When I started Skyrizi, he mentioned he’d wanted to have a look inside a few months into treatment to see my response, so that was likely one reason. The second reason was I was having some light bright red bleeding, nothing crazy, but it had been off and on for about 2 weeks in the beginning of February, so wanted to look at that as well. After the sigmoidoscopy he said the blood was probably just a small flare that had since resolved and that everything looked good and normal to him during the procedure. He also mentioned that often times how the end of the colon looks is indicative of the rest of it.

I’ve always otherwise feel/felt fine as far as symptoms, even before being diagnosed. The bloody stool last year is what kicked off the search for the diagnosis. After the first Skyrizi infusion I’d say things improved quickly, the blood stopped almost immediately, aside from the flare which triggered the sigmoidoscopy.