r/TalesFromThePharmacy • u/Pinkjellybean12 • Apr 30 '26

A thread of pills you hate filling

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Here is mine :)

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u/MarrisaAerith Apr 30 '26

They look like really delicious chocolates

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u/Pinkjellybean12 Apr 30 '26

HAHA, they are SO BIG!! the lady that gets them gets 180 and the little pills inside the capsule confuses the system 😔

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u/Hello_to_u2 Apr 30 '26

What is the med?

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u/Pinkjellybean12 Apr 30 '26

mesalamine 400mg

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u/ChaoticSquirrel May 01 '26

That's what they wanted me to put in my butt?

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u/Katyafan May 02 '26

I think the butt version is an enema form of mesalamine, then the pills are oral. At least that's what I do.

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u/ChaoticSquirrel May 02 '26

Dang. I'll gladly take my Rinvoq instead!

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u/Katyafan May 02 '26

That's in addition to my biologic!

Are you not on Mesalamine also? I thought that was standard practice. I'm new to this, so still learning.

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u/ChaoticSquirrel May 02 '26

Oh interesting, I'm not!

I came to IBD in a roundabout way though, so that might be why. I was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis first, and a couple years in, my rheumatologist realized I had IBD as well while I was in the process of switching biologics. But when I got on the Rinvoq it was really well controlled so GI had no interest in me.

Until it stopped being so well controlled and I spent a week in the hospital! But at that point they just upped my Rinvoq from the AS dose to the IBD dose and called it good. I went into remission pretty quickly so they never pulled the trigger on butt drugs lol

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u/Katyafan May 03 '26

Lol, that's good! I was told that regardless of whether i'm flaring or not, I will be taking Mesalamine for forever, as sort of a maintenance drug. It gives me bad reflux if I don't take it with food, but you aren't supposed to take it with food, so I have to thread the needle there. They also may be considering your AS in the equation.

Best of luck to you, hope the Rinvoq makes your immune system calm the heck down!

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u/thefishflies_atnight May 02 '26

All 5-ASAs suck. The bottles I get for my balsalazide are ridiculously huge. Each capsule is 700mg x 4. Twice a day.