For Fun - You Know you have UC When-

You know you have UC when...

your bleeding profusely out your @ss.

You know you have Uc when:

You actually know there are 3 names for the large intestine.

When your leg muscles are so in shape but not from excersizing but from making mad dashes to the bathroom.

When old people start talking about their bowel habits and you can beat their stories.

You know you have UC when you are beaming with pride from a well formed "trophy" stool, and immediately want to show it off to your significant other before flushing.

You know you have UC when you casually assume that normal people know what "C", "D", "M", and "B"  mean with respect to bowel movements.

You know you have UC when you build a little library of assorted books, magazines and catalogs in the home bathroom.

You know you have UC when the first and last things you check, before travelling, is that you have multiple stashes of emergency meds packed away.

(Note: I give due credit for the term "trophy stool" to a regular on an SCD-related forum some years ago, lol)

when you actually give yourself a handle like potty girl. not sure what I was thinking.

You know you have UC when your are excited that there is more mucus than blood.
... when you can't wait to a stoma and J Pouch! :)

Ah, I was going to post something along these lines, but Probiotic beat me to it and said it so much better than I would have:

You know you have UC when you are beaming with pride from a well formed "trophy" stool, and immediately want to show it off to your significant other before flushing.

It's amazing how my morning bm can either make or break my mood for the whole day.

You feel proud of your colon when it's "behaving!"

When you're happy to step on the scales and see that you've GAINED weight.

The 8 minute trip and 2 minute turn around was a classic! lol

You know you have UC when...

Your priority in buying new pants is "how easy are the buttons, can I get them down fast enough??" (women will understand this)

You know way too much about which is the best brand of toilet tissue.

You can't remember the last time you wore white underwear.

You know you have UC

when you take more pills everyday than your grandma.

You know you have UC when...

you accept bowel pain to be a part of normal every day life.
you think it is perfectly normal to talk about poop to anyone, and that there is no way they could get grossed out.
you get all sorts of people trying to tell you what to do for your disease when they have no understanding of it, the severity of the medication, or how much you have you researched it.
you could probably write a book about your understanding of the colon but have not necessarily took a biology class.

atj31 said...
you know you have UC when:
A family member has diahrea for one day and says to you "Now I know how you feel."

That's my boyfriend's mom. She was taking NSAIDs and got microscopic colitis. A cause of microscopic colitis is taking NSAIDs. Of course, her doctors never mentioned that to her. Her symptoms are severe diarrhea. No real urgency. No bleeding.

After the diagnosis, she announces that she has colitis just like me, at which point, I tell her about the times in which I didn't make it to the toilet and about how I was passing tons of blood clots.

At dinner that evening, she takes out all her medications (she has a lot of them) and tells me that she is going to be taking Asacol for the rest of her life for her colitis. She tells me this when she is eating prune cake and ice cream.

I tell her that I'm medication free and tell her about probiotics. At which point, she asks why she needs to take probiotics when she is already taking antibiotics. When I tell her about probiotics, she angerly replies that she isn't going to take anything without the advise of her doctor.

That was a couple of months ago. The last time I visited, she was eating cookies and chocolate, taking Asacol, and not taking probiotics.

It's very frustration to sit by and watch. But she will just get upset if I try to say anything.