Balsalazide anybody?
Van Chocstraw
else go through that?
Rufus
> Been on it three weeks now. Constant diarrhea. Have to stop it. Anybody
> else go through that?
I've been on it for about 2.5 years now - 9 per day...I had some initial
diarrhea during the first six months or so - nothing severe enough to
make me have to stop it; now I'm regular at about once/twice per day. I
get some headache - generally if I'm late on a dose, or sometimes after
eating some foods - I'm also on Protonix as a PPI, both carry headache
as possible side effects.
It can make me a bit gassy; I can control it with diet, and have also
found that a glass of red wine every night with my dinner helps keep
both diarrhea and spasms under control for me. I usually get diarrhea
when I'm having spasms.
My biggest complaint is insomnia - it was far worse with Asacol, better
on Balsalazide, but not sleeping deeply or straight through the night.
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- Rufus
Van Chocstraw
I had no problem with Asacol except with the price $250.00 co-pay per
month. Balsalazide co-pay is $15.00
Rufus
I started Colozal before the generic Balsalazide came out - I was paying
on the order of $480/month for Colozal, where I'd only been paying about
$35/month for Asacol...now I pay around $15/month or less for my
Balsalazide.
I seriously had to switch...Asacol was robbing me of so much sleep I was
starting to walk into things and to hallucinate. I even spent a night
in a sleep lab. Stuff simply does not agree with my CNS.
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- Rufus
Vanny
or www.rxlist.com for further information, side-effects and drug
interactions. You might also identify an alternative formulation, which you
tolerate better.
My biggest problem when I was on 5-ASAs was with headaches, dizziness and
intestinal blockages due to ileal Crohn's and stenoses.
http://www.drugs.com/cons/balsalazide.html
A further problem with tablet medications is that many contain lactose as a
bulking agent and lactose intolerant patients (depending on degree of
intolerance) end up with diarrhoea and wind because of this. I have a
secondary lactose intolerance due to multiple operations and can tolerate
the small amount in hard cheese and yoghurt, but do not drink milk.
Have you considered the foam enemas as an alternative?
http://www.drugs.com/search.php?searchterm=5-ASA%20enema&is_main_search=1 Of
course, this would only really be suitable if the inflammation was confined
to the transverse and/or descending colon and/or rectum. It would be useless
for upper GI inflammation and inflammation of the ascending colon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_%28anatomy%29 Alternatively, there are
5-ASA suppositories, IMHO, only really suitable for rectal inflammation and
possibly part of the descending colon.
http://www.drugs.com/cons/pms-asa-suppository-adult.html
I hope that you find something that suits you. From what I have gleaned from
conversations here, if you can't afford the copayments then most
pharmaceutical companies in the USA have some sort of budget set aside to
help patients with low incomes.
Vanny
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