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Posted 10/19/2009 2:17 PM (GMT 0)
Hi thanks for all the support here. I started flaring in the end of August around the 26th to be exact. I think i have this flare under control now.. Im having 1 to 2 bowel movements a day. Solid good looking stools. Little to no blood. I have been tapering Canasa in the past two weeks or so, using one every other night. Sometimes ill go a few days , no blood. Then like this morning i did a Canasa last night and then there is a little bit of blood/lite on the tissue. Cant really see any on the stool. I did eat some pasta with red sauce last night and that messes with my UC i noticed, but i did it anyway. .. Is that the last symptom to go away when heading into remission?
Posted 10/19/2009 2:31 PM (GMT 0)
Blood wouldn't be the last symptom to go, it would be the inflammation after the bleeding stops....

Go back to the Canasa nightly.

Your blood on the tissue could be from a fissure, especially if your stools are harder/solid.

You could consider to add a fibre supplement. It will encourage your probiotics to work better.

quincy
Posted 10/19/2009 11:59 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks Quincy. Ya that's what im going to do. it gets frustrating, right when i think the bleeding is subsiding there is a little bit. Ill take that over all other other symptoms i was having though in the beginning. is the rectum the hardest area to treat or most stubborn?
Posted 10/20/2009 9:42 AM (GMT 0)
yep, from what I've experienced and what I've been told by my doc and others, it's the hardest to treat and control for some.


How long have you been on the canasa in total?

How long nightly till you started tapering 2 weeks ago?
Posted 10/20/2009 2:24 PM (GMT 0)
Ive been on it about a month and a half now maybe a little more. Ya started to taper about 2 weeks ago or so. I even used some 500mg in the morning about a month ago, not anymore. I feel so much better but just get these little blips here and there it seems.
Posted 10/20/2009 6:42 PM (GMT 0)
Just be consistent and if there are blips, go back to square one. Bleeding shouldn't be intermittent unless you have inflammation fragile enough to bleed.

Or...you have hemmies or a fissure. That's the possibility with blood on the toilet paper (fissure which I tend to have had as of late).

q
Posted 10/21/2009 1:09 AM (GMT 0)
thanks, ya i have had fissures before. It was before i had UC supposedly. The blood isnt bright red, just a slight red tinge to it. Ill just go back to the Canasa nightly and see what happens.
Posted 10/21/2009 6:29 AM (GMT 0)
Now, that's a great plan!! lol...keep us posted as to how you're doing.
q
Posted 10/22/2009 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
I am so new to this, diagnosed Sept. 15 I can't tell what is hemmorroid bleeding or UC bleeding. I think my "denial" thinks hemmorhoids, of course. I know I have hemmies and fissures, but bowel movements produce nothing (or blood I can't see) and blips of diarrhea produce drops of blood and little bits hanging out around the diarrhea.

I tapered fast -- per doctor --- from 40 to 5. 40-20-10-5...

AT 5, I started having diarrhea -- not bad, really -- what I thought was hemmorrhoid blood probably wasn't

I'So he put me back on 20. today, no blood, this evening, yeah, a little....

Should I give 20 some time, or call the doctor.

Any thoughts
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