Darren Fletcher

[poyntonblue]

I know a lad who knows Darren, he's a belting lad by all accounts so I wish him a speedy recovery regardless.

My father in law knows him quite well and my Mrs has met him on a few occasions and like you've said he's a decent lad.

Good luck Darren.

 

[burning blue soul]

good luck to him, hopefully he will be back to full health soon. im not up on this condition, but is it looking like his playing days are over? is it an ongoing problem that will reappear time and again?

 

[blueinsa]

Best of luck to the lad as nobody deserves to suffer like he is.

 

[bobmcfc]

I have this and you wouldn't want it. It's painful, debilitating and worse. Blood tests every fortnight, enough pills to fill you up before breakfast and always the prospect that they don't work or stop working. I had 3 months of good health when I was first diagnosed and put on asacol and pred foam then it stopped working and I went downhill fast, pain, and nothing but passing pure blood upto 20 times a day.tired doesn't even come close and I thought I would be hospitalised in sep, I had to go on antibiotics just to get me to my next consultant appointment. Then I was put on 40mg of oral prednisolone which I took for 5 weeks with only slight improvement and I was still as tired as every and passing blood everyday. Doctor told me that I would need boilogical IV treatment remicade/infliximab as the next step because he believed me to be steroid refractory and decided to wean me off the prednisolone and start me on the immune suppressant imuran (which is used for transplant patients also) while I'm waiting for remicade. As luck would have it the immuran seemed to work like magic within two weeks I feel very close to normal again ( this week i feel normal, bellyache but I can deal with a little of that) I'm still on the steroids but can't come off them immediately because of withdrawal but fingers crossed I hope this works as long as possible before I go to the next step. After IV Treatment, surgery is the final option I'm told.
I'm on 13 tablets a day now to control it and have been diagnosed 8 months, the amount of medication is a worry too because of liver damage and stuff. ( been suffering at various degrees building about 4 years)


Anyway it's not nice, I don't know everything about my illness, sometimes I don't want to know everything as it takes over my life as it is. Autoimmune disease suck !lol

Hi Bob,
I have the same illness as this and your story sounds like a mirror image of mine, until the steroids kicked in.
Luckily the prednisolone worked, although as you say, you need to be weened off these gradually. It's twelve years since I was first diagnosed and I have had two separate bouts of it. Will still have to take the asacol for the rest of my life, and have the annual colonoscopy to look forward to.Like you say, the worst part is the fatigue and passing pure blood at any given time. Get well soon mate, and best wishes to Darren, whoever his allegiance is to.

Yes the poking and prodding and medication experimentation. I've had three colonoscopies/sigmoidosopies since may and at first asacol and pred foam worked great till a full colonoscopy put me in a really bad flair and I went 3 months of my doctor fobbing me off on a weekly basis before the blood got so bad, I took him a sample that shocked him and he put me on antibiotics, I went on oral steroids in late november and switched to me Mezavant xl 1200mg. Then jan 2nd my new GI consultant put me on imuran.my last one (sigmoidoscopy) was last week which showed remission had begun. This week has just been very good, the tiredness is reducing and I feel loads more energetic. Even with the pred I could take 8 tablet (my starting dose was 40mg tapering one 5mg tablet every 2 weeks) and then go to bed and sleep for 6 hours of the day. It did nothing for my energy levels and gave me a rash and and heart palpitations. I'm currently at 25mg and those symptoms have reduced to almost none so I can't wait to be off it. The problem people like us face is that fact we have to take drugs that are not only really powerful and can cause other problems like brittle bone, lymphoma and other nasties. they lower our immune system, leaving us open to infections and diseases that would risk our lives aswell. Lets not mention bowel tears and obstructions that could also put us in agony and risk of death.

It's a life of worry, embarrassment,pain, medication and uncertainty. And most people don't even know what ulcerative colitis is so you are constantly having to explain it to people as not enough is known, even my GPs are pretty clueless. Obviously a famous person having the condition will create more awareness which is at least one positive thing for us. (More research and funding)

Hope you get well, pred is a necessary evil for many people who suffer immune disorders. I hope you and I can get off it and still stay in remission. I'm kind of wary that the imuran and pred together could be working well or if I come off the pred I might have to up my imuran dose (eeek) or I might crash in a few weeks and be back to square one. I'm so bloody cynical with this illness lol.

 

[BlueMo']

do us a favour, anyone posting negative things about this lad and his illness please fuck off and post your bile elsewhere.just ignore this thread if you must.
i don't know the guy from adam but he's a man, a husband and probably a father, way more important than football regardless of who he plays for.

as pidge says trying to be a "super blue" is bollocks, i hate the rags more than anyone but that's the team itself, at the final whistle they become normal people just like me, like you and our own players.

good luck Darren.

I thought your Dot cotton thread was cruel and disrespectful to actress
June Brown MBE, 85yr old widow,mother and grandmother.
As for Fletcher i'm sure he'll get the best medical care available.

 

[Pigeonho]

do us a favour, anyone posting negative things about this lad and his illness please fuck off and post your bile elsewhere.just ignore this thread if you must.
i don't know the guy from adam but he's a man, a husband and probably a father, way more important than football regardless of who he plays for.

as pidge says trying to be a "super blue" is bollocks, i hate the rags more than anyone but that's the team itself, at the final whistle they become normal people just like me, like you and our own players.

good luck Darren.

I thought your Dot cotton thread was cruel and disrespectful to actress
June Brown MBE, 85yr old widow,mother and grandmother.
As for Fletcher i'm sure he'll get the best medical care available.

But the difference between De Niro making a comical thread about the most unfuckable woman in the world and people being thundercunts on this thread is massive.

 

[Bill]

do us a favour, anyone posting negative things about this lad and his illness please fuck off and post your bile elsewhere.just ignore this thread if you must.
i don't know the guy from adam but he's a man, a husband and probably a father, way more important than football regardless of who he plays for.

as pidge says trying to be a "super blue" is bollocks, i hate the rags more than anyone but that's the team itself, at the final whistle they become normal people just like me, like you and our own players.

good luck Darren.

I thought your Dot cotton thread was cruel and disrespectful to actress
June Brown MBE, 85yr old widow,mother and grandmother.
As for Fletcher i'm sure he'll get the best medical care available.

I think he'd rather be unfuckable.

 

[jimharri]

do us a favour, anyone posting negative things about this lad and his illness please fuck off and post your bile elsewhere.just ignore this thread if you must.
i don't know the guy from adam but he's a man, a husband and probably a father, way more important than football regardless of who he plays for.

as pidge says trying to be a "super blue" is bollocks, i hate the rags more than anyone but that's the team itself, at the final whistle they become normal people just like me, like you and our own players.

good luck Darren.

I thought your Dot cotton thread was cruel and disrespectful to actress
June Brown MBE, 85yr old widow,mother and grandmother.
As for Fletcher i'm sure he'll get the best medical care available.

But the difference between De Niro making a comical thread about the most unfuckable woman in the world and people being thundercunts on this thread is massive.

''Massive''?

*sniff sniff*

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I thought your Dot cotton thread was cruel and disrespectful to actress
June Brown MBE, 85yr old widow,mother and grandmother.
As for Fletcher i'm sure he'll get the best medical care available.

But the difference between De Niro making a comical thread about the most unfuckable woman in the world and people being thundercunts on this thread is massive.

''Massive''?

*sniff sniff*

Is someone trying to muscle in on my territory?

 

[r.soleofsalford]

But the difference between De Niro making a comical thread about the most unfuckable woman in the world and people being thundercunts on this thread is massive.

''Massive''?

*sniff sniff*

Is someone trying to muscle in on my territory?

Don't people who jump the queue piss you off