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Posted 6/20/2014 2:27 AM (GMT 0)
How do you determine if its from hemmies or if its your colon bleeding? I saw blood on the tp twice today. I saw a speck or two in the toilet too. I've never had blood...except right after biopsies. My bm's are formed right now. I've been having 1-3 a day, except today was four and the fourth one was not formed, just mush. Like a toothpaste type consistency, but a huge volume of it and mega cramps preceded it. I'm still alternating between my enemas/suppositories and have improved (was@pure liquid every movement). I'm thinking its hemroids since my stool quality has now improved and seeing blood on tp. What do you think? (I'm still taking my metamucil to keep things soft and moving) and haven't gone a day without pooping so don't think I'm constipated...but I dunno.
Posted 6/20/2014 3:30 AM (GMT 0)
I think most innies will have to be dx'd by a doc/scope -

I'm assuming you would have already discovered if it was an outie -

give it a few days and you'll probably know if it's a flare or not -
Posted 6/20/2014 3:35 PM (GMT 0)
Soy is right, a drs examination is needed to tell between internal hemmies and uc bleeding. External hemorrhoids pop out of your bung hole, so you'd know if you had one.

Mushy poops are usually a sign of uc inflammation. The more inflamed your large intestine is, the less formed a poop is.

One can get blood from straining while pooping, from a tear for inserting a enema tip or suppository, from a polyp, from uc inflammation. It can happen from a variety of things.
Posted 6/20/2014 5:28 PM (GMT 0)
The spec or two in the toilet...meaning on stool?

You might have a fissure....you could take a look-see yourself by squatting and using a mirror.

With you having a more mushy poo after the others, could be food-related if you had something yesterday that could cause a looser/softer stool.

I'd suggest upping the enemas for a while to nightly to see if it improves.

The fact that you're having the cramping before a bm...is it rectally?

How much Metamucil?

q
Posted 6/20/2014 6:15 PM (GMT 0)
I can usually determine based on other symptoms. If i am having some urgency and increased frequency, it often has to do with inflammation. If it's a fissure, it would probably hurt a ton when you have a movement. The only other thing it could be is an internal hemmie but I wouldn't consider that, for myself, unless blood was my ONLY symptom. That's usually not the case for me, it's usually blood and some urgency or mush... it sounds like you had blood and some mush, might be a little bit of inflammation. Doesn't mean you're going to go into a crazy flare up. It may turn around.
Posted 6/20/2014 6:22 PM (GMT 0)
I have a recurring fissure, no pain. So, that's not always a determiner. It's small....but still bleeds.

q
Posted 6/20/2014 8:35 PM (GMT 0)
Not sure to be honest, I think if you give it a couple of days you will get your answer, either way its a blow!
Posted 6/20/2014 9:07 PM (GMT 0)
Hmm, lots of great info, thanks guys. The blood was in the bowl with poop, not just blood, and there was some on the TP. It's bright red blood, so it's got to be lower down right? I'm taking 5 metamucil a day 2+3). It's not an external hemmie, which surprised me. The big hem that usually pops out was still just like a flap of skin. Yeah, I might have been straining a bit on BM. The three poops before the mush poop were formed but kind of piecey almost pebble like but bigger. Maybe I was backed up. I'm hoping it was that and not inflammation narrowing things up in there. darn. Well, I'm on the butt meds and symptoms are improving overall. I will baby my guts for a bit and see which direction it goes. I will have to google fissure. I assumed I'd have rectal pain with a fissure, and I don't, but Q is saying she has one without pain. Aye aye aye. So complicated!

Thanks for the input!
Posted 6/22/2014 6:27 PM (GMT 0)
Right post for me today...I woke up just this morning and had my 2 BM's, formed, but for the first time in 3 years saw a diluted watery patch of blood on my TP bout an inch round ...I just got over a thyroid storm this month thatb rocked my world, and seeing the blood today really pissed me off...So I looked at the BM movement itself, and saw just a tiny spot of red blood on top of the BM, (I was using an out door dry toilet)...I have noticed I have been straining more then usual the last 3 weeks or so to get the Poop out of the shoot...So Im hoping its just some hemorrhoids. I haven't had any other symptoms other then the patch of diluted blood, and having to push a bit harder to evacuate the poops for the last 3 weeks, and a very slight dull pain about a few inches up my butt... But blood always gets my attention...I hope your just having hemmies...
Posted 6/22/2014 8:44 PM (GMT 0)
Hi jazz, hoping yours is just hemmies too. I'm not sure what mine was/is but it hasnt come back since that one day. So odd.
Posted 6/22/2014 9:10 PM (GMT 0)
with uc, odd IS normal turn
Posted 6/22/2014 9:37 PM (GMT 0)
Food, stress, environmental stuff, who knows...Its insane....
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