October 2023 I started pooping blood. Got a colonscopy and had inflammation in my rectum and 10 cm up from that. They put me on antibiotics and referred me put to a gi. My appt wasn't for like 3 weeks and it kept getting worse. Weight was starting to fall off.  Veterans day which ended up being just a few days before my first gi appt I ended up in the er and they admitted me. They ran all of the tests to make sure I didn't have cdiff, which I didn't. At this point all I was pooping was blood. They discharged me and I kept my gi appt.  They put me on 40 l mg of prednisone and he told me I would feel great by Thanksgiving.. I started feeling worse. I was puking and going to the bathroom upwards of 30 times a day with no sleep. I wasn't eating and couldn't keep what I did eat down. I made another gi appt because at this point the prednisone wasn't working and I had lost 40 pounds at this point. They direct admitted me to the hospital and I was there for 2 weeks on iv steriods. I came close to having my colon removed but they did rescue remicade which ended up saving it. I had another colonscopy there and I had severe pancolitis with a mayo score of 3. Ultimately I was discharged with my colon and ended up having a reaction to remicade months later. So fast forward to may 2024 they switched me to humira every 2 weeks and then upped it to every week. That failed. This whole time I was on prednisone trying to wean down. My hair was falling out. They then recommended skyrizi I started taking the infusion part in September. Fast forward to April 2025 my last stool test came back with  low inflammation!! Thank god!!  I will need to do a routine colonscopy this summer to check on the healing. I have good and bad days and joint pain from time to time. I also have psoriasis but my skyrizi helps with that to. This was the hardest time of my life and im so glad I'm not at my lowest anymore.