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Posted 11/18/2010 11:39 AM (GMT 0)
I was wondering if anyone else experiences this. My bowel movements are finally solid but in the am I need 3-4 trips to finally be able to be safe to leave the house if need be. The movements need to be forced at times also causing discomfort not to say it wears me out also. There is still some pus and blood present.Seems to never end!
Posted 11/18/2010 11:44 AM (GMT 0)
Ugh...I hear ya on this one. I definitely experience more movement when I wake up than at any other time of the day. I literally open my eyes and 5 minutes later have to run! So much for snugglin' under the covers!
Posted 11/18/2010 12:29 PM (GMT 0)
My long-time GI (I was with him 22 years) used to call this "the morning cluster of BMs" - pretty normal for us UCer's, I guess.
Knahs..... I've found that fiber (I take Metamucil, psyllium) helps so I don't have to force - I remember before I took it, and I'd feel that need to force, I'd always bleed a little more. If you haven't tried fiber, think it might help?

lol I know I'm not flaring when I can take my morning shower before using the toilet. Ah, the things by which we measure progress.......!
Posted 11/18/2010 12:48 PM (GMT 0)
I can relate to that - if I'm lucky it's just once before I leave the house (often 2-3 times though), but then normally another 2 times shortly after arriving at work.
Afternoons typically ok - but then often a couple more visits to the small room in the evening.
Posted 11/18/2010 4:43 PM (GMT 0)
Yes I have the same thing right now. For me it started when I didn't want to sit too long on the toilet because the straining was giving me bad hemmis, so I would just pass whatever came easy then quit only to have to go back a bit later. It seems to have become a habit now. I also have tenesmus which makes it really hard to know when you legitimately have more stool to pass, or if it is a false feeling. Really annoying actually.

When it comes to fiber, I feel darned if I do, and darned if I don't right now. No fiber means less well formed stool that can be hard to pass. Fiber means large bulky stools which are painful to pass because of rectal inflammation and swelling. Overall, taking fiber seems like the lesser of the evils. The constipation from lack of fiber is really damaging because of the pushing and straining that results.
Posted 11/18/2010 6:07 PM (GMT 0)
I also have to go in the mornings, usually three times before I can leave the house; though I don't need to strain.
Posted 11/18/2010 7:05 PM (GMT 0)
I like to go at least 2-3 times in the morning before I leave house.
Posted 11/18/2010 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
Only if I'm flaring, and not even with mucus/blood....
I sometimes will have more than one bm in the morning depending on how much I've eaten the day before...could also be an IBS thing too.

I do hope you're using rectal meds...and if so, which ones and for long have you been on them consistently.

The fact that your bms are more solid says it's limited to the rectum....if that's improved from where you were, that's a good thing.

q
Posted 11/19/2010 1:37 AM (GMT 0)
I can relate.  I go first thing when I get up..to get rid of the left over enema.  Then 1-2 time later after breakfast.  I find having something warm to drink helps wake up the colon so I can get it out before leaving for work.

If you're struggling to poop, you may be swollen at the end of your rectum.  The enema help me in this area. I haven't been swollen since. 

 

Posted 11/19/2010 2:52 AM (GMT 0)
I had 1-3 right away in the morning for at least 20(25) years before i was diagnosed. I think this very normal in many men. Women I have lived with didn't seem to have this issue. I rarely have ever gone after that except when flaring.

Coffee anyone?
Posted 11/19/2010 4:49 PM (GMT 0)
Yes it seems to be common thing, at least twice in the mornings. When I was completly healthy it was once in the morning and done for the day. I do not force anything if possible, it can make things far worse.
Posted 11/21/2010 10:34 AM (GMT 0)
hi all, ive been in a flaire up for 8 months in 6 weeks time, the minute i open my eyes and move in the bed i have too go to the toilet and i will have a cup of tea then go twice, this has always been, then i get to work and go again, i know how my body is i do still get up 3-5 times a night..

my take on it is that it collates throu the night builds up and has to come out, i even know when i sit for a few hours the same thing hapens, i standup and there it is!

all the best x

 

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