Ulcerative Colitis

Your Total-Body Ulcerative Colitis Check-In

Take these quizzes to learn whether you should change how you manage ulcerative colitis.
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Updated on February 18, 2025
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Pick an Area of Your Life You Want to Improve

Do You Need to Change Your UC Management Plan?

If you have ulcerative colitis, you might be wondering, Can life with IBD get better? or Is this as good as it gets? These are questions that many people with the condition ask themselves. Too often, it can be hard to determine the answer.

Ulcerative colitis can affect every part of your life, and self-care involves so much more than just picking up a prescription from your doctor. That’s why it’s important to take a moment to reflect and ask yourself how your overall health is — and where you might be able to make improvements.

To help you identify whether you need a change in treatment — or simply a renewed focus on other areas of your care — we’ve assembled these six assessments. They examine not only how much ulcerative colitis is affecting your health, stress, body image, and well-being, but also whether your treatment plan is working for you and how your food choices are affecting your health.

You don’t have to settle for “good enough” ulcerative colitis care. Check in with yourself and then schedule a checkup with your doctor to discuss the results.

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Yuying Luo, MD

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Yuying Luo, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai West and Morningside in New York City. She aims to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered, and holistic care for her patients.

Her clinical and research focus includes patients with disorders of gut-brain interaction such as irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia; patients with lower gastrointestinal motility (constipation) disorders and defecatory and anorectal disorders (such as dyssynergic defecation); and women’s gastrointestinal health.

She graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in molecular and cellular biology and received her MD from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she was also chief resident. She completed her gastroenterology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital and was also chief fellow.

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Maria Masters

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Maria Masters is a contributing editor and writer for Everyday Health and What to Expect, and she has held positions at Men's Health and Family Circle. Her work has appeared in Health, on Prevention.com, on MensJournal.com, and in HGTV Magazine, among numerous other print and digital publications.

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