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Posted 5/22/2009 2:21 AM (GMT 0)
Can anyone tell me why some of my bms are normal and then others are narrow and rope like?

I'm thinking I don't need to worry since they are not consistently skinny -right?
Posted 5/22/2009 2:52 AM (GMT 0)
My BMs aren't as well-formed when I drink decaf coffee, especially when I don't have any food in my system. I know I need to stop drinking it...

Perhaps, your colon is responding to certain foods. Keep a food diary to see if the occasional narrow stools are in reaction to certain foods in your diet.
Posted 5/22/2009 3:48 AM (GMT 0)
many of us don't have formed stoll at all.

Mine are tiny little worms. (ugh graphic)

Posted 5/22/2009 4:43 AM (GMT 0)
UniG, I know what you mean and it's very frustrating when it happens, there are times when I'll have a nice and fairly normal sized stool come out and then these skinny narrow ones follow all in the same "sitting", weirds me out for sure...must just be the nature of the beast.

:)
Posted 5/22/2009 5:31 AM (GMT 0)
Probably from a narrowed rectum/anal opening caused by inflammation, stress, IBS...all of which can cause pencil/ribbon stools. If one's inflammation/UC/IBS affects higher/above the rectum, diarrhea would be a symptom, not a more formed stool.

If it's related to a UC flare, rectal meds will help.

Make sure you're eating enough and taking in enough fluids, and fibre supplements will help to keep the stool at least softer/ bulkier making it easier to pass through an inflamed/constricted butt.

quincy
Posted 5/22/2009 1:12 PM (GMT 0)
Definitely caused by inflammation.

Sue
Posted 5/22/2009 1:19 PM (GMT 0)
Also colon spasms and/or hemmies flaring up.
Posted 5/22/2009 4:09 PM (GMT 0)
thanks so much for all of your responses . Sometimes I think I know a lot about this disease and then I realize I don't...
Now that I'm thinking along the lines of inflammation a food diary is a good idea. Perhaps if I can figure out what foods trigger skinny poo then maybe, just maybe i f can figure out how to get in remission....

Uni-g
Posted 5/22/2009 5:21 PM (GMT 0)
Mine are "ropey" I think because I avoid fiber. I'll have to see what happens with a little fiber now that I'm on Remicade.
Posted 5/22/2009 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
foods won't trigger skinny poos.....the fact that you're flaring is what's the problem.

The rectum is the last part to heal, and it will heal in a fashion opposite of a flare.

Constipation is a symptom of flaring as well...just not recognised....

Since you are getting enough fibre, maybe considering a stool softener will help....make sure you are taking in enough food altogether...eat more often during the day as well as fluids.

The Salfoalk enema....give it time.

q

Posted 5/22/2009 11:26 PM (GMT 0)
I was newly diagnosed with internal hemmies and since then, I experience narrow stools too (and burning butt, but that is another story). So hemmies are definitely one of the many answers to why you can have ribbon-style stool.
Posted 5/23/2009 1:54 AM (GMT 0)
One of my sisters has IBS only (I have CD and IBS) and she really notices when she eats things she shouldn't (fried foods, greasy foods too much coffee and sugar) she gets skinny poops until she straightens her diet out again.

:)
Posted 5/23/2009 7:13 PM (GMT 0)
True with IBS...not enough bulk/fibre can cause a slower moving bowel and "wimpy" stools. That in effect for me could cause stress mentally in not having a good bm.

Does your sis take fibre supplements as well pb?
q
Posted 5/23/2009 9:25 PM (GMT 0)
Quincy. how is constipation a sign of a flare?? Just curious.
Lynn
colitis x7yrs. on asacol, canasa suppository, imuran, fish oil, prozac, vitamin, metamucil.
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