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Posted 9/22/2016 10:57 AM (GMT 0)
My last flare earlier this year had me going 15 times a day without fail and always with lots of blood.

However I am now having my second flare and its been very irregular. Some days i'm having lots of pain, lots of blood and going 3-4 times a day. And then some days I dont go at all?
I even ended up constipated for 4 days and then had a big amount of blood when I managed to have a BM.
Its really confusing me because I seem to get better then suddenly get bad again.

Has anybody else had this and what does it mean?
Thanks guys
Posted 9/22/2016 11:18 AM (GMT 0)
First, you should contact your gastroenterologist about your symptom change. He/she will want to do a stool test to look for pathogenic causes to your worsened symptoms, and might order a sigmoidoscopy with biopsies to answer: how far?, how severe?, and give you an appropriate treatment plan to beat your flare.

Constipation = inflammation. Especially if your talking proctitis (rectum only). While it's nice to skip a day, the day after that skip is always bad for me: more bms, less formed, and more urgent.
Posted 9/22/2016 12:28 PM (GMT 0)
I havent had this before and cant find much online about it, my colitis isnt in my rectum at all, its healthy,which confuses me more.. But I will be seeing somebody on Tuesday in hospital
Posted 9/22/2016 4:05 PM (GMT 0)
The whole notion is flares is that the disease will occasionally rear up - even when there is some maintenance treatment in place. From flare to flare the symptoms can easily vary a bit.

This sound fairly typical to me. But, I hope you get it tamed quickly.

good luck
Posted 9/22/2016 4:21 PM (GMT 0)
Ulcerative Colitis is defined by rectal involvement and distal (continuous) inflammation expanding from the rectum upward. I'd question the accuracy of your UC diagnosis and perhaps your new tests will reveal indeterminate-colitis, Crohn's disease, or Crohn's-colitis which are more likely given your description. Unless there's more going on than you know.

The only other explanation is our rectal medications can remove all signs of inflammation in the rectum. Heard of that one before. But if you're not using suppository or enema...

Get a copy of your colonoscopy and biopsy reports. There might be more valuable information within them.
Posted 9/22/2016 5:01 PM (GMT 0)
It behaves in every way Ulcerative Colitis does, even my last biopsies suggested UC because of no granuloma's. Maybe this is just an abnormality in my UC. I had another biopsy 2 weeks ago so I guess I'll just wait and see.
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