Help for Urgency?

Hi

I've been suffering from urgency as a result of my colitis for years now. Even when my colitis is at bay (ie no bleeding or diarrhea), I still experience urgency. I've tried enemas, suppositories, 6-MP, steroids, and NOTHING has helped the urgency problem.  As a result, I hate leaving my house and am not able to enjoy anything that requires me to leave my house.

Does anyone have any ideas of treatments that I can try?? Now that I'm a mother of two, I need to quickly find some relief so that I can enjoy things with my family.

 

 

At least with me the urgency is worse when the flare is at it's worse.I had 3 accidents  last year-not fun,i was on my way to work with all 3-so make sure you are all cleaned out before you go out.Even now when my flare seems to be going towards remission i can get a slight urge and sometimes i'll pull over to burger king or sometimes it's more my anxiety that drives me nuts.The job i'm working at is about 1 hours drive  from my house so i get up a little early to try to get as empty as possible,made it today without having to stop.I'm also eating much lighter throughout the day-which helps.How bad is the urgency when your not flaring?Is it an urge that you can hold in?I feel i can tell when it's more than a little B.M and when it's not-a very tough disease.I'll pray for you-try to  go on little trips that don't take long-build up your confidence in regards to going out-not easy with kids,i have 3 of them and i'm usually home with them-GOOD LUCK 

Ask your doctor for LOMOTIL it works great to slow things down and help the urgency

I have bad urgency issues as well, but when my rectom is flaring my urgency is a thousand times worse...are you on rectal meds? Also as others have mentioned, imodium can be helpful for some ppl as well.

Good luck and feel better!

my doc told me urgency is due to lower inflammation. rectal meds should help. see if you may need rectal steroids for a while. cortifoam?

I have found that urgency for me is always connected to food. It isn't always immediate, it can be the next morning, but when I examine possible causes and remove the suspected food or drink-that solves it.
It's easier for me to do this now because I know what DOESN'T cause problems which cuts down on possible suspects.

Before I got my major symptoms under control (bleeding, urgency, constant D, tenesmus, etc) it was impossible to figure out anything because my colon was just too injured, too inflamed.

My doctor told me that even people who've had surgery can still have urgency because UC can still exist in a small area of the rectum causing problems.

Have you tried cutting out obvious stimulants like caffeine, chocolate and such?

ucwarrior wrote sometime ago about re training the sphincter/rectum which takes lots of mental fortitude...there are times when my uc is quiet but I still have urgency issues and have to stop myself in the middle of a bm from going too much. During a flare this will be even harder to do but try every time and every day. I think there may be some muscle memory issues that enter the equation. Feel better : )