HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Bloody after prednisolone treatment

Support Forums
>
Ulcerative Colitis
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 7/12/2012 5:17 AM (GMT 0)
I just completed a 6-wk steroid treatment (prednisolone and NOT prednisone, or are they the same thing? I once heard that prednisolone is equivalent to the US cortifoam? Not sure how true that is....). I started out with 30 mg daily and everything went smoothly (my doctor gradually tapered from there). I only had BMs once a day and no blood and only hard stools. I also ate anything I wanted to eat, which was perhaps the dumbest thing I've done.

So, my question is....since I got off the steroids, I bleed every time I have a BM and it's pretty bad....but I didn't bother calling my doctor (last I've seen him was 2 weeks ago and I'll be seeing him tomorrow). The strange thing is, I don't have diarrhea (but am gassy only when I have a BM) and have very hard stools which are almost hard to get out, and I don't feel weak or tired from all the blood loss. However, I did end up with a fissure (?). Is it possible to have so much blood come out even though you're having hard stools? It can't be from the fissure, can it? Is this considered a flare? I only have BMs about 4 times a day.

I'm also wondering how often do you contact or call your doctors for your UC? How often are your appointments? I know it would depend all on how bad your symptoms actually are, but I'm just wondering. Also, I tend to talk a lot to my doctor giving him my update on my status and sometimes my explanations tend to get very detailed about being gassy and all the poop stories....etc....the list goes on, but I'm wondering how you guys are with your doctors.....I apologize for asking really ridiculous questions, but I'm just curious.   

Posted 7/12/2012 12:14 PM (GMT 0)
If your still bleeding then your doctor should be called. They are used to heavy duty explanations in fact the more they know the better they can treat you. :)
Posted 7/12/2012 4:49 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, you can flare withut diarhhea. You can even have constipation with a flare. Blood and 4 BM's a day could be a flare so you should have it checked out. Blood is never normal.

Anytime symptoms are coming back, changing or getting worse my doctor wants me to contact him. He also wants me to give him all the details. All good doctors rely heavily on what the patients tell them in making a treatment plan so it is up to the patient to tell the doctor everything that is happening.
Posted 7/14/2012 4:27 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you, sherbear and thatfiled. Appreciate your feedback :)

I had an appt. with my GI yesterday afternnon and had my blood test done in the morning. He let me know the results and he tells me that there's hardly any inflammation and that I'm doing very well. It only shows that I'm lacking iron, but he said it's not bad at all. Is that possible? I mean, I have no urgency, no diarrhea, mostly formed stools, but have so much blood come out each time I have a BM (4 times a day or so?).

I'm wondering whether I should just go and see a doctor who specializes in hemmies.

I had a 3 pm appt but wasn't seen until 5 pm...? The longest I've ever waited is an hour and I understand that. I also have blood work done for each appt. but the results are in within the hour. My GI doc normally sees patients from 1:30 to 4:30 pm and there are 3 other gastro docs on the same floor so there were others in the same waiting area but they all left and I was just alone come 4:45 pm....so there I was freaking out and getting all sweaty just assuming that my doc decided to see me last because my blood test results were so bad that he needed to have a talk with me but instead, when I was called in he tells me that my results are very good. I think I get along with my doc pretty well and I've always appreciated him, but yesterday's appt. got me wondering....
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply