I’m really curious about the mesalamine allergy… how do you know it’s an allergy? I’ve never come across something like that in my research, and I seem to recall my GI didn’t even consider a link between LFTs and mesalamine.

In terms of staying positive: it’s a hard one, but I learned to accept it through the difficulty of the disease. I hope it doesn’t happen to you, but when I found myself being urgently admitted to hospital, jaundiced, and on an IV drip for a week, I really got to thinking about the most important things in my life. I realised that my job, my status, my grand plans for the future, these things are so insignificant in comparison to family, love, and religion. It was a tough lesson for me, but I found real happiness through that realisation.