u/Dear-Appointment-815

I've noticed for the last few days. I have excruciating hunger as if I havent eaten for twelve hours and its so distracting while im trying to study.

I make food and have enough that would usually fill me up but the pain worsens after I eat. When swallowing as well I feel something tighten and the pain worsens, and its like the food never reaches the bottom and the hunger never satiates. It only grows worse until I feel like I want to throw up and then it subsides an hour AFTER a meal. by two hours after a meal, I want to eat again.

I've been fluctuating between wanting to vomit, to gorge myself on 3 meals at once and having this strange pain all throughout.

Could it be pain in my transverse colon or is something else potentially going on? Is this a regular thing for UC?

I 20f was diagnosed in March after having an active flare since mid August 2025 that seemed to come out of nowhere.

Before my first scope, I SEEMED to be in remission as I was having formed stools and experiencing less pain, but I was battling as a student from the fatigue and brain fog caused by my body constantly being inflamed.

After scope, Im started on corticosteroids and mesalamine with calcium and vitamin D supplements and that seems to have been helping for overall symptoms management, but I was still experiencing some mild but annoying abdominal pain.

Fast foward a few weeks later and though I'm still having mostly formed stools, I'm having more severe abdominal pain from foods I used to be able to eat with no trouble.

Tomatoes are now completely out. Eating some resulted so far in the worst pain this disease has offered me thus far, when just a few weeks ago, I was able to eat it.

Its still not as bad as it was in December and January where eating butter, meat, jam, cheese, bread, olive oil, among other things caused me to have bloody diarrhea.

At this point, I've seen a dietitian and that has helped severely with my fatigue and energy, I managed to gain some muscle back and it seems to be moving in a positive direction but I fear if I go off my steroids which im currently being tapered off of, I'm going to be back in a position where my body refuses to hold anything and its tolerance of food will change like the seasons.

I worry that once I go off, the foods I have been able to eat to try and build myself up again with are going to be intolerable again.

I'm so afraid to try things to find out if I can have them for fear of making myself worse and having to face the facts that I'm definitely not really in remission as I'd hoped I was.

Sorry for how disorganized this is, I've just been incredibly frustrated and concerned.