Curious: How many people have pain with UC?

 I dont have pain, I have a lot of discomfort from the spasms during bm but not pain.

I have awful pain and cramping with BMs when I am flaring. Even if I am not flaring to badly, I seem to get some cramping, it's always a bad sign.

My first flare had no pain at all, it was still unbearable because I had terrible urgency and frequency but this more recent flare that I've been battling for MONTHS, has been accompanied with awful cramping pain. Pain so bad I felt like I would throw up while using the bathroom.

The first flare, when I was diagnosed with proctitis, I had a few really painful hemmehroids. Different kind of pain but nevertheless, painful!

I've always had pain with my Uc flares. I get a lot of left sided pain, like someone is taking a knife and stabbing me on the side. Also, I get a lot of cramping before a bm and sharp shooting pains in the rectum when I go. I wished I didn't have the pain that some people don't get. :(

I had no pain for the first 22 or so years, with the exception of while having a bowel movement when in a flare, and then only sometimes. When I first had pain a few years ago, I didn't know what it was, it was such a new development!
So..... UC2010, just... be grateful!

imagardener2, I'm with you... the rest of UC is bad enough (without the pains)... so I feel for those who have the pains on top of everything else. I'm definitely grateful I haven't had to deal with that.

Brian

I have severe Uc throughout my whole colon. I've never had much pain. If I do get any it is mild discomfort on my upper right side and I've also never had blood in my D. Go figure. Guess I'm lucky in those two senses. lol

Is it cramping, zippy123, or is it just pain. I can't tell the difference between cramp and pain. Is cramp a reaction to pain?

Wow!  I am actually surprised that not all of us experience pain with UC.  I thought that was a commanlity we all shared.  I have incredible pain associated with my UC...plus all of the other symptoms...urgency, blood, mucous, and frequent BM's.  During the last three months, I have missed many days of work because of the pain alone.  Now I feel A LOT better with my UC but that is only in terms of the urges, frequency and numbers of visits to the restroom.  The pain is still there, but as long as the other symptoms have alleviated, I am able to over look it and feel like I am headed toward recovery.

I am still waiting to have an MRI to determine if I have crohn's in addition to my UC however.

My pains seem to reflect flaring.....lower left side and rectal pain/spasming throughout the day, and of course the classic rectal white-knucklers upon bms.

I get stomach discomfort and more gas just as a flare is reving up.

I use Bentylol (dicyclomine) up to 4 times a day during the worst discomfort I've had.

I have less pain when I have diarrhea (higher than only rectal inflammation) than I do with more formed stool (limited within the rectum).

q

I experience pain whether Im flaring or not. Its something that baffled the gi's I used to see. Im seeing a new one and its only early on in our medical relationship so I dont know what she'll think of it. Im not flaring now, but I do experience a great deal of pain mostly when I eat or put anything in my mouth. Water sets me off, chewing gum, everything. There are days or moments when I dont feel anything but its rare. I had a week just last week when I was ravenous and I didnt feel a whole lot of discomfort, but I ate a raw apple, which being on scd, I hadnt had in a long time. At first I thought Id be ok, then I had diarreah and now the pain and discomfort starts again .

So, yeah, Im almost always in at least a little bit of discomfort. It can make me feel pretty miserable. When I met with the ibd support nurse specialist at the hospital Im with now, she said it may be that I had been flaring from mildly to moderately or worse for such a long time that maybe it'll just take a long time for my bowels to heal up.

My daughter has horrible pain. Lots of cramping when having a BM and then pain afterwards sometimes up to an hour or more.

Pain tends to be my main UC complaint- eg I often have good stretches with formed stools etc but with soreness and pain in the gut being my main issue.  Of course, like anything in UC things vary- I have stretches where urgency and multiple BM's/loose stool is the issue but with little pain too, though usually pain leads to loose stools, and my best stretches are where I suffer from neither.  Not that the medical profession really knows what either of these "IB[X]" labels really are (IBD means disfunction associated with underlying infllammation, IBS means disfunction without inflammation) but I consider myself to have both IBS and IBD, so I believe that any active IBD has its pain/disocmfort greeatly amplified by the IBS.