Chronic Diarrhea with UC?

Sounds to me like you just got worse. Hopefully your Saturday appointment will get some answers. Could you just be sick? I know before my UC sometimes I would just get diarrhea but not really be sick in other ways. After UC sometimes it was hard to tell if my UC was going through a bad time or if I had some virus. Hope you get better soon.

I had a flare like this too. After 15 years of just blood, I got bad D and no blood. I had not changed any meds, just the colonoscopy threw me into a flare. After 2 rounds of prednisone, I still can't get a hold of it. Maybe you are allergic to the meds?? Are these ones you have been on all along? I hope your doctor appt gives you some relief.

Make sure you get your electrolytes too :(

Oh yea, I forgot the gi also put me on bentyl. He also told me that left sided uc and universal uc is the same, is this true. From what I've googled, it says universal uc involves the entire colon.

Also my md put me on prescription lomotil, I've taken two at a time and it does nothing at all to even slow down the diarrhea. Has anyone been on Imuran with success? The side affects I'm reading on hear sound pretty scary.

I tried probiotics, and I had gas and bleeding, maybe I should give them another try, I only tried them for a couple of days. At this point I'm willing to try anything, my family and friends want me to get the ileostomy, but I just can't see myself doing that until I've tried all the meds first. Thank you, I have some probiotics and I'll give them another try. My gi seems to only want me on the mesalamine meds for some reason. Is there a certain probiotic that works best? I tried asidofilis pearls(spelling?) and they made me bleed, and the I got Sunmade Probiotics and they gave me gas, but I'd rather have gas than this diarrhea.

I've never had blood in my stool in the 15 years I've had UC. However what I do get is watery diahrrea alot. 10 to 15 times a day of watery freaking diarrhea. Food doesn't even have time to digest most of the time. My doc and I have a good relationship and for this recent one gave me a perscription for prednisone at my suggestion, the frequency is slowing down to abaout 5 times per day in just 3 days on it and it's starting to become more soft diarrhea instead of watery. SO I guess my point is that for me watery stool is really common for my UC and blood has never been part of it. It's a very odd and individualized disease from what I can tell. Maybe try some antispasmadics like quincy uses (I think bentylol) might help and you probably need an anti-inflammatory of some sort as well. Maybe a cortifoam enema might help if you don't tolerate the predinsone well. You and your doc should talk though because some people, myself included, have really bad reactions to mesalmine meds, in fact those meds made me ALOT worse than I am so I've had to go other routes for meds. Not saying those are making you worse but it certainly is not out of the realm of possibility either

 

Post Edited (butte1) : 8/24/2012 9:13:09 AM (GMT-6)

Agree with Sue, my last flexsig the doc said the colon looked really good to the naked eye but the biopsy showed chronic inflammation in the tissue

sorry for your suffering 42 - wish i had something definitive to offer - do you have a few xtra pounds to spare ? if so, i would suggest a colon rest of some sort - not knowing what you are eating, i could bo way off base - i just know for me, giving my system a break always works wonders - maybe a 3 day light veggie/meat based broth or juice diet might help - and lots of h2o - i try to keep things as simple as possible - if i try throwing too many things at the problem, it just seems to confuse things -

good luck - it will get better -

Post Edited (soystud) : 8/24/2012 7:19:45 PM (GMT-6)

Thank you for your responses. I go tomorrow to my gastro. My md is also referring me for a second opinion reguarding surgery. I haven't ever tolerated asacol, my other GI just refused to change it. I would have more stools and pass whole pills. That's why I switched gis. I haven't had any stool studies. Hopefully I'll get somewhere with my dr tomorrow. Have a great weekend.

It sounds to me like the apriso is probably causing it. All 5ASA meds give me watery D (and also much worse pain, but then, pain is my biggest UC symptom most of the time) and they work like an on switch to cause me this D... If asacol didnt cause issues, why not switch back to that? Hooefully it is not a general allwrgic reaction to 5AsA's that has developed- but in any cade, I would atongly recommend stopping all 5ASa's for a few days just to test the theory.

With the clarification you've provided, it really sounds like you're intolerant to mesalamine (Asacol, Apriso, etc). I think I'd be looking for yet another GI.