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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... | 1045 |
66% |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrom... | 44 |
64% |
| Diverticulitis | 2 |
100% |
| Depression - Teen | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 66% (1092
Members)
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Asacol Reviews
Working / Worked
It kept things at bay for two years. I have not had any major flare ups (that landed me in the hospital) since the first flare up in 2004.
Working / Worked
not sure if it helped, but I had severe joint pain so I was changed to a systemic drug- salazopyrin
Working / Worked
Stopped. Could not afford it.
Working / Worked
It helps. It doesn't stop me from having flares at all but it does help me to not have so many. That's good.
Working / Worked
Diagnosed with UC from 4/2008...
Working / Worked
Did not work for me at all. Constant diarrhea, cramping, bloody stools, proctitis, ended up in ER then another colonoscopy, also had c-diff....very sick for a year, slowed down to 5-6 stools a day is all then things worsened.
Working / Worked
so far so good. I have been pretty tired though...
Working / Worked
Im not sure yet but Im hopeful
Working / Worked
Pentesa worked well for eight years.
Working / Worked
Seems to be working
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Canasa
i was on that stuff for a few days and had major cramps and it seemed to make everything worse. UGH. Canasa I think is in the family of mesalamin... [More] -
Asacol?
Hi there Search previous discussions too on Asacol (pentasa another name for the oral form and Rowasa for the rectal form. You can search it in the ... [More] -
Asacol?
I was on Asacol for almost 15 years--most recent dosage was 2 pills, 4x/d. It worked fine for me until the inflammation moved higher in my colon ... [More] -
Recently diagnosed
Here is a bit of the research I did: Types of Therapy (in order of usual application) 1) 5-ASA Agents (sulfa free agents have reduced side effect... [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]
