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Posted 10/21/2012 9:45 PM (GMT 0)
During workdays, I set my alarm to 5:45, but the first sign of poo wakes me up at 4, so between 4 am and 5:30, I have gone at least 6 times. No, blood or mucus, just brown sludge. Once I feel it has settled down, I take my shower (Occasionally have to go once more - primarily on Monday mornings). I then eat my breakfast and take my meds. Sometimes, I have to go again. Relax for 30 minutes, then head off to work. Where I don't have to go again until right before bedtime.

On the weekends, it's a repeat as above but instead the first sign of poo is closer to 6 am, but instead of rushing back to work, I just go back to sleep :)

Just curious to see what everyone's mornings are like, because I have read that us UC'ers the mornings are always the most fun...errr...exciting...troublesome!

Posted 10/21/2012 9:53 PM (GMT 0)
Mine are very similar, but I usually time my dose of immodium to induce enough relief to drive to work. I go all during the night though up until 6 or 7. My system seems to go in 12 hour intervals. 12 hours of not much and 12 hours of bathroom visits.
Posted 10/21/2012 11:03 PM (GMT 0)
My UC seems to lean more toward constipation. Probably has to do with having IBS too. Sometimes I only go once a day and its usually within the first hour of being up. If I have skipped a day or two then I may go 3-4 times usually during the morning hours. For me its been very unpredictable lately which is very annoying.
Posted 10/21/2012 11:16 PM (GMT 0)
my morning bathroom visits mostly have a schedule. once around 12 am, again around 4 am and then once again between 9am-11 am. i'll usually go about 2-3 more times during the day and it usually depends when i exercise- exercising always makes me go!
Posted 10/22/2012 12:10 AM (GMT 0)
I wake up, read the news, after a few minutes, I have to use the toilet. After I go once, I take a shower and go to work.
Posted 10/22/2012 12:22 AM (GMT 0)

notsosicklygirl said...
I wake up, read the news, after a few minutes, I have to use the toilet. After I go once, I take a shower and go to work.

stop gloating...

just kidding lol
Posted 10/22/2012 12:52 AM (GMT 0)
My mornings are changing. I've gone from a predictable 3 to 4 times in the morning to 10, 15, maybe more times up until noon. I've even added a few afternoon trips and a few in the evening just to make things interesting. I am so unimpressed, but hey, nothing much I can do but work at it eh? I just hope things calm back down to the 3-4 soon. (Why did I ever even think that was rough?)
Posted 10/22/2012 12:55 AM (GMT 0)
Mornings have always been rough for me even on my best days
Posted 10/22/2012 1:13 AM (GMT 0)
Up 2 hours before I need to leave the house - just to let tummy do it's thing!
Usually sitting around the computer, having my 1st first cup of coffee will trigger 1st BM, then the second is usually just as I need to leave... mind games I say!!! I'm feeling good thinking, yeah only gone once today... think I'm in the clear to get to work early for a change and then i feel things churning!!!

while flaring - might make 2-6 trips in those 2 hours. Usually ok most of the day - hits me again between 8-10 pm.
Posted 10/22/2012 1:18 AM (GMT 0)
Mornings being horrible seem to be the nature of the beast with this disease...I can't eat breakfast, I don't eat until late in the day, more often than not my first meal of the day is supper time around 6 pm and I still poop like a fool all day without even eating....I hate this disease.
Posted 10/22/2012 1:27 AM (GMT 0)
Until pretty recently, my mornings were so blissfully normal!

Just entered flare-dom last month and this is what I do:

Wake up between 6 and 7
Uh, oh, gotta go. Fart out some lovely bloody mucous. What a great way to start my day.
Take my probiotics and L-glutamine
Go for a fast morning walk
Come home and make breakfast for my family
Uh, oh, gotta go again. Fart out some more bloody mucous. Ick.
Then do whatever we have to do that day, interspersed with more bloody mucous. Sigh.
Posted 10/22/2012 2:50 AM (GMT 0)
Mornings start on the weekdays at about 5:30 to a bowel movement & a lot of pain & gas. If lucky she gets to go back to sleep, then is up for 7, goes the bathroom again & takes pills with food. On good days the bathroom trips are done until later in the day. Bad days, it is one more trip before rushing for the school bus. (This is all with Remicade, before the mornings were at least 8 times from 4 am-11 am). School time is a crapshoot... literally.

Weekends means about the same wakeup - 5:30, but now back to bed until about 9 a.m., sometimes later. This was a girl that used to require 6-7 hrs sleep before the IBD, and now being on the Prednisone could sleep 10+ hrs. Always very tired, morning or night.

Congrats nososicklygirl! love to hear those positive situations! Keep gloating! I'm sure you deserve it.
Posted 10/22/2012 12:32 PM (GMT 0)
I wake up, have breakfast and a cup of cofee, then have a BM within a half an hour or so while I'm doing hair/makeup, which is usually my only one for the day. When I was flaring, mornings were no worse than the rest of the day.
Posted 10/22/2012 12:34 PM (GMT 0)
I get up at 5:40 am. I like to give myself extra time in the mornings just in case I have problems.
Posted 10/22/2012 3:44 PM (GMT 0)
im flaring now, so 2-4 times in the morning. Right when my feet hit the floor my butt says lets go. sucks. make coffee, poop again. Sometimes after i eat lunch, go again...Usually thats it for the rest of the day.
Posted 10/22/2012 3:52 PM (GMT 0)
I wake up at 6:45a on weekdays, have breakfast, have my 1st poop, get ready for work, have my 2nd poop, and then I am off to work by 7:45a. On most weekdays, that's it -- I'm done pooping until the next day. On weekends, I get up like 7:30a, and I poop later on like 9:45a, sometimes just once but other times twice.

It's a crazy disease, sometimes I go more in the mornings for sure -- I've had 3 or 4 poops in a morning which seemingly pops up at random. There's a Dunkin Donuts about 1/4 mile down the street from my house that I've stopped at in the mornings a number of times when a 3rd poop is suddenly essential. Haha I've even felt guilty enough to buy from them on a few occasions for their bathroom's convenience to me.
Posted 10/22/2012 4:08 PM (GMT 0)
I'm not flaring from my Uc but I do have other gut issues I am contending with. So if I have to be somewhere in the morning, I wake up at least 2 hours before having to leave. It gives me time to drink my coffee and do my bathroom dashes. Usually I am good to go for rest of the day, unless I eat something that triggers peristalsis. I'm pretty careful what I eat tho so that doesn't happen.
Posted 10/22/2012 4:17 PM (GMT 0)
I wake up at varied times, no strict schedule (should have one about sleep/wake-up...one day).
I eat (orange, boiled egg, toast, coffee), do a few things, computer and somewhere in there I have my bm. Sometimes, depending on how much and what I've eaten the day before, I might have a second small one within a half hour.

Nothing for the rest of the day. If I don't have a second bm in the morning..sometimes I'll have one in the evening (again depending on what I've eaten the day before).

I have no urgency unless signals have started and I've waited too long. I don't want to hold it unless I have to because that's one thing I need to do before getting ready for the day.

When I'm flaring...different story. Urgency and frequency.

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Posted 10/22/2012 4:36 PM (GMT 0)
In the last months, the moment I moved my body to get up, I would need to dash to the toilet asap. There was always this fear that I would need to go again right when I was heading to the car. Sometimes I would need to go again, sometimes I didn't need to go again.

Now, in the last week or so I no longer need to go asap right when I get up. I'm also getting formed stools for the first time in months! Ask me if I did anything different, the answer is no. I haven't done a thing in the past 2 weeks. I kinda just let the UC do its thing. The only explanation is that I caught a cold recently. Go figure.
Posted 10/22/2012 4:50 PM (GMT 0)
My mornings have returned to normal over the last week or so. Wake up at 4, get a workout in. Get ready and take my pills, leave for work, and usually have my first bm around 730, then usually a second around 200, and then I am good for the day. The weekend I usually don't get up till 7 or so, and usually still have my bm around 730. When flaring it was a lot more frequent, and it didn't matter what time of day.
Posted 10/22/2012 5:12 PM (GMT 0)

There's a Dunkin Donuts about 1/4 mile down the street from my house that I've stopped at in the mornings a number of times when a 3rd poop is suddenly essential. Haha I've even felt guilty enough to buy from them on a few occasions for their bathroom's convenience to me.

I've done the same thing!  It's gotten to the point where when they see me walk in they get my order ready so by the time I am done, I have fresh doughnuts waiting for me! (I never eat them though, I give them to my parents).

Posted 10/22/2012 5:52 PM (GMT 0)
Usually get the urge to go around 5:30am and it's usually brown sludge. Then go back to sleep til around 6:30am when I get up for work. Usually go twice more over the course of the next hour. Go to work, usually feel pretty good til about 4:00 and go again then once more ebfore bed and start over. Weekends are sometimes a little different. Wonder if it is because I don;t have the extra stres of going to work so the bowles are a little less active but not too much different, maybe one less movement on weekends as compared to weekdays.
Posted 10/22/2012 6:36 PM (GMT 0)

butte1 said...
Weekends are sometimes a little different. Wonder if it is because I don;t have the extra stres of going to work so the bowles are a little less active but not too much different, maybe one less movement on weekends as compared to weekdays.


I've often wondered about weekends too. I always tend to do better (less bms) on weekends. I'm sure you're right that part of it is mental (I don't have to get in a car 1st thing in the morning, a time when I have to go the most).
Posted 10/22/2012 8:32 PM (GMT 0)
Turtlepower thank you for starting this thread, I feel I am not alone. My day is just like yours. I read all these posts and it makes me cry, seriously how does anyone not? It's so fricken sad we live our life like this!!!!

Please may there be a cure found soon or so medication that is tolerable without so many side effects!

Thanks again though, I know I'm not alone and that my poo is not too much different that what everyone is experiencing.

Posted 10/22/2012 9:30 PM (GMT 0)
Wow! So many similarities yet so many differences . . .

 Only 2 or 3 days a week do I have BM's. Usually every 4 days. If I drink coffee or consume any caffeine, the BM's usually begin. (Like the donut comment, sometimes that caffeine helps me to go.) The meds have reduced the blood to only every now and then, thankfully.

So weird, the car thing . . . Seems like it isn't mind over matter (or I could control it), but when driving half an hour to work, the car route is determined by where the closest restroom's location might be.  For the past year or so, 6 - 7 times but lately about 10 trips. Like others with the big C side, it is difficult to begin with flat not formed stools. Straining like having a baby (I've had 5 with similar pain--especially left-side and burning rectal pain).

 Of course, NO,NO, No eating especially when leaving the house until I get where I'm going and know that the BR is close by. Once the BR trips begin, it's so unpredictable and takes hours and multiple trips! Toward the final visits, coffee-grounds-looking or cocounut looking splattery stools and mucos indicates I'm close to finishing. The final couple of visits are mucos and urgency wtihout much produced. TMI! Sorry!

When I began the slippery elm and metamucil, I actually had a few days with formed stools and a few regular BM's without the multiple visits! Even a BM or 2 after eating regular meals.  I'm hoping that means with time, I will get better and better and be able to go back to teaching. I miss working and sure need my income back!

I think this was a really informative thread that helps to see what others' mornings are like.

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