Question about Bleeding

When you are in a flare and bleeding, do you bleed every time you have a BM?

Thanks

When I'm flaring to the point of bleeding...yes, I'll have blood with every bm, and if I'm flaring, there will definitely be rectal white-knuckler pain/spasming.

After starting to use the rectal meds nightly, the rectal spasming upon bms will lessen, and the bleeding may be minimal to none as I heal.

q

I bleed like crazy, i have been for 7 weeks now. Either with a bowel movement, or just running to the bathroom to release blood and mucus :o( I hate seeing so much blood, it looks like something out of a horror movie!!

Thanks all, the info is much appreciated : )

I don't, but like kops2da, I have a case that doesn't extend past the sigmoid region. For me there's blood only sometimes, and the blood is always part of the white mucus (I can see it's present if the balls of mucus are pink or red), rather than loose.

In my case, I had mucus and blood before I was diagnosed, but once my GI put me on sulfasalazine, it went away. I struggled with painful gas, bloating, and constipation but never had D. After a year on sulfa, I started getting loose stools and then decided to start the SCD diet in 2007. That really worked great for me (no meds, no symptoms) until I got some IV antibiotics last year. Since then, I have had intermittent B and one irritated spot (ulcer, I'm assuming) with no other symptoms. Going back on sulfa, diet mods, nothing helped. Canasa helped for awhile, then the B started again a few months after stopping the Canasa. It doesn't get really bad, just some B with every BM, which is usually just 1-2 per day, well-formed. about a month ago, I started Canasa twice a day and it finally stopped after a couple of weeks. But I can still feel a slight bit of irritation right at the end of the rectum, so I'm trying some Cortifoam to see if that pushes me over the edge to 100% healing.

It seems weird to me that my symptoms have changed so much in the 4-1/2 years I've had UC, but I guess it's not unusual to require increasingly stronger meds to get into remission?

Kathy

Yup, I bleed everytime too, like most of the others here. And pass just blood sometimes too.

This time around, I am also having terribly nausea during BMs-that is a new one for me, and not at all pleasant!!! Cramping, pain, nausea, UGH.