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What's a typical day like for your UC? Total bms, any urgency?

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Posted 4/21/2018 1:47 PM (GMT 0)
What's a typical day like with your UC? We mostly read about those who are flaring badly, many offer his/her suggestions to help but seldom talk about their own UC. So how are you doing? Total bms, any urgency? Does it impact your quality of life?

I'm 1-2 bms a day, solid, no urgency. Likely the 'R' word if it wasn't for occasional blood on tp, but I suspect hemmeroids. UC makes me worry first hour or two of the day then I'm free! Might be more PTSD from flares of yore than anything else regarding my worries.
Posted 4/21/2018 2:19 PM (GMT 0)
For myself a typical day is 6 to 8 Bms per day mainly early morning .
After starting Entyvio I am now producing solid stools but still some urgency on occasions

i have never had blood all the time I have had Uc (16 years ).
Still have to be careful what I eat but life is liveable

Post Edited (limey) : 4/23/2018 8:03:01 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/21/2018 2:50 PM (GMT 0)
Typical day, wake up 7:30AM and have a soft BM, no urgency or blood, pop a canasa and go to work. Pretty normal day, besides stomach noises and abdominal pain. Then i usually have another BM as soon as i get home 5:30PM - mush, have some rectal pain. Workout, do whatever, do an enema and go to sleep.

QoL is at like 85-90% pre UC. Today is my first day of tapering to 15mg prednisone.
Posted 4/22/2018 12:33 AM (GMT 0)
I am tapering off of Pred currently and am down to 10 am and 10 pm. If I take my antispasmodic, I am likely to go 4 to 5 times with varying degrees of urgency. If I don't take the antispasmodic, I go 7 to 14 times. I have my first non loading dose of Entyvio on Monday, so hopefully that will improve things more. I go first thing in the morning 1 to 2 times, then life feels pretty normal until around 3 to 6 depending on the day. Deal with the most problems evening and night. Still waking up anywhere from 1 to 4 times in the night.
Posted 4/22/2018 9:11 AM (GMT 0)
I think my flare was on its way out, but then serious family illness happened + no sleep + massive anxiety. Now I'm at 3-5 BMs a day (two of those are usually formed), sometimes blood, some not, only occasional urgency, plus left side discomfort when I do too much bending. I've upped the VSL which is helping and am still eating modified SCD, but yup I could really do without this atm.

iPoop: nice to see you're doing well!
Posted 4/22/2018 7:44 PM (GMT 0)
Usually 2x/day, sometimes 2-3...but still have some lingering inflammation.
I’m probably about 80% back to normal. Work every day, getting to kids stuff...we have 4 playing sports right now, and even back to boot camp a few weeks ago.

When in remission, which is hopefully right around the corner, outside of a few extra aches and pains and meds, life isn’t much difference than pre-UC.
Posted 5/2/2018 3:58 PM (GMT 0)
Usually (when in Remission) I am very good, formed stool 1 time per day, either right after getting up (which is normal) or after working out, small amounts of mucous left sometimes but only tiny bits.
Right now I feel like I am perfectly fine. I can do Yoga, I can go running, no pains at all, I feel perfectly healthy. I was pretty bad a few weeks back, I feel colloidal silver has helped me heal super quick. Even the painful haemorrhoids have gone (or at lest healed? But I can feel them anymore).

When in a flare I usually still have hard stools (like constipation) but loads of mucous and a lot of blood. Then I can go 5-15 times per day, most times just to pass mucous and blood. Sometimes stool is more soft or very soft. I then feel its very hard to pass the actual stool, meanwhile the rest is coming out all time.
Most times I still feel pretty good though, only when I am in a really bad flare I feel my life is affected. But then I just plan ahead, like where are toilets etc.
I dont get a lot of pain, just when I am really bad, but a lot of gas which can't pass.
Posted 5/2/2018 4:50 PM (GMT 0)
Usually I go 1-2 times a day, usually normal poop apart for some occasional mucus and no urgency. I am usually up by 5:30 am and go within the first hour that I wake up. I do still deal with some colon grumbling and the occasional gas pains, but I have always had that. sometimes I have a little bit of swelling of external hemmies if I have been sitting for too long on any given day, but I just deal with it and try and soak in Epsom salted water for a little while before I go to bed. I still obsess about my poop every day, I don't think that will ever stop, though!
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