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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... | 673 |
65% |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrom... | 35 |
63% |
| Diverticulitis | 1 |
100% |
| Depression - Teen | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 65% (710
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Asacol Reviews
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It is working alright so far.
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din't work. gained 60 lbs.
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Pentasa is working well. Been on it now for 2 months. I still take 15 pills per day. Side effects haven't been bad but there are days where I'm really exhausted .
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at least it seems to be working .i have been on it for 5 weeks and am feeling alot better. i am wondering tho if it is causing a rash i have newly developed. has anyone else had a sideeffect like this?
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guess its working
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Been on this since the beginning, I guess it works
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Had a side effect when joining pentasa with my medication for epilepsy (tegretol). Taking either one separately i.e. not on the same day was fine but I needed to take both twice daily. For a few hours per day I would have double vision. The result is now I have been took off pentasa as it probably wouldn't work anyway.
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worked for a while - the crohns became worse.
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pentasa is helping me for 6 months now
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still on it and it works.
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I'm trying it again so we will see if it works. I think it is.
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Not even sure if it works right now.Because I still have bloody watery diarea in the morning and I'm still bloaded & lot's of gas.What is it supposed to do?
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Only taking asacol daily now. In remission right now
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Was on Pentasa for 12 years, seemed to work for a long time but within the last year or two my symptoms have worsened and my Crohn's Disease has spread to another area of my intestines.
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I used these in the beginning but I would rather take a pill than use a suppositories.
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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]
