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Posted 7/17/2008 12:12 AM (GMT 0)
Hi all~

Wondering if anyone can tell me if this has to do w/ uc. 

1st of all, newly diagnosed w/ uc- taking Asacol 3x day + Canasa supp.  at night)

not sure how much of colon yet.  Anyway, feeling much better since taking meds finally,

but i have always been a thin person, and since symptoms appeared, am looking almost pregnant

at times...Does anyone esle ever feel like this, or am I just getting fat?  I do eat pretty healthy.... but chocolate is such a good treat :)

any help would be great    

Posted 7/17/2008 12:20 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, me too.  I have been asked a few times if I was pregnant.  I am still trying to get my doc to fill in more of the questions of why I have the swollen belly syndrome.  I hope this helps to know you are not alone.......

Posted 7/17/2008 12:40 AM (GMT 0)
I have days when I also look preg. and other days my tummy is flat like it should be. I get bloated belly when I eat certain things. so I figure that is what mine is.
Posted 7/17/2008 2:07 AM (GMT 0)
You are not alone!! I am a skinny person myself and also get a swollen belly!! I find after I eat pork, or pastas or cheeses... I get that prego look!! When I think back.. there was a time when I was in my first year of High School and I thought I may have even been pregnant because of my belly !! I even took pregnancy tests!! I guess I was just swollen.. that was long before I was ever diagnosed so maybe I had colitis as far back as then... hmmmm....
Posted 7/17/2008 2:15 AM (GMT 0)
You are not alone. I am and have always been a thin person. But recently i definitely have that baby belly going on and I don't know how to get rid of it. I am also in my early 20s and look much younger and get some dirty looks. I wonder if its Asacol? I used to take Salofalk and my stomach didn't look like it does now. Im also finally losing all the water from prednisone, and maybe the tummy is the last to go?? Ye I don't know...but I do know that your not alone :)
Posted 7/17/2008 2:45 AM (GMT 0)
I've had this problem since I was a kid. I'm skinny and my belly always sticks out after I eat. If I haven't eaten in a while or have had a bout of diarrhea, it's completely flat. I've been doing crunches almost everyday--I'm not sure if it's helping yet but I'm going to try anyway.

Posted 7/17/2008 3:09 AM (GMT 0)

i have had the belly problem since i was diagnosed eyes

Posted 7/17/2008 12:36 PM (GMT 0)
thanks for all the replys.. glad to know I'm not the only one... it does seem to be flatter in the morning, and bigger in the evening... I'll have to monitor it to see if certain foods make it worse.... maybe get motivated to do some crunches too:)
Posted 10/7/2011 10:10 PM (GMT 0)
Hi I'm new to this as well as just been diagnosed with UC...I look like I'm 6 mths prego by early afternoon...I got out of the hospital this past Monday after a 5 day stay with the only answer being I have severe UC. My entire colon is ulcerative and my cecum has erosion....what does this all mean??? My belly gets so big I have a hard time breathing but in the morning it's down, not all the way but enough to function. I don't have the diarrhea like others, I'm constipated for the most part...although I do have the semi loose stools only 1 time a day in the am. My gastro has me on 4 Apriso once a day and I don't go for my check up till the 18th...any ideas what I'm going thru and how do I deal without taking antidepressants which I don't want to do but I'm getting very depressed!
Posted 10/8/2011 2:22 AM (GMT 0)
swollen belly can be caused by gas, constipation, or swelling of the colon. i've had it happen due to all 3. i've been accused of being pregnant many many times, once by a nurse in a hospital who accused me of trying to kill my baby with my birth control and i kept telling her to go look at my ultrasound from the week before because there was no baby there and it was a physical impossibility (i was about 15)! hope this helps.
Posted 10/8/2011 6:10 AM (GMT 0)
I've had UC since 1997 and have always looked pregnant since then. I even get asked when I'm due. I attribute it to the severe inflammation. Who knows. So much of this disease is still a mystery.
Posted 10/8/2011 7:51 AM (GMT 0)
LOL I've never been a skinny person and now I finally have an excuse for my bloated belly. smilewinkgrin
Posted 10/8/2011 11:13 AM (GMT 0)
kjea74,

am looking almost pregnant at times...

Yes, it's the UC and for many it's IBS. I used to look like that all the time, and it has to do with food combining. If you miscombine foods, the result will be lots of gas, and that you can't digest your foods properly - all of it giving you a bloated stomach - sometimes it can be accompanied by pain as well.

Since combining my foods properly, I no longer have the "pregnant" look - my stomach is flat, and I don't have the bloating, gas, and pain.

Here's some good info on it: http://cureforulcerativecolitis.com/step-1-methodology-to-eating

Hope this helps.

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