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Posted 4/18/2014 8:11 AM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone! Today I have backpain along with tummy pain and nausea.
My stool is going from small pebbles to soft but not diarreha, their is mucos and what I think is maroon blood. I have chills on and off but no temp.
I haven't been feeling right for sometime now and am still trying to figure out if I'm in a flare.

Last night my tummy was making really loud noises at the dinner table that my family could hear it as well.
Sometimes when I need to go the stool comes rushing out because of the gas I'm guessing

No diarreha at present.
Have yellow mucos and every now and the I see blood in the mucos but can see a maroon blood on stool.

So I guess my question is

So does anyone else get backpain from their uc or could i have an infection brewing inside my bowel?
Posted 4/18/2014 11:27 AM (GMT 0)
I always get lower back pain (just left of my spine) when I'm flaring.
Posted 4/18/2014 12:20 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you for your reply tap. I have only noticed this once before and that was a year ago when I was put in hospital for fulimant colitis. I hope that its not that again this time.
I have been putting on a muscle rub to help with the pain which seems to work for a short time then it comes back. Will have to keep track of when it comes and goes.
Posted 4/18/2014 1:23 PM (GMT 0)
Lower back pain is always my signal that I'm having a little blip in my remission. Since I can't use Mesalamine, I start hydrocortisone suppositories as soon as I feel it for the second day in a row.

Your inflamed colon swells and pushes on everything. Also it will inflame and stretch the omentum (the membrane that supports the bowel in your abdomen), and this will cause pain. When I was flaring, sometimes my first indicator of an impending BM was a sudden and intense need to urinate - again, pressure from the swollen colon.

You are definitely flaring based on your symptoms. Time to touch base with your doctor.
Posted 4/18/2014 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
Sheree, Well I guest you got you answer about the lower back pain, the fact that you are starting a flare and that you need to contact your doctor. In the mean time maybe you could avoid dairy product and all that you find that makes your flares worse. Do you have any enema ? Or you were of off all meds ?
Posted 4/18/2014 5:38 PM (GMT 0)
I always had horrible lower back pain with a flare. I remember sitting with a heating pad on my lower back all the time.
Posted 4/18/2014 11:57 PM (GMT 0)
Thankyou for your responses


Judy2 that's what I thought might be happening. That my bowel was inflamed and pushing on everything else.

Chanterelle I don't have an enemas but I am on

Pentasa 2 grams daily
Azathioprine 150 mg a day

My dr reduced my meds in September last year because he said I should be in remission for a couple of years based on my last colonoscopy.. I've had nothing but problems since he reduced my meds. He keeps telling me it is ibs that's causing my problems because my colon looked really good in September.

I'm off to see the dr next week the 22 April and I am also waiting on an appointment to get a second opinion.
A surgeon to,d me that having the dr tell me I have ibs on top of uc is just an excuse so she told me to get a second opinion which I am going to do.
Thank you everyone for your responses :)
Posted 4/19/2014 12:32 AM (GMT 0)
sheree, I think you should let your doctor know that you want to go back to your regular maintenance dosage. I feel that just "because it looks good" doesn't mean nothing is there, as clearly you are uncomfortable.

But second opinions are definitely better. Trust me, I needed it from my very first GI. Oh and when you can, if you can tolerate them, ask for enemas as they are my life saver. I should have listened to Quincy a lot sooner.

For my lower back pain, I have scoliosis almost at the base of my spine so that also starts to hurt when the colon wants to be a pansy and inflame. :(
Posted 4/19/2014 1:22 AM (GMT 0)
Katarzyna thank you for your response.

I have sacroilitis or something like that can't remember but something to do with the spine as well.

I haven't been on enemas for sometime now. I know I can't use one as it causes really bad burning when I do. Think its the foam enemas but the liquid ones seem to bee ok.

I am also having alot of right sided pain which is not normal for my left sided uc. I also have patches of uc which is not normal also I have been told. So I had uc 50 cm then there was normal bowel then there was a patch located in the ascending colon.

I don't have chrons as they have tested many times they say its uc.
I just think I'm one of those cases no one can figure out yet :)
Posted 4/19/2014 1:24 AM (GMT 0)
I'm glad you have a second opinion lined up. I also had to do that with my first GI. I ended up transferring my care to the second GI, and it was the best thing I ever did. A lot of us have fired one or more GI's because they treat a book instead of us.
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