Ulcerative Colitis Help (Again)

garylouisville said...
You should post your past and present treatments. Of course it is not good to pass undigested food. You should tell your doctor. You may have to quit the chicken for a while.

Also, the undigested part is with every meat.
Chicken, Beef, i haven't tried ish yet, but i might.
I'm kind of nervous to quit the meat all together because the protein thing, im not that good with knowing
many foods that contain a high amount of protein. Peanut butter bread, as i said in my last post seems to help
whenever i have those issues. But that's tiring. Tends to make you gag if you over do it.

garylouisville said...
Your doctor is not treating you properly. Your condition is too serious to do just enemas only. Obviously this is not working. That doesn't mean you should stop enemas but you definitely need to do something in addition. Don't wait as you will probably get worse and worse using just your current treatment plan.

It's true.
Last night i was in extreme pain to the point i almost cried...
Extreme pressure down there, then when i used the bathroom i passed too much blood,
I felt weak and ust went to sleep because i brushed it off as maybe i was sleepy,
I am anemic, however iron supplements do not help me .
MY mom asked how many enema's do i have left? but i had to actually tell her, i can only take those once,
and i have to take those AFTER a bowel movement.
Idk what else besides enema's to do..

momto2boys said...
I would call your doctor and let her know this treatment isn't working for you as soon as possible. (I would have that number ready to dial as soon as they open today)

Thank you, i'll do that

fruitgirl said...
It sounds like you need to be on oral mesalamine (Apriso, Lialda, Delzicol) as well and possibly a suppository. You could use the enemas at night and suppositories in the morning.

Or, maybe you need to add oral mesalamine and switch to a rectal steroid.

What is a rectal steroid?

fruitgirl said...
They're basically just like the mesalamine rectal meds, but contain steroid-based medication instead of mesalamine.

Aw man :( all of these things having to be inserted into my rectum

iPoop said...

MarieMyThoughts said...
Aw man :( all of these things having to be inserted into my rectum

lol, sadly a majority of things related to this disease involve something going into or coming out of one's bum. I think we're all a little queasy at first about the subject but now it's nothing for me.

If you are seeing undigested food in your stool, then that likely means that the 'transit time' in your intestine is speed up. When you are having a uc flareup, instead of food taking 24 hours to pass through your system it takes far less than that. The quicker the food moves through you, the less time it has to digest and yeah you sometimes see it undigested when it passes. The good news is that once you heal things slow down again and you won't see that anymore.

The feeling of having to go to the bathroom, and it not going away is also a sign of a uc flareup. I have days where I just ignore that feeling because it is there all day long. It's not like that everyday, but every once and a while and boy is it annoying. There are no remedies that I am aware of other than getting your uc inflammation under control.

Thank you for all the info.
I never knew anything about the instestine slowing down.. i never would've even guessed that

iPoop said...
Yeah the speed of your digestive tract is variable and can be much faster and much slower.

I wouldn't exclude certain foods entirely just because you are seeing them in your stool, as you are still getting some nutrients from them (just not all of those nutrients if they are passing through you somewhat intact). You can try cooking things more thoroughly as that makes them much more easy to digest. You can try chewing things more thoroughly or perhaps chopping or pureeing things up a lot more before eating them.

Thanks, as of lately, i've been able to down thngs like pork chops and SOME chicken....
But beef is STILL a no go for some odd reason....
it's very odd, but interesting how this thing works....