bad accidents no warning

Ask your doc for LOMOTIL it will decrease or stop the urgency and help control the accidents.  I found it great to relax the colon before inserting the enema this way I was able to retain the enema for the night.  It's pretty hard to retain when the colon is badly inflammed.  I aslo found the the lomotil slow the bowel movements therefor I was going less and the rectum had a chance to heal because it wasn't so irritated.

RUB VITAMIN E oil into the rectum and lubricate the enema tip with it, the vit e helps the lining to heal. 

It's been a lifesaver for me.

[after years of reading message boards and never posting, i'm finally compelled to post because 1) i needed to hear that others have accidents all the time 2) my brother who also has crohn's just started using/reading message boards and inspired me to finally share]

I still have accidents all the time. Pretty much any time I need to go and I'm not near a bathroom. This has been the case for the most part, since Remicade stopped working for me in Dec. 2006!

I guess it's progressively gotten worse up to the present 'cause the small area of my lower colon will NOT get healthy.  I can't eat before I leave my house and I almost never leave the house without taking Lomotil. My accidents aren't usually even diarrhea. I lose formed or semi-formed stool. I often don't have a meal until dinnertime if i'm working [i start at 12p] or if i have to do errands.

I've worn a pad every day for the past 3 years and gone through so much underwear, I should own stock in Victoria's Secret. I started wearing a pad when I had a recurring perianal abscess which turned into a fistula.

I had a seton for about a year and a half..almost 2 [then it fell out!]. When I went for yet another [bowel] surgery consult to see if I could have a resection or colectomy, my surgeon said my fistula wasn't healed and the lower colon/rectum was too inflammed for surgery. I went back for what was supposed to be another seton placement, but turned into an anal fistulotomy [last month]. I'm waiting now to see what my options will be.

I'm lucky my manager at work told me about intermittent FMLA, so that my job is protected. I hardly ever call out sick, but I'm often tardy because I'm either 1) afraid to leave my house until i feel "empty" or have had 2-3 BM's; 2) need to stop for a bathroom on the way; 3) have an accident [i can sometimes clean up and continue on to work, but usually turn around and go home to change and stick my butt under the tub faucet]

I have some crazy pooping-my-pants and almost pooping-pants stories. But I'll save those for another post.

This has just started for me too. I wanted to reply because reading your post made me feel less alone.

Yesterday I made it all the way home just to go while I was running up the stairs. Luckily mainly mucus and blood.  Last week I forgot to take my soaking underwear out of the sink and told my housemate I'd had a nose bleed in the night as I couldn't admit why of course. 

Anyway, you're not alone and hopefully when the flare subsides so will the urgency, I'm starting to laugh about it to myself. Makes me feel less useless and the only way really. that and never ever ever trust in a f*rt!!

Good luck for the future!! get well soon. xxx