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Posted 4/11/2015 11:43 PM (GMT 0)
I have not been diagnosed with anything yet, but I am wondering aloud what the pain feels like with UC flare up.. is it different than a crohns flare, and how is it different?
Posted 4/12/2015 12:24 AM (GMT 0)
I've had sharp knife stab like pains in my intestinal area, during bad flares. Had milder pain that lasted longer.
Posted 4/12/2015 3:03 AM (GMT 0)
Passing stool felt like razor blades when I first flared. Now, not so.
Posted 4/12/2015 3:58 AM (GMT 0)
Crohns can be anywhere in your intestines, uc is only your colon. Mine feels like gas pain but a little worse and pulses, pooping is just unrelieving. It isn't tremendously painful but incredibly inconvenient right now (I am a colitis newbie right now though)
Posted 4/12/2015 4:54 AM (GMT 0)
The first flare was really bad because no one knew what was wrong with me for almost a month before I was able to see a specialist.

But every other flare I've had wasn't as bad as the first, however all of them leave me completely unable to get out of bed until its that time to go to the bathroom.

It's been about a year since my last flare and all I can remember is it doesn't really hurt as bad, it's just it keeps coming out every 10-20 minutes, even in low amounts. And because of that I get extremely weak and it's hard to me to sleep on my sides.

I'm honestly not sure if this helped but try taking intensive probiotics. The last time I was starting to flare (about half a year ago) I was getting non-solid bms and I was starting to have to go more urgently, but it went away for some reason without the need for steroids. This was when I started taking the probiotics. I really really hoped it was the probiotics so maybe it will work for you too! I've been in remission since last year.

I take one once every morning.
Posted 4/12/2015 1:55 PM (GMT 0)
Well I don't have Crohn's so I wouldn't know :) But when I flare it basically feels like an alien with razor sharp claws trying to rip itself out of my tush when I go to the bathroom and in between bathroom trips, my guts feel like someone is constantly shoving a knife into my left side.
Posted 4/12/2015 3:37 PM (GMT 0)
Usually with CD pain, it's often on the right side, with colitis (crohn's colitis or ulcerative colitis) the pain is generally on the left side. Symptoms of either IBD are very similar, especially for crohn's colitis (which is what I have, but thankfully in remission at the moment) you really need to be checked out by a doctor with a scope to determine what might actually be going on with you.
Posted 4/14/2015 9:03 AM (GMT 0)
Can't say much about Crohns because I have colitis. But my pain depends on where my inflammation is. And that's how I usually determine how far spread the inflammation is. When I have pancolitis the pain can be so unbearable that I cannot speak anymore. It feels like someone stabbed me with a dull object in my belly. I don't understand how people in the ER sit there and say: "yea well my pain is a 10 right now" but they are still sitting up straight and talk while my pain level 10 is when I cannot speak anymore and just have tears running down my face.
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