Hi i was first diagnosed with UC when i was 20 years old. I remember seeing bleeding in my stool i went to the doctor he told me it was hemariods so i was taking meds for it and the bleeding stopped. For about
a week... then one day i woke up couldn't get out of bed and
had abdominal pains they felt like my insides were tearing apart and to make maters worse my health card ran out so about 3 months later of bleeding every 15-20min and pain weight loss and fatigue i took some perks and tylenol 3s and went back to the doctor who got me to get a colonoscopy were they told me i had UC. I seen the specialist once were i was given asacol and everything was fine i felt good no bleeding didn't have to change my diet only thing i had always was fatigue after 8 years i decide i'm going to enrol in kickboxing with my son you know a father and son bonding thing it was a 2 hour class of hard cardio and the following day my UC came back stronger then ever before and my asacol don't seem to work. But a friend of mine who has UC told me my symptoms were not a flair up it was hemroids he ask if the blood was bright red and it is and i seem to have a lot of gas and a strange liquid that comes out with the gas its light light brown so its not blood from what i know and its to light to be stool. My specialist retired and i havenT been able to see another one i'm trying to exercise
will doing sit-ups and such make it worse and how can you tell the difference from hemroids and ulcerative colitis flair ups