IMURAN Reviews (AZATHIOPRINE)Average Rating: 2.9 (526 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare IMURAN with similar:
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| 5 | Crohn's | None | Works great for me, have been pretty much symtom free for 3 yrs. I take it with pentasa and now only need blood tests every 3 months or so. I feel so good i now often forget that i have crohn's. | M | 29 | 3 years | 1/21/2007 | 5 | Crohns | None really | Imuran has worked well. Here's a warning to all who post on this board. If you put your email down beware of a snake oil salesman touting another bogus supplement called "Digestive Advantage". He will try to coerce you to buy their supposed cure-all from their website . | M | 34 | 2.5 years | 1/19/2007 | 5 | Crohn's Disease | Severe nausea/flu-like symptoms while adjusting to drug. Occasional nausea when taken on empty stomach. Increased healing time for cuts, etc. Increased succeptibility to infection. | Taking 100mg/day of Imuran in conjunction with 9 mg/day Entocort steroid (Budesonide) & Mesasal (5-ASA). Also take other medications to control Crohn's but those mentioned are the main ones. Have had Crohn's (most aggressive in terminal ileum)for 23 years with lots of complications, hospitalizations, TPN, surgeries including resections, severe and persistent small bowel obstructions, and major small bowel hemorrhaging. Imuran in conjunction with Entocort has helped tremendously--no hospitalizations for approx. 4 years. Also, no liver or pancreatic function abnormalities. Still have flare-ups, sub-acute occlusions, and really have to watch what I eat. No matter, the drug combo really improved the quality of my life and I'm back to work part time. It took 2 years for the Imuran to work for me whereas with most, it takes approx. 6 months. Don't give up! Severe malaise upon first starting so took 50mg/day for 5 days and worked my way up to 100mg/day which really helped. Note to all w | F | 40 | 6 years | 1/18/2007 | 5 | Ulcerative Colitis | Initially nausea & tiredness. Nausea controlled with medication. After about 6 months the nausea & tiredness subsided and nausea medication was ceased. Small amount of hair loss. | Imuran was like a miracle cure for me for 5 years. I was heading towards steriod dependency when we decided to try Imuran, which gave me 5 years of complete remission. That said, I have just had my worst ever flare up of UC, being hospitalised for the first time. The flare was triggered by a bad gastro virus. I am now taking prednisone plus an additional immunosuppressant to get it under control. The hope is to return to remission maintained by Imuran. And as a bonus, Imuran 'cured' my eczema! | F | 34 | 6 years | 1/15/2007 | 3 | ulcerative colitis | hair loss, stomach pains IFOUND A SOLUTION TO THE HAIR LOSS!!! | Wanted to tell everyone with hair loss to TRY TAKING MSM.available in most any health food store. I had bald spots and major thinning that filled in within about 2 weeks of taking MSM,1000 milligrams 2-3x per day. ALso, gained an inch in lenghth in a month. | F | 41 | 6 months | 1/12/2007 | 5 | Crohns | Hair loss for the first few months, but I'm not entirely convinced that Imuran was the cause. Occaisional joint pain, but again I'm not sure if the Imuran causes that either. | This is now my second posting on the Imuran board and I'm happy to say I'm just as well off as I was the first time over a year ago. Thanks to Imuran I have been symptom free for over two years with little or no side effects. I hope every other Crohns sufferer has as good of an experience as me if they do decide to take this drug. | M | 34 | 2.5 years | 1/9/2007 | 3 | Lupus | extreme extreme bloating that i am assuming is from the imuran, dry skin, extreme muscle and joint weakness. was nauseous and dizzy on 100mg was lowered to 50mg and that is better. | i am still taking 40mg of prednisone with the 50mg of imuran and i know prednisone has A LOT of its own side effects as well.. but the bloating has been horrible.. not sure if this is the Imuran or the prednisone but I have never had bloating with prednisone before. its horrible. would love to hear if others are experiencing this as well. please email me. | F | 28 | 4 weeks | 1/1/2007 | 5 | Crohn's | Minor hair loss, malaise+nausea @ 150mg QD(reduced medication from to 100mg QD. Succeptability to colds/flu (3 chest infections in last year). Easily treated w/ Cipro [don't bother with azithromycin (zithromax)] | I responded extremely well to initial Prednisone treatment (40mg QD). I continued to have a dramatic improvement following later treatment with Imuran. Has now been over a year since I was officially diagnosed . Now in complete remission and resume normal life. Extremely lucky w/ no surgery. | M | 24 | 12 months | 12/28/2006 | 1 | crohns disease | really bad stomach pains, pain under the ribs front and back. sleepless nights, felt really depresseed in tears most of the time. awful!! | took this for only six days felt so much better as soon as i stopped on drs advice. i felt so so poorly with this medication. obviously not for me. | F | 39 | 6 days | 11/30/2006 | 4 | autoimmune hepatitis | none overly adverse. I was much worse before I started treatment. Since I've started I have slight joint pain. Perhaps the drug contributes to my being tired but I think I would attribute that to my medical condition. Since I started treatment my liver enzymes are declining slowly but surely. | F | 29 | 1 years | 11/22/2006 | 1 | Crohns and UC | Took once (50mg), resulted in lower back pain, nausea and low blood pressure (constant passing out) within 8 hours. Required hospitalisation. Doc assumed to be due to a "gastric bug and dehydration" as "unlikely I would react so quickly to Imuran". Subsequent blood tests showed evidence of liver damage. 2 weeks later tried again (100mg). Within 8 hours extreme lower, mid-back, and neck pain, and headache - unable to move or even roll over in bed (or get to toilet - a problem with bowel disease...!) Blotchy rash on legs. Stomach bloat. Hospitalised again. Also hairloss, tiredness (when able to move again), loss of appetite and mental fuzziness. | It obviously does not work for me, a real pity. | F | 43 | 1 days | 11/18/2006 | 3 | ulcerative colitis | Began taking imuran with oral prednisone and remicade infusions for UC. No side effects when taking 150mg dose daily with prednisone. When prednisone discontinued, severe nausea, abdominal cramping and diarrhea within 1 hour of oral dosing. The doctor recommended that I stay on imuran to prevent my body from developing an immune resistance to the remicade. With his recommedation, I lowered the imuran dose to 25mg orally twice daily and stopped all the side effects. I have been on the 25mg dose twice daily for 1 year without side effects. | I am not sure how much effect the imuran had on the UC because of the simultaneous initiation of the remicade infusions. I experienced a dramatic response to the inital remicade infusion with complete resolution of UC symptoms in 10 days. After personal research, I attributed my dramatic response to the remicade infusions and answered prayer. My doctor plans to allow me to discontinue the remicade infusions after 2 years of remission but he wants me to continue the imuran. I would like to discontinue all medications if remission continues. I have drastically changed my diet after reading "The Maker's Diet" and I am hopeful the diet changes will help sustain the remission. | M | 44 | 16 months | 11/15/2006 | 3 | ulcerative colitis | No side effects when taking 150mg imuran oral dose with prednisone. When prednisone discontinued, experienced severe nausea, abdominal cramping and diarrhea within 1 hour of dosing. Doctor recommended remaining on imuran and lowering the dose to stop side effects. I lowered the dose to 25mg orally twice daily and have had no side effects since. | Imuran was started in conjunction with remicade infusions and while prednisone dose was being dropped; thus, I do not know how much of my response was due to the imuran. I experienced a dramatic response within 10 days of the remicade/imuran therapy. After further research, I attribute my dramatic response to the remicade and prayer. My doctor wants me to stay on a low dose of imuran to prevent my body from developing an immune resistance to the remicade. My doctor is gong to allow me to discontinue the remicade after 2 years of remission but he wants to continue the imuran therapy. I hope to discontinue all medication. I have changed my diet after reading the "The Maker's Diet" and I hope that the diet changes will sustain my remission. | M | 44 | 16 months | 11/15/2006 | 3 | ulcerative colitis | Began taking imuran with oral prednisone and remicade infusions for UC. No side effects when taking 150mg dose daily with prednisone. When prednisone discontinued, severe nausea, abdominal cramping and diarrhea within 1 hour of oral dosing. The doctor recommended that I stay on imuran to prevent my body from developing an immune resistance to the remicade. With his recommedation, I lowered the imuran dose to 25mg orally twice daily and stopped all the side effects. I have been on the 25mg dose twice daily for 1 year without side effects. | I am not sure how much effect the imuran had on the UC because of the simultaneous initiation of the remicade infusions. I experienced a dramatic response to the inital remicade infusion with complete resolution of UC symptoms in 10 days. After personal research, I attributed my dramatic response to the remicade infusions and answered prayer. My doctor plans to allow me to discontinue the remicade infusions after 2 years of remission but he wants me to continue the imuran. I would like to discontinue all medications if remission continues. I have drastically changed my diet after reading "The Maker's Diet" and I am hopeful the diet changes will help sustain the remission. | M | 44 | 16 months | 11/15/2006 | 4 | Ulcerative Colitis | I haven't had any real side effects except for extreme hairloss. It didn't start until about 3 months after I started taking it, but it won't stop. | If anyone has information about treating hairloss, or if their hair started growing back after a certain time period, I'd love to know! | F | 22 | 5 months | 11/6/2006 | 3 | Crohn - Intestinal obstruction | nausea, fatigue, no energy at all, depress | 1 or 2 pills, I had no major effect, 3 pills : nausea, and 4 pills : nausea, fatigue, no energy at all, depress. I switched on Purinethol because of the nausea and I of a blood anomaly | M | 28 | 60 days | 11/4/2006 | 3 | kidney transplant | boils on face that were called rosacia after being taken off they no longer occur | F | 42 | 21 years | 11/2/2006 | 5 | rheumatoid arthritis | nausea, muscle soreness | I now take it on a full stomach...after breakfast, after dinner. Onset of RA extremely painful. Dr. bombarded me with prednisone, then weened me off over 3 wks while introducing Imuran. Virtually pain free now/labs good/every 3 mos. Extremely pleased with results of Imuran. | F | 55 | 1 days | 10/27/2006 | 4 | Ulcerative colitis | Very tired a lot of the time but could be due to sleeping irregularities. | Started taking this to get off the Prednisolone of which i was taking 8 tabs a day! Am now off the steriods and take this drug along with Asacol. Seems to work as well as the Prednisolone. | M | 25 | 1.5 years | 10/23/2006 | 1 | UC | hairloss, depression, severe stomach pain | Imuran gave me stomach pain so severe that I was hospitalised via Emergency 4 times before someone finally figured out it was the Imuran making me sick. Came off the medication and have been fine since. Would not recommend it. | F | 21 | 4 months | 10/22/2006 |