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Posted 1/2/2011 10:11 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, just want to know if any other female uc sufferers experience a horrible pulling sensation in the vaginal area when they are flaring, like your bladder is full most of the time. It happens when I flare - my bladder feels so full and it takes time to urinate. I can urinate a lot, for long.... I suppose it's simply because the nerve endings are intertwined in that area across the perineum, so one affects the other... is that right?

CTC
Posted 1/2/2011 10:39 PM (GMT 0)
I haven't exactly noticed that, but I have noticed, when flaring, that if I feel the need to urinate and don't have a chance to go fairly quickly, it will turn into a need to poop as well. I assumed that was because of nearby inflamed tissues, same line of thinking as you've come up with.

Gosh, sorry for all your discomfort!
Posted 1/2/2011 11:23 PM (GMT 0)
YES. I'm having that right now. My period is supposed to start this week. I've had the worst time this past couple weeks in the time leading up until now.

I also have this pulling, urge to pee, and it turns into needing to poo. NOW. So annoying. I don't know how to fix it.
Posted 1/2/2011 11:25 PM (GMT 0)
I also want to add that sometimes the 'pulling' is so bad that I can't bend my body back or stand up straight comfortably.
Posted 1/3/2011 1:01 AM (GMT 0)
laura...ask the doctor for some antispasmodics...they can help.

From what I remember before I had the hysteretcomy, I had that a lot...with cloudy urine, thought to be infection. Sometimes it was, other times not. Then thought to be interstitial cystitis...yikes. A bladderscope deemed it a negative, thankfully.

It was explained to me that the area is very small withso much going on...flaring, period, bladder, etc. Referred pain and other organs joining in the party, so to say, can happen with inflammation.

What meds exactly are you on....Imuran and Lialda?

Do you have any rectal meds you can start?
q
Posted 1/3/2011 3:37 AM (GMT 0)
I also have vaginal discomfort with my UC symptoms.  I feel a lot of pressure down there along with a burning feeling.  Sometimes I have to lie down because it feels like my bottom will just drop out.  I was thinking about mentioning it to the group here but thought maybe I was the only one with it.  I mentioned it to both of my doctors, GI and GYN and they both looked clueless, so I have just dealt with it.

Now that I see some other complaints, I realize that it must be some kind of referred pain from the UC inflammation if that makes sense.

Posted 1/3/2011 7:50 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks everyone, ok, at least I know I'm not the only one. Last december the feeling was so bad that I used to heat up a bean bag in the microwave (not sure what you call it - here in South Africa it's called a Happy Hugger) and i used to put it across from my bottom to the front to ease the feeling. Or maybe something cool, like a ice-pack wrapped in a towel would be better. I also thought I had a bladder infection. I went to a Urologist and he was the one who said it's not an infection but that the nerves get confused as they all lie very closely together done there! So yes, I guess it's the inflammation/ referral discomfort that is causing this.

Laura I hear you. Funny, I'm also getting my period in the next couple of days :-) But this pulling/weeing thing has been for the last month or so... maybe a little worse now, leading up to my period. Quincy's suggestion of antispasmodics is good but aren't we banned from using things like that due to the effect on the intestines? I know I'm never allowed to take tablets like Voltaren etc...

Feel better x
CTC
Posted 1/3/2011 9:06 AM (GMT 0)
dicyclomine is what I use. Not in the same category as imodium...which we shouldn't use often unless the doc says OK.

Dicyclomine is also used for bladder spasming.

q
Posted 1/3/2011 2:59 PM (GMT 0)
Okey Dokey, thx Quincy, will speak to my doc and see if we get that/something similar here. x
Posted 1/5/2011 2:10 AM (GMT 0)
I'm not sure if I'd want an antispasmatic. I've had this gastritis and/or ulcer brewing in my stomach right now too, and theres soooo much going on in that area. I go to the doc next Wednesday.

Quincy, yes, Lialda and Imuran (azathioprine). My doc is pill happy.... I have to turn things down each time I go there, but he's a good doc besides that. I used rectal meds before, as in way back in 2006. I've been ok mainly, and only flare every month or few months for a few days before/during my period, which is when I also have the problem outlined in this post. The flares always clear up on their own.
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