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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... | 1046 |
66% |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrom... | 44 |
64% |
| Diverticulitis | 2 |
100% |
| Depression - Teen | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 66% (1093
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Asacol Reviews
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Was put on this in 2004 and have been on it ever since. I don't know if it helps or not, waiting to get stable enough to see if removing it makes a difference.
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Worked for a while but switched to lialda
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Was used as a maintenance drug...not really sure if it worked
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Didn't work
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I dont think that there is any side effect to this medication.
I am careless and often stop the medication without telling my doctor. When I feel bad I start taking Asacol with prednisone and it works in 3 days.
I am careless and often stop the medication without telling my doctor. When I feel bad I start taking Asacol with prednisone and it works in 3 days.
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Just started Mesalazine granuals. Having Mesalazine supposotries to stop the blleeding.
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I started taking Mesalazine just before I was diagnosed, which was about Nov 2005. It works ok for me I think, but I'm not sure if it can keep the UC at bay without the help of Predfoam enemas (prednisolone). I think it causes bad acne and a puffyface.
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used to work. Not any more
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Currently taking 500mg of Pentasa three times a day as maintenance, it's working quite well, I believe.
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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]
