Doctor Today... Again!

So I see the doctor as a followup to my phone-in script for oral prednisone three weeks ago (after rectal wasn't working). He started me on 30mg which helped for like, 3 days and then I was back to bleeding. I never got to even moderately solid BMs.
Yesterday, I had an incident of not making it to the bathroom in time. Mortifying, but at least it happened at home, and I could clean up fairly easily. Since then, lots of blood (and some looking like old blood), pain, and nausea. No fever. And a few more near-misses with urgency.

The last time I talked to the doctor, he said my problem must be in the rectum, because he saw nothing further up in my scope in October. Should I request a sigmoidoscopy? Since a colonoscopy doesn't give a good picture of the rectum... and he is convinced it is rectal, wouldn't a rigid sigmoidoscopy give a better picture of what is going on?

He also talked about putting me on Imuran finally (we talking first about it in September, but the scope in October came back "clean" so we never moved forward with it). I know that it takes about 6 months to reach a therapeutic level in the body, so what can I expect between now and then?

Thanks guys. I have been sick pretty much since March of last year. I am so tired of being sick. I can't sleep at night because I am up in the bathroom. I can't plan things because I am in the bathroom. It doesn't matter what I eat, what I don't eat... though some things are obviously worse than others (broccoli I am looking at you!). Even my Asacol is not being dissolved entirely, often showing up (apparently) whole.

The other thing one of my friends mentioned, and I have mentioned before, is Cdiff. I know it is usually pretty intense, and I haven't been on antibiotics. But it got me thinking that maybe there is something other than the colitis going on... something bacterial or viral or SOMETHING. Because I am not getting better for more than a week at a time, even with 50mg prednisone.

I'm convinced broccoli is EVIL!

Hey Vanilla,

If you're looking to try something, I just posted on my experience with Wild Oregano/Thyme Oil. Here is the link www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2970239

I know others have tried this for straight UC and not had success, but others with alternative conditions have found some relief, in some cases quite dramatic relief. So maybe it would be worth you trying. Or at least worth a shot if you're running low on options.

PS - I hear ya on the stool sample kits... I remember when I first opened the brown lunch bag that the nurse gave me and looked in at a Popsicle stick and small bottle. I was like wow, you folks really have no idea whatsoever what it's like to have this condition and just handed it right back to them and skipped the test. So brutal.