White mucus.. Concern or not?

I've been on a combo of MTX and remicade since December of last year (remicade since may of 2014) and have felt pretty good. I have no urgency, frequency or blood. I probably go 5-6 times per week and sometimes I feel so normal I don't even look at my poops! However, I still sometimes see white mucus on the stool. It is never by itself, it's always on the stool itself. I am still struggling with what is considered IBD normal versus "normal" normal! So many people that I know with IBD say that you just have to get used to a new normal but I'm struggling with what that is. I know it's different for everyone but I just never know when to be concerned or not. I feel decent otherwise just have some bouts of white mucus on the stool and some left sided dull
Pain every now and then. I tend to notice pain more after I go poo, but sometimes I don't feel it at all.. It's just so confusing. I also have endometriosis on the lower left side as well, so never know where the pain is actually coming from. Just want to know thoughts on if seeing white mucus is a big deal or not especially if you are mostly fine otherwise... Just curious. My doctors have always told me white mucus is normal for IBDers but I have a hard time believing that when I never saw white mucus before I was sick.. Thanks for your time!

White mucus for me is always the very first sign of a flare. I usually see blood about a week to two weeks later. When I say white I mean white. If I have really firm stool or if I've been out of town and my body 'held it in' I may have a lot of clearish-yellowish mucus even when I'm doing OK. That's been my experience with mucus.

Whether seeing mucus on your stool is an issue, all depends on its frequency. Normally, mucus coats the wall of your large intestine and you'd never see any visible quantity of it in your stool. When you see mucus in stool, it means the intestinal wall is irritated/inflamed which causes mucus to be shed.

I see mucus maybe once a month, I am in remission with 1 bm a day, and I don't worry (maybe extra stress or a reaction to something I ate). Start seeing it frequently and then it's a red flag that something is amiss, and as others have said, you might be beginning a uc flare. In that case, nip-it-in-the-bud, take evasive action, increase enema/suppository frequency, take a full 4.8 grams a day of oral meslamine (asacol, lialda, apriso, etc.).

I have mucus and usually it's not a sign of a flare or anything for me. I don't worry about it. Typically when I do have it it's not like a lot. I feel like it comes more often if I'm pushing to get the poop out. If that's the only "symptom" you're experiencing I wouldn't worry about it, especially if it's not frequent.

I've consistently seen mucous for the past 2.5 years flare or "no flare" so frigg mucous has become my new normal - again, like this feed, different doctors say different things, everyone has their own opinion, if you feel good with everything else I feel your fine? But this is coming from a consistent mucous sufferer lol i know this likely wont help but thats my 2 cents