flare or hemroids?

Hi I've been haveing some problems lately with my ulcertive colitis.  I've been off the steriods for almost three weeks now and lately I have been having blood in my stools.  But the blood is red and comes after the stool has passed.  My stools are somewhat formed, and I am also taking humera and methodrexate.  my question is does this sound like a flare or hemroids.  I'm kind of hoping that its hemroids cause I really dont want to go back on the steriods.

that definitely sounds like hemroids. you can buy some preparation h and try it. it might make you feel better.

thats hemi..me also was confused abt that..but my doc assured me that wen the blood red,thats hemi

use proctosedyl ointment n suppositories

Blood in your stools won't likely be from a fissure...yes fissures can bleed but small ones will cause hardly noticable if noticable at all, bleeding, it's bigger/deeper fissures that would cause noticable bleeding but that bleeding would likely be dripping into the toilet and/or be on the TP, not in the actual stool itself though...and you'd know if you had a larger/deep fissure compared to a small one(s).

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If it was a fissure then jordanko would know it, even with tiny fissures and no blood from them can be horribly painful, let alone one that causes bleeding.

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Because jordanko does not mention any pain in the anal area at all is one of the biggest reasons I don't think it's fissure(s) because I know that they don't have to be horribly painful, but they do have a distinctive kind of pain.

Besides which, the bleeding could very much just be part of a flare and nothing more.

Smilies back at ya Q :) :) :)

Totally agree with getting on rectal meds!!

:)