Pregnant horrible flare and infection PLEASE HELP

I am 16 weeks pregnant and am very sick.  I got a new GI doc because mine kept blowing me off.  Well thank goodness i went to someone else.  I have been pooping strictly blood like a faucet since Friday.  It has been about almost 2 cups of blood a day. Along with the blood is a yellowish pus. (sorry i know so gross!!)  I went to the ER Tuesday and they sent me to a new GI and did a flex sig since they can't do a colonoscopy since I am pregnant.  Well he went as far up as he could and said it is all bloody, pus, and discharge all over my colon and is extremely severe.  He put me on 15 mg of pregnisone 2 times a day and 350 mg flagyl 3 times a day and changed my meds from Lialda to Asacol 2 pills 3 times a day.  I have been on Lialda for 3 years now and I do not believe it helped me.  He thinks I have an infection which is why he put me on flagyl I dropped my stool samples off today. I am worried about the infection and what else could be wrong. As well as being on the steroids and flagyl while being pregnant.  If anyone can help me be at ease with this i would appreciate it because I am a worrying person and we all know with UC stress does not help! It's only been two days that I have been on pred and didn't expect much to change yet I'm curious when I should start to feel better.  I am getting the flagyl today they had me wait until i dropped the stool samples off until i could take the antibiotic.  I ran all thess meds by the OBGYN they said it's okay but still there is a lot of worry. 

Hi-I am 24 weeks pregnant and I had a really rough time at the beginning. Healing takes alot of time. For now eat what you can, drink tons of water and rest. You may want to take a probiotic.
Please don't stress about the meds. It is very dangerous to be bleeding so much. You need to do wht you can to get the flare under control.

I don't know if this'll help but I was on 40mgs of Prednisone starting at 5 weeks until well into my third trimester, plus Remicade starting at 5 weeks - and I gave a very healthy little boy. I know how hard it is to not worry, I understand how much it sucks to take meds while pregnant, but you need to get healthy yourself (which unfortunately means meds).

thank you all so much! you really have made me feel better just knowing other people going through the same thing especially while pregnant! I am so worried about the affect on the baby and i know flagyl is a category C drug so hopefully that will be okay. i have only been on steroids once and it was a a 5 day pack of steroids never this much. That's why it seems like so much to me!

I was taking Lialda 3 times a day for 3 years now and it hasn't helped main reason why I switched GI's. So I just started the Asacol on Tuesday evening. Maybe thats why it is lower because I just started who knows. I see him again on the 22nd. After the prednisone and Flagyl when do you think i should start noticing a change or start feeling better. I'm a worrier so I want to know when I should call the doc again if this doesn't stop.

I just wanted to send you some (((HUGS))). When I was pregnant I flared (albeit mildly) for the first time in 6 years! I was very, very scared and worried. I just wanted to enjoy my pregnancy like everyone else but I couldn't. I think others have given you good advice. Obviously you should contact your GI whenever you feel like you need to though. I had a new GI ( I had moved) when I got pregnant and he was a nightmare! I have since switched.
I ended up having a very healthy and happy baby boy! He is 15 moths old now. I would say I am finally *almost* back to my old self again. Good luck and try to stay as positive as you can.

Have you tried adding a probiotic into your daily routine? Many people here think they are beneficial and since you're on Flagyl it will help your "good" bacteria stay alive while the bad ones are being killed off.

Also a nightly Rowasa enema could help your bleeding.

Nicole2282- I am so sorry you are going through such a rough time. I have UC (13 yrs.) and have two boys. With my first I was very ill the first trimester, the second I was very sick (hosptialized for a week) during the last trimester. I definately would not worry about the meds., although I did too (I think that's just what moms do). I call my first son my "prednisone baby" and my second son my "asacol baby". They are both very healthy boys (5yr and 1yr). I will explain the differences in the boys which I believe had to do with the meds I was on for my UC at the time. (I am not saying your baby will have the same experience). With my first son, (prednisone) he was born a month early and was 6 lb. 2 1/2 oz. So, he was a little on the light side, but perfectly healthy. He was my mellow, go with the flow baby, never cranky! Now with my second son I decided to stay on the asacol because I wanted to try to keep from having a flare with this one. I was doing awesome, up until the 8th month. Got very very sick and lost a lot of weight, the little guy was fine, but I was not so fine. Had to go on prednisone after being hospitalized and ended up having him on his due date, 7 lb. 10 oz. He was also very healthy, but he is my cranky one (I think it's because he takes after his dad :). So, all in all, have no worry about the meds.. your baby will be just fine. You really need to keep yourself healthy so your baby is healthy. Just as a FYI, my GI told me that usually if you have a flare during pregnancy, you most likely will have a flare with other pregnancies. Not saying this is true for all, but I have found it is definately true for me. My hubbie and I decided that two is enough for us anyway. I would recommend trying the Specific Carbohydrate Diet during your prenancy, it helped my symptoms drastically during my second pregnancy (until I started cheating on the diet and put myself in the hospital). I didn't know about the SCD during my first pregnancy, so didn't try it then. UC moms can most definately have a healthy baby, I found that babies sure are resiliant! I felt like I was on my death bed with my second, yet some how the little guy was growing and prospering the whole time!! I wish you the best of luck!

Not sure where you're located geographically-- but there are some great IBD gastros in the U.S. who deal especially with pregnancy issues: such as Sunanda Kane at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota & Uma Mahadevan at UCal in San Francisco. A couple members who posted here in the past, *Jen* in CA & Kazygirl in Australia, have successfully combatted flares during pregnancy & had healthy babies, in case you want to look up their threads. Best wishes for you to overcome these problems, too. / Old Hat (30 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

Hi Nicole2282 -

I flared with 2 out of my 3 pregnancies and all my children are healthy.  Have your tried changing your enemas to Cortenema and Cortifoam ,I found that they worked better than the other ones especially to get things under control faster.  Anusol doesn't really do much unless you have very mild inflammation in the rectum and even then it doesn't do a heck of alot.  You would be better off using the Cortifoam 2x daily, it absorbs quickly and its easy to retain while your moving around.  The enema I used at bedtime and tried to retain for the night.  I also added the oil from about 8 vit E capsules into the enema it stopped the bleeding and also aids in healing the colon.

Rest, Rest, Rest when ever you get a chance and put your legs up.  Be careful of foods that are abrasive to the colon especially if your badly flaring, romaine lettue was always a killer for me as well as flour.  Rice was always good for binding and it didn't seem to irritate things.

Probiotics are important - Renew Life Ultimate Flora Critical Care is a great one it has 50billion live bacteria per capsule (i take it morning and before bed on an empty stomach)its found in refridgerated section. This will help replace the bacteria that is killed in your colon by the antibiotics.

I hope you feel better soon.