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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... | 1047 |
66% |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrom... | 44 |
64% |
| Diverticulitis | 2 |
100% |
| Depression - Teen | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 66% (1094
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Asacol Reviews
Working / Worked
annnoying to take so many pills a day and not really see any results
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working
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i take 14 tablets a day seems to be working. i get nausea from it though
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no seen side effects. takes because dr. wants him on anti-inflammatory
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Working / Worked
Decreased nausea, less cramping, less frequent need to defecate, better formed stools. Can't attribute any specific side effect to this medication. Doesn't prevent flares for me.
Working / Worked
Worked for a while, Doesnt seem to help withour predisone.
Working / Worked
started working after week.
Working / Worked
When I was first diagnosed with UC in 2006, I started taking Asacol (2 pills, 3 times per day) and they seemed to start working right away. However, it is now March of 2009 and I am having a flare up. My GI advised me to take 4 pills 3 times a day instead, but so far I am not noticing any improvements =[
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canasa works fast.
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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]
