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Posted 10/5/2008 6:05 PM (GMT 0)
The last week (or more) it's definitely been food that's causing me issues. Within two hours of eating there is a bathroom dash. It doesn't matter what I eat...

I have urgency. I have formed stools. I'm confused. I've never had the two together before. 3-4 bms a day. Sometimes more.

I have a Remi infusion on Tuesday and a scope on the 13th. I hope some answers come my way.

My ever active brain is coming up with so many scenarios I have to tell it to STOP! Too many meds? Is it all of the stress? Is it something I'm doing? Is it something I'm not doing? Can you see the anxiety?!?! Should I even try to modify meds, etc until the stress is gone? It's a few more weeks before the evil test is over...

I am very aware that things have been and could be worse. I am thankful things are getting better and not getting worse.

I just had to vent to those who would understand!
Posted 10/5/2008 6:18 PM (GMT 0)
That's how it is for me which is why I say I can eat anything I want, but instead I've chosen to eat all healthy instead because I know it's better for my overall health and dealing with crohn's and IBS is more than enough, but I think the fact that I'm eating all healthy is probably better for my CD and my IBS too.

I totally understand and I'm sure many others do as well...thing is with some people their symptoms are almost instantly worse whey they eat their no no foods, but even for those who completely avoid their no no foods that doesn't mean they are in better shape symptom wise from their UC, just maybe more tolerable.

:)
Posted 10/5/2008 6:38 PM (GMT 0)
An inflamed colon will react quicker to any food anywhere in the digestive tract. What goes in triggers the process/peristalsis.
If you have stool in the sigmoid or it's eventually moved to the rectum, you'll have a bm. Even if it's pooled blood....

It's not the food, per se, it's the very act of eating and digestion.

You're not on rectal meds....why?

You could consider to add a fibre supplement to bulk up the stool...that could help as well.

Stress (subjective) can definitely increase bowel activity...it can also encourage inflammation if it's already festering.



q

Posted 10/5/2008 8:20 PM (GMT 0)
     I ate cole slaw for lunch.  Just placed a little in my turkey sandwich....wow, am I ever paying for it this afternoon...*sigh*
Posted 10/5/2008 9:04 PM (GMT 0)

I'm the exact same, dakota girl- I have urgency, I have totally formed stools. Soft, I suppose, but entirely formed. And yeah, it's about 2 hours after I eat, generally. Aside from my morning trips, which are numerous & filled with the same- urgent formed stools, that about sums up my day. I don't know what's going on.... I've learned to deal with it. I'm usually around a bathroom a couple hours after I eat anyways. I've got an infusion this week also, on Thursday.

Posted 10/5/2008 10:53 PM (GMT 0)
Q - no rectal meds right now. I've been reacting poorly to them. Earlier this year I could not retain the Rowasa. I tried the Cortenemas more recently, but they gave me horrid gas pains and I wasn't seeing a difference with them. I don't know what's changed with my body. In 2007 I had great luck with Rowasa and thought it would be my magic "pill"!

I've considered fiber, but things are pretty well bulked. I think it's just the peristalsis - and it's seriously mixed up!

Eva Lou - up same thing. Two or three trips in the morning. Immediately when I wake up, then about an hour later as I'm attempting to leave the house! Possibly a third about an hour after I get to work. Then again about two hours after lunch and again after supper. It's not so bad during the week - easy bathroom access at work. (although I keep ditching conversations to run to the bathroom - people are starting to think I'm just rude! except my close work friends - they know.) It's the weekends when hubby and I are trying to run errands or eat out that is causing me problems. Oh! The long drive a week or so ago wasn't pleasant either. The lack of warning time meant I had to yell "stop now!" and bail out of the truck. Thankfully things have improved (slightly - formed up) since then.

I'm so confused! The flares this year have been so different from those in the past. This disease is trying my patience.
Posted 10/5/2008 11:33 PM (GMT 0)
Yep, I'm going through the same thing. I have absolute urgency after breakfast and sometimes urgency after lunch, and I have formed stools. I keep myself in bathroom mode until 1 pm.
Posted 10/5/2008 11:58 PM (GMT 0)
It's funny that you said "IT'S NOT WHAT I EAT, IT'S THAT I EAT" I used to same the same thing when I was in a really bad flare, my colon just didn't want to have anything in it at all.
Posted 10/6/2008 12:13 AM (GMT 0)
Personally I still side with the researchers that have NOT ruled out foods as being a trigger, especially certain foods, as they've listed, processed-foods, fast-foods, msg, caffeine, refined sugar, sugar substitutes/artificial sweetners, animal fats can all exacerbate symptoms, the more bad bacteria the worse the symptoms can get and sugar is a huge culprit for feeding bad bacterial.

:)
Posted 10/6/2008 3:13 AM (GMT 0)
I was going to ask about caffeine. I have lots of urgent formed stools when I consume caffeine, even in tea. You might want to eliminate that while you are having this problem, including chocolate.

Also, sometimes when I feel I just need to reset my guts I will go on a liquid/near liquid diet for a day or two. You might try that.

Finally, when I have the same issue I take antispasmodics or half an immodium dose. It lessens the number of trips and gets rid of the constant gotta go feeling.
Posted 10/6/2008 5:04 AM (GMT 0)
Dawn...definitely do the Bentyl (dicyclomine) with wonky spasmodic peristalsis....

Don't do the imodium...imobiliser compared to calming down the spasms.

Fibre will also help even the peristalsis causing it to "work" better rather than react.

q
Posted 10/6/2008 8:57 AM (GMT 0)
In all my 51 yrs here on this good earth did I ever think that I would be so obsessed by my movements and food. Can I eat this/can I do that - who knows, we'll see. Saturday the D was like an open faucet and Sunday not one movement. This a.m. formed but mucus. Can't sleep - husband snoring! Feeling nauseated. Oh my, life is good!

Gigi1227
Posted 10/6/2008 6:25 PM (GMT 0)

FitzyK23 said...
I was going to ask about caffeine. I have lots of urgent formed stools when I consume caffeine, even in tea. You might want to eliminate that while you are having this problem, including chocolate.

Caffeine is known to get the bowels moving... even in healthy people, so you know IBDers are going to be even more sensitive to it.
Posted 10/6/2008 9:19 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah, I agree with Fitzy RE caffeine. It can send me running, especially strong black coffee. Sorry to read that you have urgency, DG. Try some deep breathing exercises to calm the stress. / Old Hat (nearly 30 yrs with left-sided UC ... [etc.])

Posted 10/7/2008 6:40 PM (GMT 0)
Caffine is bad stuff. I try to avoid it whenever possible. I know I'm getting it from iced tea at lunch. I've switched to water recently and haven't noticed much of a difference.

I'm hoping my Remi treatment today helps the problem.

Positive thinking - tomorrow will be better.
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