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(also known as Mesalazine, Pentasa, Canasa, Rowasa)
Mesalamine is used to treat inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis. It works inside the bowel by helping to reduce the inflammation and other symptoms of the disease.
Mesalamine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
Once a medicine has been approved for marketing for a certai... continue
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Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Crohn's Disease & Ulcer... | 607 |
66% |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrom... | 30 |
57% |
| Diverticulitis | 1 |
100% |
| Depression - Teen | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 65% (639
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Asacol Reviews
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It did work for a little while
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Seems to be working ok. But not sure...
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I was on this drug for a few yearsin the early 2000s.
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I first took the pill form which gave me bad cramping pain. I now use one suppository a night.
Helps to control Chron's sympsoms to a large degree.
Helps to control Chron's sympsoms to a large degree.
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Working I guess
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started working the second day that I was on this. makes my pain a lot better and changed my stool to almost regular
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It worked really well for maintaning my remission
Side effects: hair loss
I had a very rare reaction to it, It dropped my platletts and so I had to be taken off of it... I just got put back on it again, very nervous >.
Side effects: hair loss
I had a very rare reaction to it, It dropped my platletts and so I had to be taken off of it... I just got put back on it again, very nervous >.
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Working / Worked
Used it 5 years ago and it put the colitis in remission for 4 years.
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Old school UC medication that works for me.
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gave me stomach problems and didnt help my fistula so i stopped taking
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cypro
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It helped to keep the colitis attcks at bay somewhat
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Discussions
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Pentasa?
You can break it up, but it will lose some of its efficacy. It says Pentasa CR for a reason. The shell is for Controlled Release. It gets to your ... [More] -
Pentasa vs. Asacol
Pentasa is more geared towards Crohn's patients because it releases the medicine in the ileum. Asacol tends to release in the colon. Depending one w... [More] -
Pentasa vs. Asacol
I have been on Pentasa since I was first diagnosed. It has worked for me wonderfully. I know that at first my GI tried Asacol on me but wasn't havin... [More] -
Pentasa vs. Asacol
Hello there, everyone, I just wanted to ask if anyone had any feedback on the effectiveness of Pentasa vs. Asacol. I'm curious if Pentasa has been ... [More] -
Costly Pentasa?
Pentasa is asacol....has soo many different names...my crohns docs call it asacol but at the GP's for repeat prescription they say whats that one im l... [More]
