider factors such as their experience, reputation, and the services they offer

What is Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)?

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a group of disorders that cause inflammation in the digestive tract. The inflammation can affect different parts of the digestive system, including the small intestine, large intestine, and rectum. The exact cause of IBD is unknown, but researchers believe that a combination of genetic and environmental factors play a role in the development of the condition. IBD is a chronic condition, meaning it persists for a long time and may require ongoing medical treatment to manage symptoms.

Symptoms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

The symptoms of IBD vary from person to person and can range from mild to severe. Common symptoms of IBD include:

Abdominal pain and cramping

Diarrhea

Blood in stool

Weight loss

Fatigue

Loss of appetite

It is important to seek medical attention if you are experiencing any of these symptoms, as early diagnosis and treatment can help prevent the progression of the condition and reduce the risk of complications.

Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Diagnosing IBD involves a thorough evaluation of a patient's medical history, physical examination, and a series of tests, including:

Stool sample analysis

Blood tests

Imaging tests, such as X-rays, CT scans, and MRI

Endoscopic procedures, such as colonoscopy and upper endoscopy

Based on the results of these tests, a gastroenterologist can diagnose IBD and determine the appropriate treatment plan.

Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in Hyderabad

There is no cure for IBD, but the condition can be managed through a combination of medication, lifestyle changes, and other treatments. In Hyderabad, experienced gastroenterologists and IBD specialists offer several advanced treatment options for patients with IBD, including:

Medications: There are several types of medications that can be used to manage IBD, including anti-inflammatory drugs, immunosuppressive drugs, and biologic agents.

Dietary Changes: Patients with IBD may need to make changes to their diet, including avoiding certain foods that can worsen symptoms and increasing their intake of fiber and other nutrients.

Surgery: In severe cases, surgery may be necessary to remove damaged sections of the intestine or to treat other complications of IBD.

It is important to work closely with a gastroenterologist and IBD specialist to determine the best treatment plan for your individual needs and to manage the symptoms of IBD effectively.

Contact info:

+91 9390150150 / 9581000505

Yashoda Hospitals - Somajiguda, Raj Bhavan Rd, Matha Nagar, Somajiguda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500082

Gastro Care Clinics, Unit 201, Surya Arcade, behind Labonel Fine Baking, Cyber Hills Colony, P Janardhan Reddy Nagar, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032

[jmtorres]

Hi, this is random, but would you mind sharing more about your gut issues/long covid? (I.e. diagnosis, treatment). I have chronic fatigue, and gut issues that are definitely linked to that, but all of my doctors are being extremely useless about it. (No worries if this is not the kind of info you want to share with a total stranger on the internet)

(This is in reference to my comment on this post)

@reptilerex I appreciate you recognizing the sensitivity of this ask, I am going to go ahead and answer it because I feel like the likelihood that you or someone you know (or even others of my readers) are struggling with long covid and finding adequate medical help vastly outweighs the minuscule probability that you've hacked into HIPAA records and are planning to dox me lol

so in the immediate aftermath of my first bout of covid (despite vaxxing and masking regularly, I'm up to two now 😭) my obvious symptoms were fatigue – going to the grocery store would wear me out for 2+ days – and a 20 year-old scar from a car accident reopened, which sounds like some scurvy ass bullshit, and I do wonder if the fact that my friend @niqaeli, who knew that long covid symptoms are highly correlated with MCAS symptoms and was encouraging me to start MCAS otc treatments like vitamin C supplements, helped. (worth noting that while I didn't hear anything about old scars reopening as a covid/post covid thing before it happened to me, but when I told people about it, they were like "oh yeah, that happened to me or someone I know" SO often) My doctor sent me to a wound specialist for that, and they kept poking it trying to figure out if there was some embedded shrapnel that they hadn't realized was in there originally, but ultimately it just healed back over much redder and angrier than the first time.

so then, the fatigue. My doctor had me wait three months because it wasn't officially long covid until three months. obnoxious as hell. I found out the DMV accepts long covid for a disability placard reason and got my doctor to write me a DMV form about how I couldn't walk hardly any distance. she was willing to do that before the three month mark.

I was Johnny on the spot coming back three months after, the first thing she did was send me for a chest x-ray because the obvious/expected reason for fatigue is you're not getting enough O2 in your blood. There was nothing wrong with my lungs and we were kind of at a dead end until I presented my doctor with more options.

I mean, I was kind of like, my PCP is being useless, I have a PPO, why can't I just go directly to a specialist, but it turns out specialist won't take you without a referral because reasons. I had heard rheumatologist is as good at figuring out weird vague shit so I tried to book there but when I told them long covid, they said that wasn't their department. They said I needed to go see an immunologist which sounded wrong to me, but there was a pretty good HIV specialist immunologist in the area that I tried to book with who said no that's not what long covid is. someone recommended a Long Covid Specialty clinic in a city that is 2 to 5 hours away depending on traffic and I knew I wasn't making that drive in my current condition so was like somebody local gotta help me.

so I went back to my PCP and said to her that I had learned from disability communities online that sometimes a rheumatologist can be helpful. And she said OK we can do some blood tests for inflammation markers to see if I can justify a referral to a rheumatologist. (and I thought of my weird scar issue and thought gee I better have some weird inflammation markers)

So I had some inflammation markers pop and I got a referral to a rheumatologist, and they were actually willing to see me. The rheumatologist ordered so many tests, like an unbelievable number of tests. I think they drew like eight vials of blood. Plus other samples. The rheumatologist was basically like let's look for anything and everything.

I had a borderline response on Calprotectin. To quote from the explainer in the test notes:

Calprotectin in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis can be five to several thousand times above the reference population (50 mcg/g or less). Levels are usually 50 mcg/g or less in healthy patients and with irritable bowel syndrome.

so I wasn't high enough to qualify for IBD outright from that test results, but I was high enough that it flagged to the rheumatologist, and I had reported a family history (brother has IBD), so he said that was enough to diagnose and started prescribing me for that.

The thing is, rheumatology is an ass backwards way to get an IBD diagnosis and I was having another symptom that I hadn't reported because I was a dumbass and this is the apocryphal frog boiling slowly thing. I was having fairly regular loose stool/diarrhea. if I had told my PCP that could I have gotten a referral to a gastroenterologist and gotten a less ass backwards diagnosis?

I hadn't told my PCP about loose stools for two reasons:

I didn't think it was relevant to the fatigue, and in fact, I still didn't think it was relevant when the rheumatologist called it, and I was really surprised when taking medication for IBD did actually turn out to help the fatigue

I knew I was lactose intolerant, so I thought it was already explained. However, the rheumatologist and I had this exchange:

Him: so do you still drink regular milk or just Lactaid?

Me: Lactaid

Him: then you shouldn't still be having diarrhea

Me:…

I can't remember the first med he started me on because I was only on it for a couple of weeks before we had to switch. (it helped a lot when I could tolerate it but about every three days I had to throw up and then I felt awful and didn't take the med for a couple of days and you can guess how that went.) the one that I went on long-term that actually worked without side effects for me was mesalamine/lialda. I also started experimenting with some dietary changes, the low FODMAP diet is intended for IBS not IBD, but you are still expected to have IBD triggers so I was playing around with that.

for a few weeks, I had incredible improving energy. It was crazy.

then I made what I can only now think of as a mistake in trying to be proactive about my care. because I had stumbled ass backwards into an IBD diagnosis and I felt like I should have gastroenterologist confirm it, and I went to go see my brother's gastroenterologist. he wanted to do a colonoscopy and he asked me to go off the mesalamine for six weeks so that he could see what my colon was like without treatment and it was the worst fucking six weeks of my life. Hated it. colonoscopy results: he didn't see anything fucking wrong and would not diagnose IBD or prescribe mesalamine based on what he found. I said, but the mesalamine improves my symptoms, what does that mean? He said, it means keep seeing your rheumatologist.

I went back to the rheumatologist and told him about the whole debacle with the gastroenterologist and he was like "so how did he explain your inflammation readings?" like CHECKMATE. And he concluded that any lesions I had must be in the small intestine, not the large intestine and so were not seen by colonoscopy.

I kept taking mesalamine. My improvement was slower after the break from it which sucks but I did get back to normal lab work within six months, hallelujah.

Follow up: MORE stuff that might have been avoided if I had gastroenterologist regularly, had gotten an IBD diagnosis from a gastroenterologist, or had mentioned my shitty symptoms in the immediate: the gallbladder bullshit this summer

I had my second round of covid in May and I didn't notice a lot of fatigue coming out of it, though I was more cautious with myself the second time around, but I was sort of holding my breath for what horrible nonsense is going to come out of this now? so then I had what I thought was a really bad case of Gerd that didn't go away for two weeks even though my Gerd usually resolves in like a day. I went to my PCP twice during this period and then ultimately ended up at the ER when I realized my pain was in my side not central anymore and I was worried about appendicitis. It wasn't appendicitis. It was my gallbladder. and it came out that night. overall, I am very happy with how the hospital handled the emergency for instance, I didn't realize until two weeks later that I seriously could've died because they were so calm about it the whole time but like they don't do same-day surgery unless death is on the line, let's be real.

but here's things that could have been helped if I had better gastroenterology care:

I didn't find this out until I was researching gallstones after the fact, and I would like to think a gastroenterologist would have warned me whereas the rheumatologist wasn't super aware of it but: IBD can lead to gallstones because one of the ways a cholesterol gallstone forms is, if you get an imbalance of bile and cholesterol in your gallbladder; your body wants to recycle bile by reabsorbing it at the end of your small intestine, but if you have IBD, sometimes it loses the bile instead of reabsorbing it, and then you get an overabundance of cholesterol, turning into a gallstone the size of a golf ball

I told my PCP it was a case of Gerd that wouldn't go away, but I didn't tell her I was also having diarrhea. Diarrhea is not a Gerd symptom. Maybe if I had just fucking told her she might've recognized or could've sent me to somebody who would have recognized it as a gallbladder symptom before it turned into an immediate emergency

tl;dr don't hide your gut symptoms from your doctor because you "think" you know what's wrong with your guts or that it's not related to your other problems or you're embarrassed or what the fuck ever just tell them that you're shitting yourself because it might turn out to be important

[briar--rising]

I have been successfully endoscopied and colonoscopied. And it's a good thing we did this, because they found a bunch of ulcers in my stomach and small intestine. They're going to do biopsies to see the cause/if I might have some kind of inflammatory bowel disease or something. So this whole process has really sucked but it seems like it might have been necessary.

[hiddenbeks]

i love. having ibd

[performing-personhood]

Me: ahhh another day. Gonna Get Some Stuff Done!

My trash fire body: Cool, coolcoolcool. Here is what we are actually doing today though. [Pushes a button on an earpiece] Tower this is ground control. Scramble the intestines, we are Go for sweaty cramping.

[thatchronicfeeling]

ME

I am severely ill with chronic illness.

OPTICIAN

Tell me more.

DENTIST

Here are some things that might make it a bit easier to look after your teeth. What do you think?

NURSE

Yes, we’ve got a note of that on your file. Let’s work around your needs.

ME

I am severely ill with chronic illness.

DOCTOR

No you’re not.

ME (baffled at first, then incredibly frustrated but remaining polite, calm and keeping things professional) 

...as you will see on my medical record, I have X and Y diagnoses. These are the symptoms I am dealing with (lists extremely disabling symptoms).

DOCTOR (angry, making no attempt to hide it)

What the fuck do you expect *me* to do about it?

[maidofmetal]

lol so I ate a bunch of shit I shouldn't have yesterday (chimichanga, giant chocolate chips cooked, chibatta cheesesteak sammich completely with onions tomatoes cheese n beef) and (was dizzy n super nauseas all day) but then after the sammich I immediately got very sick; nauseas dizzy n had a headache n felt sweaty n got chills n vomited then about an hour later my intestines felt like they were turning to stone/ swelling / being stabbed with knives in various parts of my tummy but my gastroenterologist thinks my problem is because I smoke weed everyday 😵‍💫🤢😷😭😵‍💫🤢🤮😷😭😵‍💫🤮🤢😷😭😵‍💫🤮🤢😷😵‍💫😭😷😵‍💫🤢🤮😵‍💫😭😵‍💫🥶🤮😵‍💫😤😵‍💫😭😵‍💫

anyways on having very confusing GI symptoms iv been told it might be stomach ulcers, a kidney infection, gallstones, or IBD. I'm nauseas n exhausted n it used to be I only got sick with bad foods but now I'm basically nauseas all the time. tests have been pretty clear so far:/// like I got an bloodwork, ultrasound, ct scan and a MRI. I had an endoscopy (have a colonoscopy scheduled in the next few weeks) n my jerk of a gastroenterologists says that he saw gastric erosion but that that wouldn't cause my symptoms :(((((

my partner and I think it's crohns but my bloodwork came back fine so idk but I'm exhausted and felt so fucking invalidated when my gastroenterologists said it was because I smoke everyday and he wouldn't even listen when I was asking about my symptoms n shit. like after everything iv gone through this entire year with my stomach I sat in front of him CRYING and he fucking seemed irritated

don't think many people will read this but if you've gotten this far n have any ideas as to what might help me/ what it could be lmk. ima try to get a second opinion but :///////

[mothjinxed]

for a day or two i was starting to get better but my health crashed down again today, i've been nothing but a withering and crying mess and my pain medication isn't helping 🫠 ahhh

[pelipper]

It's infusion time, let's gooo! 💉❤️‍🔥

[consolecadet]

I've been so gastrointestinally sick all day, but not in the usual way. I just feel really inflamed and sore. Really hoping this is just a thing that sometimes happens to anyone, and not a sign of a serious new illness

[agayconcept]

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[charlattehotte]

waiting on tumblr to undelete my chronic illess blog (i deleted an entirely different sideblog and it just??? took another one down with it??) so yall get this information but i dare my dr to look at this and be like "oh no you're not FLARING it's FINE"

[samreensway]

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY STATION OF ULCERATIVE COLITIS 

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[ancientwell]

aanybody else ever go down an absolute rabbit hole about biologic treatment and the effectiveness of green tea on the symptoms of their disease at 12am

[lawfullyhopeful]