Badder issues and UC

Can UC affect the bladder too?

I'm becoming a hypochondriac. What else can this freakin disease do!

First off, I've had a problem with urgency and peeing for years. about two weeks ago I had an incident where I nearly peed myself while I was out walking the dog. The urge went away for me when I sat down. I was able to get to a toilet about 10 minutes later but when I went, I felt really nauseas. It's the same nausea I feel when I have a BM now (particularly if there is any form to it). So that was the first incident and I've been feeling that sensation more and more frequently. Tonight, I can feel a constant discomfort from my bladder and that same nausea.

I'm tapering prednisone too. @25 mg down from 40 now. BMs are becoming tolerable, mostly in the morning.

UC doesn't affect the bladder, but it sounds as though you might have a urinary tract or bladder infection. Definitely get it checked out asap.

The nausea could be from the bladder/urinary tract spasming.

The other happy diddy to the autoimmune party could be interstitial cystitis. There seems a correlation with it and UC, as one urologist told me.

Absolutely get checked for possible infection.

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I didn't nearly have an accident, but when I was in the hospital with UC I specifically told the doctors that I felt like I had to pee constantly. They tested me for UTI's but the tests came back negative. They said it was probably pressure being put on my bladder.

But you've had this problem before UC. Have you ever considered going to a urologist?

Last year I got my GP to test me twice for bladder infections....always negative, but I had to urinate frequently and didn't completely empty. It has gone away since then.... Not sure why. My UC was not under control at the time nor is it now.

Lodi,

I have had UC for over a decade and have also experienced similar problems with dysuria/incontinence for several year, probably at least as long as I have had UC. It seems like it has gotten progressively worse over the last 10 years or so. At first I thought I had a UTI, sometimes it would burn terribly when I peed, but then that symptom would disappear usually disappear within a few hours after it occurred. It would often feel like I would have pee 5 minutes after I just went. Sometimes, it is extremely difficult to hold it in, or once I get the to the bathroom it takes forever to feel like I have finished peeing and many times it feels like I still had to pee and have to wait there for the last few drops that seem like they take forever to come out.

I have been tested for UTI's several times and none have ever come back positive, CAT scans have always been negative as well, recently also have had my prostate checked again and it's still normal.

I know it's hard not to feel like a hypochondriac, I felt the same way. I have all kinds of symptoms that are seemingly unrelated to UC, but you regardless it's important to mention all of these symptoms to your doctor. There are a lot of co-morbid disease associated with UC. In my case, all these symptoms finally led to a diagnosis of Acute Intermittent Porphyria which has a known association with some cases of UC.