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Posted 1/8/2012 11:25 AM (GMT 0)
Hi  (sorry forgot to put in subject title before)
I have now been using salofalk enemas for a week at night  together  with 3 mesalazine tabs tice dailey. And for the first time in 8 months  my proctitus seems to be improving. The explosions are now rare, the terrible smell when I passed wind has gone ( for me that was one of the worst symptoms) and the blood seems to have disappeared.  There is stills little mucus, but heh at least I feel for once I am definitely getting somewhere. I  know it's early days, but I have my fingers crossed!!
However this morning my BM's and the mucus were a dark mauvy almost black colour. I eat bluberrys regulary ( but never noticed this before in  my BM's ). I had spinach for the fist time three nights ago, and although yesterday i didnt have any BM's, since using the ememas my BM's have been far more frequent which I have presumed is normal as my body needs to get used to them so I would have thought the spinach would have passed through before.
I know black stools is not a good sign, but as this is the first time in 8 mths I have had this colour and as this week things have been improving so much,  could this  be the old stuff now coming away, or can the salofalk enema change the colour of the stools. Oh I have also had acute Uveitis (inflammation of the eye) since Friday and have been using steroid eye drops. Surely they can't have gone in to the mix too.  Any ideas anyone?
Posted 1/8/2012 11:52 AM (GMT 0)
Hello there!
Ive had this mauve blackish color before. It wasnt due to food. It was mainly always after i did some salofalk suppositories or enemas. I always thought it was because my bloody stools were drying off. But I think its just the med itself.

It went away though after a while but usually when i see this color its always with a more regular bm and less inflammation.
Keep on the good work thats a good sign!
Gotta love the blueberries too :P
Posted 1/8/2012 12:59 PM (GMT 0)
hi Tournevice, many thanks for the reasurance. Ive been again asnd colour back to normal, As it was the first BM of the day and the first for two days I agree with you and think it's something to do with the enema.
Thanks again
Posted 1/8/2012 2:58 PM (GMT 0)
london didi,
As you said, black stools are never good. If it happens again, I'd strongly recommend you keep a sample in a plastic dish with a tight lid.... a small sample....and call your doctor and get the stool tested for blood.
I've never used the meds you mentioned, and hope that's all it was.
Take care,
Posted 1/8/2012 5:20 PM (GMT 0)
I agree about getting checked out if it continues. Some supplements can cause dark stools. Iron made mine very odd colors. I also agree that enemas can cause dark, sometimes purplish stool. I've noticed some of that color on the paper after a BM.
Posted 1/8/2012 7:15 PM (GMT 0)
I have to add that from my experience the mauve or blackish color was rarely in the stool itself (the stoll was normal color) but mainly on the well... wet initial fart before the bm!
Sorry for the image but i think you get it lol

I agree that if the stools themselves are blackish consult a gp.
But i reckon after a few days you get used to the salofalk it should be fine.
Posted 1/8/2012 7:25 PM (GMT 0)
I would say it's a combo of the blueberries and the spinach. If you don't eat them for 2 days, and see if your stools change in a day or two.

Is it the entire stool, parts of the stool...etc?

What colour is it ON the toilet paper?

other colours to the mix (purple/green), would cause a much darker weird coloured stool.

I, personally, wouldn't worry...but I've seen a few colours in the mix over the many years, interestingly in one bm.

Stop eating the two foods....see if there's a difference.

It's great to hear you're doing much better!

q
Posted 1/8/2012 8:23 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks everyone for your imput.
 Quincy as an answer It was everything, the stools, and smears on the toilet paper which  was a mauvey  colour. (it was the colour on the paper which made me think of the bluberrys) I think it would have been more worrying if there had been less or maybe just part of the stools, as it was almost too much for it to be blood as by the next BM which was an hour later it was back to a normal colour. As I said I have had no blood and only a little mucus for a week now (since starting the enemas and meds together) and before that it was normally a reddish to browny red colour. I will watch it but it is so difficult not to become obsessive!!!
Posted 1/9/2012 9:22 AM (GMT 0)
I wouldn't worry about it...meaning I.

Beets...now those have sometimes been startling until I have the "oh yeah" moment.

If your stools are back to normal then it seems obvious it's the food intake (both are high in dye qualities because they can be used for colouring easter eggs...so poop, why not?

lol.
q
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