2025-09-19
28 分钟I moved to Korea in November of 1993.
I immediately was having symptoms within a month.
I thought it was because I was eating new Korean food and I like spicy food.
And I had rectal bleeding and I was like, I need to, you know,
curtail some of that spicy food eating, which wasn't logical, but still, you know, I'm stupid.
I was young, whatever.
I was making up why this was happening to me.
Sunny Anderson was just 18 years old when she started experiencing painful,
persistent abdominal cramps, bloody stool, and sudden, urgent bowel movements.
You start saying to yourself, something different is happening here.
And those symptoms altogether made me say to myself, this isn't right.
After a couple of things weren't working all in concert,
I was like, all right, I got to talk to someone about this.
I'm Dr. Nicole Kulasek, a pediatric gastroenterologist and the U.S.
Gastroenterology Medical Lead at Pfizer.
Welcome to this special episode on the Pfizer Women's Health Channel all about ulcerative colitis.
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the two most common types of inflammatory bowel disease that cause inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.
Ulcerative colitis, or UC, is the most common,
affecting an estimated 1.25 million people in the United States.
UC is a chronic relapsing and remitting condition, meaning symptoms come and go,