Feeling discouraged :(

I have been on the Cortenema for about 3 weeks now. I can say that my symptoms have significantly improved (no more colon spasms, much less urgency, spending several hours apart from my trips to the bathroom, etc.) It used to be i had to use the bathroom an hour after I ate something. so in that regard I've come a long way! If I look at week to week, I'm definitely improving.

However about a week ago I started getting a little bit of cloudy diarrhea, sometimes right before I had a real BM. It isn't enough to alarm me, and sometimes I wonder if it's actually my Cortenema passing during the day (I take it right before bed and I find that when I try to expel it in the morning, I don't feel it come up, but then again I usually have my worse bleeding symptoms in the morning).

Mostly I'm just so discouraged that I am STILL seeing blood. I probably see it about twice/thrice a day. It's really hard to try to convince yourself that things are improving and that you're getting better when you see blood. It makes you feel like no progress has been made. Is it normal to take this long to get bleeding under control?

Thank you so much for your encouragement. I'm relatively new to all of this stuff so I don't have the experience and wisdom, and I appreciate it.

Sometimes it's just on the toilet paper, sometimes its small bloody pieces, and sometimes the water in the bowl changes color to a pink. And then sometimes there's none at all! Those are the best times lol

But I'm definintely doing MUCH better when it comes to the urgency factor. And yesterday I had some normal looking stool which was exciting (though there was a little bit of blood on the end of one).

It's such an emotional rollercoaster. You have one great BM that looks normal and healthy and you get so excited that maybe you're healing, and then six hours later you see red again!

I will definintely keep using my meds and hopefully maybe this time next week I'll be feeling better

Uc bms are anything but consistent when healing. We've all been on the emotional rollercoaster that a good bm followed by a bad bm give. Set your sights further, look for week-to-week improvement; not day-to-day.