I have been on Septrin since I had a pretty severe pneumonia in September. I was taking one tablet three times a week. I stopped taking it about two weeks ago as I began to have abdominal pain and distension with diarrhoea.

I sometimes have sharp stabbing abdominal pain which can wake me up during the night, but its not constant and I've had this over several years. If my illness gets worse the pain gets worse.

These symptoms seem different though and I am tending to think it's caused by Septrin. After I had pneumonia my steroids were increased and I did feel better than I felt for a long time. However, when I started to reduce my prednisolone, I began to have some haemoptysis and chest pain and discomfort.

I had two doses of Rituximab in December 2017 , and had another one 10 days ago. Has anyone else had abdominal pain and diarrhoea with Septrin or is it just the Wegs. Interestingly I notice that my Wegener's never seems to go for everything at once. It'll either be targeting my lungs, my sinuses or my joints, but not usually all together!

I don't want to say anything about the abdominal symptoms in case they decide not to give me the next dose of Rituximab!

Hope this makes sense.

Best Wishes

Bloom