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Posted 5/29/2008 1:45 PM (GMT 0)
If anyone has any idea or suggestions about why I have had severe pancolitis for over 3 years and the only time I experienced pain in my bowl movements was during an antibiotic caused flare. I only had pain then for about 2 months.

Could it be that my inflamation is not "severe?" During flares I have lots of bloody D, but it is just amazing to me that I never feel any discomfort. I am just thinking if I am doing something right that I need to keep doing or is this just the norm for a type of UC.

 

Posted 5/29/2008 2:13 PM (GMT 0)
In my first flare and by far the worse, I had no pain what so ever. My second flare, which was the shortest, I had the most pain.
Posted 6/1/2008 5:31 PM (GMT 0)
I've had pretty severe flares but no stomache pain. Last fall I was getting severe headaches, I have arthrithis in my back from UC ... so lots of other pains but nothing due to my colon. Weird, no? So I guess it's not too unusual. Let's just be grateful!!

Meesh

Posted 6/1/2008 6:12 PM (GMT 0)
What do you guys mean by "no pain." Do you not have cramping? Is it just that you go a lot during the day (with blood)? Do you have cramping and urgency to go when you have to? I'm just trying to see where you guys are coming from when you say that you have no pain.
Posted 6/1/2008 9:29 PM (GMT 0)
It seems that each flare has it's own personality. My first flare was just bloody D, several times a day. With the 2nd flare came the urgency and tenesemus (sp?) and the crazy need to be near a bathroom at all times. With the 3rd flare came pain (horrible cramps), fever and nausea. They got worse each time for me. I started steroid enemas about 8-9 days ago and am JUST starting to feel halfway normal again - Yeah! Hoping this does the trick to get me back into full remission. But to answer your question, YEP, I've had flares w/ no pain.
Posted 6/1/2008 10:21 PM (GMT 0)

I had UC for 12 years and never had the typical pain associated with it.  Subsequently I lost my colon due to the disease, yet still I never had pain.  You can be severely ill and not have pain.  I have since learned that nothing about UC is consistent, predictable, or even the same from person to person.

Sue

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