My most recent colonoscopy, three weeks ago, was mostly good, showing only slight inflammation. I just received the results of the biopsies taken and those results were negative. So all good there.
But about two weeks before the colonoscopy I caught a cold. My symptoms were mild and I was recovering from the cold, but then I developed a sinus infection that lingered a long time. About that same time, my stool became a little more mushy and I started having a few extra trips to the bathroom. This continued getting worse over a two week period, so I upped my mesalamine from one pill to two. After about ten days, my stool seems to be solidifying again. I'll stay on the two mesalamine pills (in addition to the one Rinvoq pill) for another two weeks and then if all is going well, drop back to one.
I'm not sure why I started having problems again. I'm assuming it had something to do with my body fighting off the cold and sinus infection, but I've had colds before without any problems. But nothing else changed. Part of the fun of this condition is that there is not always a rhyme or reason to why symptoms come or go.
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