Posted 4/13/2015 8:16 PM (GMT 0)
Hello
I was wondering if someone can help me. I have had CD (limited to colon) for over 25 years. Every so often (including now), I see blood when I have a BM. It is on the paper and in the bowl, and I think I can sometimes feel it leaking out while I am on the bowl. The color is, for the most part, bright red. I do not have D, and I am going only once or twice per day. In fact, I am thinking that part of the cause is that I have had to strain recently to get some stool out. I do not have any "typical" CD symptoms along with this (no abdominal pain), so I am wondering whether this is a CD flare or a 'roid. My last annual colonoscopy was in mid-December, and it looked fine, but the biopsy reports indicated mild CD in some parts of the colon and moderate CD in other parts of the colon.
I guess my question is a fairly common one with CD patients - whether this recent bleeding is more likely CD, a 'roid, or something worse (I hope not). Any info about this topic would be appreciated.
Remicade
6MP
Partial colectomy in 1998