Does normal blood results mean your not sick?

Consider yourself lucky that you aren't too far gone yet. I was flaring for a whole year before I ever got treated. My cbc chem profile test looked like a horror story. You really have to find a way of getting some rectal meds into the equation too. They have lidocain enemas, 5-asa enemas, and entocort enemas. We are all a bit depressed with this disease, it's normal. But when you start to go in remission you feel like a million dollars.

Normal blood tests are a good thing, but they don't mean you aren't sick. They show that you aren't anemic from the bleeding, aren't developing liver problems that sometimes go with IBD, and that's very positive. If your blood-making system keeps up with your bleeding, you don't get anemic. If not, you might need iron supplements or even transfusion.

If you really feel that your GI thinks you're not as sick as you are, consider another GI. My first one thought because I wasn't losing weight I wasn't that sick. I guess because of that he didn't believe I was going 20-25 times a day, in a lot of pain and barely able to drag myself through the day at work. I changed and found a wonderful doctor who totally believes me and was as frustrated as I that I was so sick from "just" left-sided UC.

I hope you feel better soon, butterfly.

Have you not used the rectal meds at all? or just sometimes?

Definitely use them.
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