Abdominal pain after bowel movements

I'm on rifaximin 3 times/day for 2 weeks in addition to my pentasa, Imuran and Entocort. Lately, I have severe abdominal pain in the umbilical region after a bm. Before using the bathroom, I'm fine until I have a bm. Pain would last for an hour or more; sometimes it's a burning sensation, other times it's a throbbing pain. I'm already in the middle of a flare up and the last thing I needed was a new type of pain.

CDASinCo, thank you. The last scope was in February 2014. Did you get a medicine that relieved this pain after you had your scope?

@minnie, it seems like you keep trying to treat individual things here and there, when really overall you won't be able to get better until you get into remission, which I don't think will happen until you are willing to try biologics. Please bring it up with your GI in your next visit. I get worried about your relationship with him sometimes - if it were a spouse, I'd worried you were in a controlling, abusive relationship. You always say, "I'll see what my GI says" and yet he never does much, but gets angry when you've tried to have your PCP treat you for anything, even if it's unrelated to Crohn's. You expect him to bring things up, like biologics in your last appointment, but when he didn't bring them up, you didn't either. I just am concerned about you.

I think Minnie has already said that she can't financially afford a biologic. Some of us don't have insurance coverage that makes a biologic feasible. I know some of you don't have to think about how much your medications cost because your insurance pays so well, but my BCBS reprices my drugs by knocking off maybe 5% of the retail and I have to pay the rest until I reach a large deductible and then they would cover 80%. For some of us, it's not a choice.