symptoms/scope this week

Hi all -
I'd been doing quite well (see siggy.)
This past week, I've had several things going on: tremendous family stress (older son for a change...), and I caught a cold (which often sends me into flare), and with all else going on I forgot to take my probiotics as much as I'd been doing.....And some crazy things at work.
So yesterday morning I saw blood on the TP, then late afternoon, another BM, bloody, with significant blood/mucus on the TP. No increase in frequency or urgency, pretty well-formed.

So, dang, I did my friend Charlie (the cortenema) last night. Today, one stool (as of late afternoon) and no blood. I guess I'll go back to daily cortenemas.... but also, I'm scheduled for my annual scoping on Wednesday. Rats, because when I saw the GI a month+ ago and we scheduled this, I was doing SO well.....!
So I guess I'll call him Monday.
I'm also wondering about the decrease from my 16 Asacol a day (for 8 years) as I've tried to decrease 12.... maybe I do need that 16? Maybe I need 16 because I'm not getting full benefit from them (sometimes several whole-looking ones going through.....)
Maybe I should ask to try Colazal?
I try to do Rowasa twice a week, but on the whole, it doesn't really help me - I've gone into a flare while doing it twice a day. But... I've read the literature, it OUGHT to help, so I'm using it some.

Just sharing a frustrating experience........

I hope your scope goes well. Which prep are you doing?

Thanks, friends!
No blood since Friday afternoon (it's now Sunday evening).
2 stools yesterday, one so far today, fairly well formed even though I'm without Metamucil for these 5 pre-scope days. (Traditional powder, 2 heaping tablespoons per day.)
I'm taking LOTS of probiotics - !!

Quincy, I've read the literature, I promote Rowasa - but frankly, it's never gotten me out of a flare. I've felt inflammation coming on and have done Rowasa even twice a day for a month or more and have steadily gone downhill in blood, frequency, urgency. So... I'd figured years ago they didn't help me, and I've been giving them a good try since being at HW, but they really don't seem to do much for me. I'll do them twice weekly re the long term benefits, as long as they don't actually hurt. I do hope to be proven wrong at some point! lol

I had lowered the asacol very slowly and raised it back slowly.... I've been doing 15 pills a day for three weeks and today I did my old 16.

Red - I get to do the Miralax, yay! - though my doc isn't using it too much anymore since (he said) someone got dehydrated and sued their doctor. I promised to drink till I float.

Ima/Q- interesting re the Balsalazide. Maybe I'll stay the course. I went from UP to pancolitis on sulfasalazine and have been on asacol about 17 years (pancolitis 1991.)

I'd thought of calling my GI because... my old GI would have wanted to know if I was doing differently than I had been at the pre-scope office visit, that's all. But..... it's like Friday was a blip and all is fine again.
Sigh, thanks to Cortenemas.
Ima - I just started some yogurt with VSL for the first time. I am very, very intrigued! Hope it works. I love the homemade, 24-hour brewed yogurt.....
Gosh, what a great thing this forum is, all you folks are.......!