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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... | 1049 |
66% |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrom... | 44 |
64% |
| Diverticulitis | 2 |
100% |
| Depression - Teen | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 66% (1096
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Asacol Reviews
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only medicine that has worked for him.
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Was on Asacol for three months while I had the flareup.
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not good. i felt it was making my condition worse.
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It works to a point. Ask me, I'll tell you.
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taking 3 tablets 3 tmes a day
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Working perfectly.
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works, just cant keep up with taking em all the time sometimes
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i didnt notice much difference on and off asacol i just felt like they were just more pills to take
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Worked for awhile
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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]
