Prolapsed bowel?

I'm just back from my 6 monthly check up with my GI. My wife came with me today, this was first time she's came along to an appointment. I felt it was a good idea for her to understand more about uc. My doctor told us that he believes that i may have a prolapsed bowel. He has ordered a sigmoidoscopy and told me that he intends to do a u- turn when the scope enters to get a better idea what is going on. I do not know anything about a prolapsed bowel to be honest.

    He also said he was contacting my gp to make it very clear that under no circumstances i be given steroids again. He said it is obvious that they ae not working, and the side effects are too great. He believes that pain under ribs may be liver related and not stomach ulcers as my gp thought.

   What happens if i do have a prolapse, does it always mean surgery?n Any help or advice is much appreciated.

                                                                                                     Marty

I'm sorry my friend. It sounds like your GI is taking charge. Good thinking to bring your wife with you; it always helps to have a support with you. Let us know what they find out about the under-rib pain. Take care and hope the sig goes well....let us know the outcome of that too. (((Hugs dear friend)))

I'm pretty familiar with prolapse. It's common in infants with certain neurological abnormalities. It can also be caused by frequent prolonged straining or even by just sitting on the toilet for hours at a time. (Folks, even if you know you'll be back in 10 minutes, get up and give the muscles a chance to go back to normal)

Probably your worst short-term enemy would be constipation. If this is ever a problem for you, be sure you're taking fiber and fluids and probably a stool softener to be sure you don't have to strain.

I hope everything works out well for you. I swear, if it isn't one thing with us, it's another!

yes thats true Quincy. I have had to cancel my last three hospital appointments at the last minute because Beth hadn't been well enough for me to leave her.My gp kept telling me that i really couldn't afford to miss another hospital appointment
. So i can't really blame the GP for giving me steroids, i left them with no option because i kept cancelling hospital appointments to care for Beth. I think i need to learn to start taking care of myself a bit better.