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Posted 3/8/2013 3:52 PM (GMT 0)
So a few weeks ago I thought I saw some blood and it all just went away on it's own.  Now about a month later I am seeing what looks like a pale pink dot or two on the surface of the stool.  Is this inflammation?  I am not on any traditional maintenace meds.  Can't take mesalamine, got off Prednisone after about a year this December.  6mp raised my liver enzymes too high.  GI wants me to sit tight and see.  Integrative MD would rather me not on harder drugs unless things get worse.  I am taking LDN and have been for over a year.  I do a lot of alternative supplements too. 

BTW no B on the TP either.  I can't tell if this is food  or light colored blood marks.  They are more like dots than streaks.  So nervous becaue I don't have a ton to turn to.  Am trying to put of Remi as long as I can.  Still contemplaing one more child.  I was very good while pregnant with my first 2 kids.

Posted 3/8/2013 4:10 PM (GMT 0)
Could be inflammation who knows without having your GI scope it. Sometimes traces of blood can appear if you strain a lot while pooping. Do you have any history of hemorrhoids?
Posted 3/8/2013 4:15 PM (GMT 0)
I have a GI appointment soon I think. I'm sure it's time for a scope soon. Uggg. I'm sure am not inflammation free. Yes I do have internal hemorrhoids. And as I said it looks like a dot of pale pink and it's only when I look hard. I just wish I could take some of the lesser maintenace drugs. Oh well.

I have contemplated using cort enemas or suppositories but I just got off steroids... Sigh
Posted 3/8/2013 5:01 PM (GMT 0)
What is the extent of the inflammation you have had in the past? If the inflammation is limited to the rectum then suppositories or cort enemas would certainly reach it, if that's indeed what it is. You said you have hemis so it could also be the cause.
Posted 3/8/2013 5:08 PM (GMT 0)
I've had pancolitis at diagnosis in 1999, since then mostly in the rectum. All scopes seem to show somethign different.

I'm curious if anyone else sees a similar thing in their stool?
Posted 3/8/2013 7:03 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Seasons,

I have in the past. Very pale pink dots and such just in the stool. Sometimes within mucus as well if its present. For me I went into full remission with remicade and diet - but had to stop the rem eventually. Over time things got progressively worse. I started to see the odd pale pink dot here and there etc. A little bit of mucus, but not always.

Upon colonoscopy a while later the doc was showing me pics and he pointed out all these little red dots along the surface of my entire colon. Very, very small ulcers.

I didn't ask him, but I'm guessing these very tiny ulcers where the source of the pink dots i.e blood in the stool. Soon after (a few months or more) more inflammation kicked in and well eventually a full on flare.

Even though I felt better and was in remission for some time after stopping remicade - or at least what I thought was remission - and felt good on diet and probiotics alone, I guess the docs concerns were right; that things would ultimately progress undetected or "unnoticed" for some time before hitting hard again. He wanted me to pick a mantenance med that I felt comfortable with - but I didn't listen and said I wanted to try diet and Probiotics... I hate meds... still do... but have learned my lesson.

Anyway - lesson learned... tiny pink dots = not so good situation

Hopefully your's go away though :) You never know. Just to be on the positive side and all... It's hard to suggest or say anything is the exact cause everyone is so different. What was tiny ulcers for me may be something totally different for you.
Posted 3/8/2013 7:03 PM (GMT 0)
 I do,pink mucus sometimes,and blood tinged mucus as well, recent colonoscopy showed a normal healthy looking colon and biopsies came back clean. GI said I had internal hemmies,that where it must be coming from.Occasional  Salofalk supps. are my only meds, extremely intolerant to enemas and orals.

Following scd for 2 years now.

Posted 3/8/2013 7:14 PM (GMT 0)
food for sure can look pink or reddish, but if you cannot connect it to food, then it's probably blood.

Blood from internal hemmies can be a possibility.

Best to get in for a scope.

Can you take any rectal meds...even those meant for hemmies such as anusol hcl.

ARe you taking probiotics and fibre supplements as well?

Good you're keeping an eye on it.

q
Posted 3/9/2013 1:29 AM (GMT 0)
I think my GI appt is next week. I'll see what he says. I will probably get a scope before my deductable starts over in November. He did a flex sid on me in the past year. It was bad then though. Lots more symptoms. I really hope it's not the start of a flare.
Posted 3/9/2013 7:37 AM (GMT 0)
If it is bleeding from inflammation, you're already flaring.

What other symptoms are you having?

q
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