How many days until you decide it's a flare?

After being in remission for 5 years, how many days of 5-10x/day pure liquid D would you go before calling the GI? I'm on day 4. It could just be a bug, right??

Not vomiting, but never did with my first flare (I've only had one-lasted about 6 months). Pain comes and goes, but tolerable. I'm on an all-protein diet (trying to lose weight) and exercising daily. Today is the first day I've skipped the gym, but it's the D as well as a cold I'm struggling with. So definitely mild...but I'd hate for it to get severe.

I just remembered something else-I had a blood panel done about 3 weeks ago to check my cholesterol and stuff and my WBC was slightly elevated. The doc said it wasn't high enough to cause concern, but she doesn't know about my history.

If your whites are elevated, you need to let your doc know about whats going on. If you have a history of bowel disease then you could be having an exacerbation of some sort. Don't wait too long or it could get worse very quickly and suddenly. It could be a bug, maybe nothing at all. But just go to the doc and give yourself pice of mind! Advice: Once you have this under control it may be prudent to see a GI specialist and then nutritionist to make sure that you are on the right diet and not eating anything that you may have an allergy to. Good luck and hope you feel well.

Flares/remission can vary for everyone and for each flare (not all flares are necessarily the same each time) I've had 4 GI's tell me that flares/remission can last from a day to yrs.

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I now see that you've said you have elevated white count then I would call your doctor, if not today, then definetly tom, ont he 5th day. I wouldnt wait much longer, usually means your body is 'fighting something off' but as you know in us crohnies usually means we're flaring, hence the immuno-suppresents for us to keep down those anti-bodies and such being made to fight imaginary illnesses that we really dont have the body just thinks we have. So bottom line is you should call. I find that amazing you dont vomit even when you flare. I immediatly cant keep anything down, no vomiting and I cant keep down water even , so definetly no food will stay down. I have very watery ostomy, vomiting severe pain obviously dehydrated just very miserable and mine do not and will not get better, until I ATLEAST get an ER visit, more then often I have to be admitted, to get fluids, get pain under control, usually my nasuea is under control by time I leave the ER but the pain is still great and dehydrated and all so they admit me and get that under control give me salumedral(IV prednisone) to get the under lying causes of inflammation getting better and monitor my meals and such on what I can handle. I just gotta give it to you, no vomiting it great, doesnt mean your flares arent bad to you, just I would love to not vomit when I flare, to me that would keep me out of the hospital quite a bit if I coudl just not vomit.

As long as I'm not having a obstruction, I don't do anything other than skipping a meal or 2 and eating a lot less than normal. Seems to work alright.

Ok, I'm heading to my pdoc right now for a possible sinus infection or cold or something. I'll have them check my WBC again (it's been 3 weeks) and see if there's been a change.

She didn't know I had Crohn's (I started seeing her after I went into remission) so she drew blood and ordered a CBC panel and sed rate. It will probably be a week (they send it out). If that comes back bad, I'll find a GI, I guess. Maybe by the time it comes back, the diarrhea will be gone. I can hope...

I'm not holding out much hope. I'm on day 9 and it's getting worse. I've gone from a couple times a day (with the exception of the first few days) to where I am today-11am and have gone 5 times so far. And I'm remembering how much I HATE this disease. On the way to the store, I had to turn around and fly back to the house. Then as soon as getting to the store finally, I had to immediately go to the restroom. I haven't gotten the blood tests back yet. I'm not sure what to do if they come back normal. See a GI anyway? I mean, a bug or eating something bad wouldn't last for 9 days. The pain is getting more frequent, but still not constant. Yet. I've been nauseous almost constantly the past 2-3 days. I don't want to wait until it gets reallllly bad to figure out it's a flare and have it get out of control.

Last time, my small bowel was fine except at the very end. Most of the disease was in the first 1/3 of my large bowel.