What does remission look/feel like?

I'm one of the lucky ones (at least, of the ones on here) and have no symptoms now that I'm in remission. I have 1-2 normal, non-urgent BM's a day, and don't have any food problems that I didn't before (MSG and artificial sweetners). However, when I was flaring, I would have been happy with 5-6+ Bm's a day, so long as the urgency was gone. That was the thing I had the most trouble with...I wasn't really able to do much outside of work, because I was too scared to be too far from a bathroom. I was able to opt out of some work travel that I can't imagine having done when flaring. And, if it had been summer, when I have to be out in the field a lot, I'm also not sure what I'd have done.

I have just recently come into what I would call a remission with sulfasalazine, although its not what it was before having UC. But I've gone from going 5-9 times a day to 1-2, and little to no blood. The abdominal pain is very minimal too. But I assume it will continue to get better, I've only had this remission for about a week and a half.

But when I was first diagnosed, I was given 40 mg prednisone and 4 asacol 3 times a day, and from that day on the problems completely went away, like I was going once a day, sometimes 1 every other day! Those were the days :)

So your only symptom is blood? How much? Could it be from hemmies?

Prednisone calms inflammation all over the body, so I can see how it could make hemmies better. But that's JUST a guess, so don't take too much stock in that!

Most GI's are ok with a smidge of bleeding. I'm not sure how I'd react to having bleeding all the time, though. I'd probably worry a bit as well. I know that people on here deal with a bit of bleeding quite often, and are happy so long as they don't have diarrhea, frequency, and urgency.