Sorry to hear that your UC is hard to live with.

I was diagnosed nearly 4 years ago during my first flare, after I had a COVID-like illness.

I've been taking mesalazine ever since, and am grateful every day for another day without symptoms. I take mesalazine tablets daily, and mesalazine enema twice a week. (The latter is really not a big deal, once you've got used to it, and is apparently very effective at preventing flares. I started off doing them every day, and very slowly over the two years reduced to twice per week, which I can tolerate.)

I think I'll continue taking medication indefinitely, as for me it is not worth the risk coming off it.