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Hi,
As of last tuesday I started having abdominal pain right before a bowl movement. It is sharp and and lasts shortly. My bowl comes out formed but not as a whole rather in clumps after another. Sorry so gross! Also I feel gassy & bloated too.

History:

Been in remission since last year and have been doing well.

On 6MP
and Asacol

Take: Multi Vitamin

The symptoms were noticable after I ate Basic 4 cereal which now that I look at it has a lot of fiber. Also at work I have been snacking on peanuts and dried fruit. Something tells me these may play a part. I will stop these things to see if it helps.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be nice.

No food allergies I know of
and no journal...sadly but I do keep track in my head.

For me? More constant RLQ abdominal pain, then the Big D, rectal bleeding, & these days, mouth ulcers, fatique. If the flare is a bad one, cramps & dry heaves, & the ever popular fissures & various skin conditions.

Matthew

My BM's have been like that for almost a year now - formed kind of clumps, which I label as LBM's - loose bowel movements!

Since January, I believe I've been in a full flare as every BM has been like you described. Plus abdominal burning. Gas. Dry heaves/vomiting while having the LBM. The LBM's are waking me up in the middle of the night, too, which has made me tired, cranky, achy and just overall fatigued to the point of non-concentration.

I keep a daily food and bowel journal. Food never seems to be a culprit for my flares.

This is by far the longest flare I've had since being Dx...I'm TRYING to get an appointment with my GI BEFORE my regularly scheduled 6-month appt. with him in June. I just don't think I can wait any longer.

I'm HOPEFUL that my problem is simply SBBO - Small Bowel Bacteria Overgrowth. The last time I was this sick I was given amoxicillin/biaxin to clear up an HPylori bacteria and 6 months later I was given Flagyl to clear up any "excess" bacteria in the small bowel. After that, I went into remission for 4 years. Evidently, there's only suppose to be about 100,000 bacteria in your small intestine...more than that, and you'll get sick.

Hi,

 Thanks for all of your responses. I know that my symptoms are not as worse as when I had a full on flare last year.  I had an anal test done to see if there is microscopic blood in the stool and it came out negative.

I think because I am moving to Korea to teach english for a year I have been stressing out badly. I need take a chill pill and help my gut out.

I am taking some probiotics to see if that cleans things up a bit.

Still having boughts of pain before BMs but it comes and goes. Gas and bloating...I think these are signs of stress.

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