Bloody mucus

Sounds like it is likely to be proctitis. Many people with Crohn's have it, and it's best treated with rectal mesalamines. sorry!

oh, sorry.

Proctitis is inflammation in the rectum. Mesalamines are a family of drugs commonly used in treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease. They are also sometimes called 5-ASAs. They are the safest choice among the catalog of IBD treatments because they rarely cause negative side effects. Unfortunately, they are the least likely to induce remission. Many people get put on oral mesalamines along with prednisone -the pred induces remission, and the mesalamines maintain the remission.

Proctitis is difficult to treat with oral medications. The rectum is at the very very end of the colon and most oral medications will not reach there effectively. The most successful way to get rid of inflammation in the rectum is to treat with rectal mesalamines. Depending on how much (length-wise) is inflamed, you can use suppositories or enemas. The enemas treat all the way into the sigmoid colon.

Sickmama, have you been taking any meds? It's been a while since you posted and I have forgotten what decisions you've made. You need to call your DR and tell them about this latest development.

My first diagnosis was ulcerative proctitis so I'm very familiar with the bloodly mucous thing. It really needs to be treated.

You are going to have to decide to pursue treatment, it's not going to go away by itself. Denial is a useful tool for many adult situations but pooping bloody mucous is not one of them.

I'm so sorry to hear about your great great grandmother. I am sure that she would want you to be healthy, as we on the forum do too. Call the DR back and insist on being seen on an "emergency basis."

Do a search on this forum for proctitis and you can see how many different ways rectal inflammation can go wrong. I'd guess the worst would be rectal cancer (that would be years of untreated chronic inflammation, end result being you have to have your rectum removed). Probably next in line would be rectal strictures, which cannot be repaired surgically so you have to go in every 6 months or so to have your rectum stretched. That sounds like fun. The next least awful problem with untreated rectal inflammation is rectal incontinence and urgency and frequent trips to the toilet so you can expel blobs of bloody mucous.

No one here is calling you stupid. I am calling you out on your denial, though. It's not like you're the only person who's ever used that strategy with this disease. I think we all do it to some extent at some point. When you decide to get off that plan we'll still be here to guide you.