Having to go/urgency after eating? anyone else have this? afternoon?

Ok so im on colazol 4 a day 2 morn two night and 1000 miligram Canasa at night before bed. In the morning i dont have really any blood, i go once maybe twice in the morning. then when afternoon hits say around 4:00 after i eat lunch is when i get the urgency to go. Im fine up till then.anyone else have this as well? when i had my first flare i dont remember having the urgency in the afternoon.It would be in the morning and then done from what i can remember. Its like eating triggers my bowels to move. then there's blood. or nothing coming out but the urgency to go is there. i hate this crappp

I usually have all of my issues early in the morning or late at night. Interestingly enough, I was usually fine in the afternoon. I think it was because I was busy and didn't think about it as much. Food definitely triggers me to go, though, so depending on when and what I eat, I will still go. Maybe eat a good breakfast, "let it out" so to speak and have a light lunch so that you are not too bothered by the food. It's like starving ourselves- ugh!

Eating definitely stimulates the bowels, for everyone. We just notice it more and have urgency because our systems are more sensitive.
I never ate and then tried to take a walk or a car ride, because I could always expect some activity!
And if I was away from a restroom, I would not eat anything, not a bite. That's all it takes.

BTW, lettuce is my harshest trigger food. Try going without? I also can't eat high fiber or gluten/wheat. You might be causing yourself some trouble with your food choices.

When I was flaring I always had urgency after eating. I never ate. I lost tons of weight and was very unhealthy. I couldn't be running to the toilet all day.

For IBDers, eating can stimulate BM's but even on days you eat lightly your bowels will still be overstimulated cuz that is afterall the nature of the disease (beast)...jazzgtrl4 you are obviously flaring, not going more than 2 times in the am but having more frequency later in the day is just how your flare is behaving, flares can vary with symptoms each time you have a flare.

Before I got sick, eating never stimulated my bowels, I was like clock-work, basically pooped the same time everyday and only once a day with total bowel control (if I had to hold it I could with no problems or issues)....man I miss those days.

Try fibre supplements daily and see how that goes, it can help with cutting back daily BM's, it should help form your stools up more too, and if you find it's helping in anyway then stick with it indefinitely (as my GI directed me to do).

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As someone else said, when we eat, it affects the whole GI system and starts peristalsis throughout the intestines. So what we poop is not what we just ate, but whatever was lower in the system from an earlier meal. This thing, (the gastrocolic reflex, I believe?) is evident in babies - you feed them and have to change their diapers soon after!
With us and our inflamed systems it's more evident than in "normal" adults.
Some tips I read in a book from the ccfa decades ago: after eating, try to stay still a few minutes, breathe deeply and slowly, and sometimes that will calm your system down.
When I'm in remission, my poops are all clustered in the morning, but when I have any kind of inflammation (even if it's mild enough I wouldn't call it a big-deal flare) I also need to after meals. Some kind of meds - and like Quincy, I'm a fan of treating from the bottom end - ought to
calm the inflammation.

I poop first thing everyday when I wake up and not just once (even though I'm doing much better with not going 30+ times a day) I'm still flaring, and I don't usually eat my first meal of the day until supper time, yet I go on average 5 times a day before eating (sometimes less, sometimes more) and after I eat OR even during eating I sometimes have to go, so it really doesn't have as much to do with eating stimulating the bowels cuz like I said in my first line, I go more than enough times from the time I wake up before I even eat anything.

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It depends Q, when we went away for baseball weekend trips this summer, I'd be up at 7am to get "ready" to go and wouldn't have my first meal until maybe as late as 6pm that same day, sometimes (depending on scheduled games, even later like 8pmish).

My regular at home routine during school (I have a 16 yr old son in high school), I get up at 7:15am, get him breakfast (I don't eat), then go back to bed until about 10am (in the winter/cold/wet/windy days, I drive my son to school which is basically a 10 minute (there and back total) drive depending on traffic at about 8:15am, get home and go back to bed til about 10am and I don't eat when I get up for the day until usually around supper time at 5pm.

I was never a breakfast eater really and getting sick this this DD turned me into a lunch skipper too...but I eat a healthy supper and eat healthy snacks (but not alot of food cuz I eat healthy with fruits and veggies, it doesn't take much to fill me up).

I still have great energy and there is the odd time mid afternoon before supper that I'll have a yogurt smoothy, but in general I don't even feel hungry til supper (during my normal at home routines) those baseball weekend trips were a little rough at times cuz obviously the longer you're awake, the sooner you get hungry.


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I am another person who can go all day without eating. I don't like to do it but some days I am not hungry at all and it doesn't bother me. No matter how hungry I am, I know I can wait another few hours and I'll be fine. I have friends who have to eat on a schedule or they are miserable to be around. When I was flaring I would literally not eat until I got home from work. That would be anywhere between the hours of 4 and 6pm. I had no choice really, I couldn't get much work done if I was in the bathroom all day. I still had to use the toilet a few times even without eating anything. People would always try to push snacks on me but I knew I couldn't have any or I would spend the rest of the day on the toilet. Nice way to live huh?