UC diagnosis

Let's starts at the beginning - im 40 year old male who decided 2 years ago to stop drinking alcohol completely, stopped smoking and started vaping and go on a health kick, started eating really good doing exercise and loads of cold water therapy, November 2024 I started to notice mucus in my stool, so went to doctors dont think much came of it then but as the months went on it started to get worse with daily blood sometimes loads of it, was a very scary time for me I also experienced diarrhea for about 7 months and lost about 3 stone, thought I was literally dieing, after many test and doctors appointments I got diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, 3 different areas of my colon have inflammation with patches of ulcers, I'm actually still processing it and getting used to it and have only had 1 initial hospital appointment since the colonoscopy which was in July and my doctors never really done much about it usually was seeing a different doctor every time at my surgery and they just went off what the doctor that done my colonoscopy in July said to start me on Mesalazine which did really seem to work for me, I ended up starting some oral peptides on my own BPC-157 and KPV not really sure if they helped but I can defo absorb things better and have out some weight back on, from my initial hospital appointment in December the doctor has started me on granules once a day and rectal foam that I do at night, im hoping this reduces the inflammation and the daily blood im still getting, luckily im not getting diarrhoea at the moment as 7 months of that was brutal, I do have really sore hips all the time and my eyes are dry n itch and I have problems with my ears feel like the are closing over sometimes also skin is always itchy and im tired alot of the time and had major anxiety about going to toilet as I was on my health kick doing loads of walking was having to go outside in bushes just loads of anxiety about trying to do the toilet before leaving the hoyse to a point think I was squeezing to hard alot and had hemorrhoids which may have been causing some of the blood down there as sometimes there was loads now its just streaky through my stool, its been a really hard year very scary for me thinking alot worse a think the doctor said that was a good result from my colonoscopy considering my symptoms, so now I think I have accepted it and trying to do as much as I can to reduce inflammation in my body, not sure if me stopping drink and smoking and stuff has made my immune system get stronger and cause it to attack my own body, I have asthma and a couple other autoimmune things I feel like there are all kinda linked in some way ir another and certain foods can make them worse especially breads pastas dairy all that kind of stuff, im basically now trying to get my life back also stopped vaping 13 weeks ago just incase anything inside that was contributing to any inflammation in my body, I kinda feel like I was always gonna get this at some point, I've had stomach problems for about 20 years but never seen blood or had to go for tests I just put it down to ibs which my sister n brothers seem to have also but was easily managed with good diet, anyway that is all for now its been a scary year n hopefully 2026 I can try n get my life back the physical symptoms drfo cause mental problems over time aswell especially if you have had history of mental health problems, overthinking and anxiety so yeah its been a rough year. Anyone who has dealt with similar or has any input would be nice to hear from other people I feel like my family n friends n stuff dont quite get it and have since been isolating a bit more