Urgencies

What do you find best to control urgencys, any food you start your mornings off with to get through the day with less movements and less urgencies? What are some good things to consume that create better control in the intestines if any?!

Urgency is related to both inflammation(UC) and food/drink intolerance (IBS) so you have to think of different ways to lower urgency in my opinion.

as hekela suggested the mesalamine enemas really help with lower inflammation, worked well for me.

I also eliminated gluten, dairy and quite a few other foods that my gut was unhappy with. This is not a quick process but if you haven't gotten remission with Rx meds it may be your only choice except going onto stronger drugs or having surgery. (I also eliminated obvious stimulants like coffee in the beginning but was able to add them back in later).

Good that you are using a probiotic. I use VSL#3.

I see you are still in a flare while taking prednisone so your UC may be drug resistant like some of us.
You really should be using the enema nightly if you haven't gotten better after month on pred.
Hope you see some relief soon.

If I have to take a trip on a particular morning (vacation, work) here is what I do.

The evening before I will eat very light and "safe." Probably just some scrambled eggs and toast (without any nuts or seeds). The next morning I would drink some strong coffee to "get everything out." Coffee has a tendency to do that. And then I would skip breakfast altogether. I'd take 2 immodium, 2 gasX, and maybe some Tylenol depending on how I felt.

Anyway that is what I do for emergency situations and it always works. On a day to day basis what I do - and you may not believe this - is when the urge first hits me in the morning I try to hold it as long as I can. One minute...2 minutes...5 minutes... What this does is help strengthen the kegel muscles, so each time that area gets a little stronger. Having had this colitis for so long those muscles can get really weak, making the urgency thing worse. Kegel excercises are out there but really boring to do.

People may disagree with me on the coffee, but I found it to help me "empty out" if you will...so then I don't have to worry about the rest of the day.

Good luck
John

Definitely get in to see your GI now that you're off the 5ASA meds.

As well, you're still on prednisone, and you should have had some improvement.

You also need to have stool samples checked for sure!

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Yeah I see my GI on the first of march, in the meantime I'm just told to remain on the 60mg of prednisone.. Synptoms are better, but still dealing with urgencies in the AM and blood here and there.. From 3pm till midnightish I seem to be fine.. It's about once while I'm asleep, and then about 5 times once im up and at it that I have my BMs.. Better former stools but still the uncontrolable urge