Possible flair after colonoscopy

I was in remission for about six months .... on Prednisone and Lialda.. Had some uncomfortable feeling.. as though a brick were in my upper stomach.. Had a colonoscopy in July.. Dr. felt it was necessary to have another colonoscopy and endoscopy yesterday to see what was going on.. Said my colon looked pretty good..
Now, however, having blood in my stool .. Dr wants me to have an ultra- sound and if that shows nothing..
a cat scan...If my colon showed no active disease .. Do you think the colonoscopy could have flared me again!!
I was resistant to have the colonoscopy .. Should have followed my heart !!!

I had 44 biopsies taken last Friday. When I let out the air, it was bloody. I also had a ton of mucus that day.

Maybe a 2nd opinion would not have found it necessary to get a colonoscopy yesterday if you already had one six months earlier last July. I am glad that the result was your colon “looked pretty good”.

I was deep into remission when I decided that I needed a colonoscopy since it had been some time since my last one. Soon I started having diahrrea again.

But when I looked at the ingredients of the prep I saw junk like maltodextrin, polisorbate 80, and other of my sure-fire triggers for inflammation. After a few days of my mainstay, powdered psyllium seed, I was back to normal.

I take pseed because I can’t tolerate meds. I think most people can quickly get back to normal with their regular meds, as long as they avoid the inflammatory triggers.

Yes, colonoscopies can cause flares, but you have to wait a while to know if it's just irritation from all the prep and biopsies, or you're actually flaring.

My flares from colonoscopies usually start about 2 weeks later. It's like a slow cascade builds until finally my inflammation gets out of control.

1 in 8 people flare from scopes. It's not something GI doctors tell you when they state the risks of scoping. People get told that 1 in 1000 scopes cause perforation, but they never tell you that scopes can cause an exacerbation. In fact, my GI doctor wouldn't even acknowledge that being scoped cause me to flare. He acted like there was no connection.

You can decrease the chances by taking a lot of probiotic after the scope. The scope prep usually washes away the flora and leaves the bowel irritated to begin with. Then you add injury from biopsies and sometimes that's enough to flare. Just treat your bowel really well with extra care after a scope and it should be OK.