Eshani Agrawal

Recently, a family member of mine mentioned that his gastroenterologist is retiring. Though this family member does not have Crohn's or UC, he has cultivated a relationship with this doctor...

When I think of the word "diagnosis," I get a sense of nagging anxiety, but also hope. With a diagnosis, there is the hope that you will receive the right...

My partner and I adopted our cat, Toomi Moo, about 2 years ago. My most recent flare started about 8 months ago, and it was Toomi's first experience with my...

To the average person, hearing about ulcerative colitis is disturbing. I'm used to all of it now – used to thinking about how many times I've used the bathroom and...

Most of us would love to take a medication and never experience any side effects. Who wants to deal with a skin rash or heightened energy or hair loss or...

I met Z in 2018 over a dating app where I hadn’t mentioned my ulcerative colitis on my profile. I liked him instantly and we met for a drink the...

In 2021, I started to flare worse than any flare I’d had previous to this. My body was not responding to my mesalamine at all and a strong course of...

About 4 years ago, I stopped taking my medications. I had been on mesalamine for my ulcerative colitis and had been in remission for about a year. I was in...

The first time I started taking rectal medications I used to go to the pharmacy and fill my whole backpack with boxes of enemas. These were mesalamine enemas and I...

When I started taking Humira a few months ago, I was assigned a Nurse Ambassador — I’ll call her S — who would focus on how I was feeling with...

For the last few months, my doctors were monitoring my hemoglobin levels, in case of anemia. Since I was bleeding from my ulcerative colitis flare, my care team really wanted...

Between my recent flare and the pandemic, my world has mostly become confined to my own apartment. While I’ve become more comfortable with the occasional eating outside at a restaurant...

Over the years I have gone back and forth with alcohol. There have been in times in my life when I drank heavily during remission and did okay with it...

When I was first experienced ulcerative colitis symptoms, I hid them from my family. On a visit home my parents figured out that something was wrong because I kept running...