DEAR DR. GOTT: I am hoping you can give me some information about the treatment for colitis. I am a 49-year-old woman. Twenty-two years ago I was diagnosed with lupus which I kept under control with 5 mg of prednisone daily. After the birth of my son 10 years ago, I developed hypothyroidism and now take 100 mcg of Levoxyl daily.
My current rheumatologist thinks that my lupus is actually an undetermined autoimmune disease which has probably caused my thyroid problem and now the colitis that I’m struggling with which seems to be getting worse. I’ve been hospitalized twice because of it in the past five years. I am currently taking 10 mg of prednisone daily to try to keep it under control but my gastro doctor wants to get me off it completely because I have been taking it for so many years. This is where my problem comes in. I have tried sulfasalazine, Entocort and azathioprine to [Read more...]