Hit with a severe flare... overnight?

Maybe just an intestinal bug? I always try to think that if it just hits you like that or of course something weird that you ate. The 25 times since midnight is concerning though. I would try an immodium if your still going.

If you really think it's from the Lialda, reducing the dose may help you to improve. I am sorry you're having so much trouble so quickly. I tend to think there isn't one trigger but that it's a progression over time, otherwise I go crazy trying to figure out the trigger. I am with sherbear, maybe it's a bug, let's try to think positive. I am surprised your GI doesn't have a number you can call to have him/her paged. Did you call the answering service to see if it's possible to get in touch?

Because UC is an autoimmune disease a flares can be sudden and severe and out of the blue. So you may be flaring.

It could be a gut-bug...tis the season. But it could also be a flare, yes, flares can come on quickly with a vangance. Reason why is because it's a stupid, ignorant disease and more often than not, has a crappy mind of it's own (sensing some bitterness that I feel towards IBD) I'm so annoyed with IBD lately, must be cuz this is 21 yrs now that I've had it with no full remission.

You've been complaining for a while now regarding symptoms, so I wouldn't say it's overnight. Fares have symptoms on a continuum...they get accelerated when not enough medications are administered...and we get really scared when they've reached the limit of our acceptance that it's something else.

I'd say you're flaring for sure. I've stated you were flaring over a month ago. But, you might also have something else going on as well.

But I won't suggest rectal meds....just because you'll get mad at me.

Hope your doc can help get you feeling better soon, it pains me to see you suffering for so long.

q

Could this be as a result of yourgoingback to gluten, wheat, dairy?
I hope you feel better soon.

I've had food poisoning a few times and it's always involved throwing up for me. I've never seen blood with food poisoning but I had intense D, cramps, sweating, and vomiting. I hope this is just a bug and you're feeling better. Any update on your condition? Thinking about you.

I second what Quincy said...You have posted here during the past month complaining that the lialda isn't working. You also mentioned that your moron of a GI (excuse my language but i think this is the description that bests suits an idiot that says rectal meds don't help in pancolitis) won't prescibe rectals becaue they don't help. But he is happy apparently to prescribe prednisone- a drug with serious side effects.
For your GI's information studies have shown that only VERY SMALL amounts of the oral meds actually reach the rectum, AND that the disease starts in the rectum, AND that the rectum is the hardest to treat. All of these 3 points necessitate that rectal meds be used.

Please change GIs. And start on rectal meds. Im sure there must be a way for the uninsured to to get meds.

Please keep us posted.

I believe Greenuc then posted saying that was a mild transient reaction that did not recur. And he also said that happened after he ate out in a restaurant the night before. So it seems like he was not flaring rather it was either food poisoning or a reaction to a food he ate.

Thanks for the info everyone. It must have been something I ate because I'm doing better today - not great, but definitely better. Frequency stopped sometime in the afternoon yesterday and now I'm pretty much just back to where I was prior to whatever happened the previous night. I'm getting some entocort (oral) today.

That's exactly how my last flare started. Came on sudden and virulent. So yes, it is possible.

Sue