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Posted 5/3/2015 2:21 PM (GMT 0)
Hi all!

It is bizarre how much we can learn to live with and what we start thinking is "normal." For awhile now (ever since my last flare), I have had pretty urgent, but FAST movements. I'm talking 30 seconds or less and done. Does anyone else have this? Is this normal or a sign that I likely still have some inflammation?

Possibly important: a few weeks ago I was having blood again, but that seems to have stopped.
Posted 5/3/2015 2:33 PM (GMT 0)
That's not uncommon and probably means you have some inflammation. How long have you been off the pred? Are you still taking 4 Lialda? Are you taking any Canasa? My guess is that your mtnc program is not good enough to keep you in remission and that you are getting worse.
Posted 5/3/2015 2:38 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Gary! Thanks for the reply! I actually need to update my signature. Yes, I am still on 4 Lialda per day and have been back on Canasa since February. I was on 2 a day for awhile and now am 1 a day. I also tried Cortifoam for about 2 weeks in February which did not work at all.

I have been off of pred since last August.
Posted 5/3/2015 3:31 PM (GMT 0)
I've always been a quick pooper, even before getting sick, meaning that when I had my wonderful, controlled, once a day BM I was always able to pass them quickly, I always thought it was weird that people would take a book or magazine into the bathroom with them and be in there for soooooooooo long to take a poop, and the expression "crap or get off the pot" always ran through my mind lol.

It is normal for a healthy person to be quick on the toilet with a normal BM, there's lots of people that are the same way I used to be when I was healthy. Maybe everyone's senses to poop vary, I never sensed my BM's until they were right there and ready to come out, some people feel their senses to poop higher in their GI tract and maybe those are the ones that take a longer time to go.

Ahhh, I sure miss those healthy bowel movement days, felt the urge in the rectum, could hold it back if there wasn't a toilet around, would fee the urge again, go to the can and with very little effort had a wonderful and typical BM nice and easy then done for the rest of the day never giving it another thought....IBD and IBS are sickening conditions for people to suffer with.
Posted 5/3/2015 4:06 PM (GMT 0)
Yeas, fast here too. Dd mentioned how fast I go the other day. I told her it's good cause we only have in bathroom right now
Posted 5/3/2015 7:54 PM (GMT 0)
I guess I'm just feeling like I'm on way too much medicine to still be having occasional bleeding and urgency.
Posted 5/3/2015 9:49 PM (GMT 0)
I go quickly too most of the time. There will be times when I seem to be a bit "backed up" and I will take longer because there is more of a quantity of stool.
Posted 5/3/2015 10:28 PM (GMT 0)
The urgency isn't super normal, but the fast bms are. Everyone sees the person walking to the bathroom with the newspaper or a crossword puzzle and not come out for like a half hour and thinks that's normal. It's not. A good bm is quick and painless. Literally. Very little pushing should be required, it should just come out on its own (when you're sitting at the toilet) and it shouldn't take very long. The bigger question is if these fast movements are solid or diarrhea.
Posted 5/3/2015 10:50 PM (GMT 0)

mcfarl73 said...
The urgency isn't super normal, but the fast bms are. Everyone sees the person walking to the bathroom with the newspaper or a crossword puzzle and not come out for like a half hour and thinks that's normal. It's not. A good bm is quick and painless. Literally. Very little pushing should be required, it should just come out on its own (when you're sitting at the toilet) and it shouldn't take very long. The bigger question is if these fast movements are solid or diarrhea.

YUP!!! I knew it!!!! I was so normal before getting sick!!!! UGH I sure miss it :(

It was so easy going to the bathroom, no pain no major time trying to go, just sit and sh!t and be done, and really hardly if anything to wipe off (little to often no residue on TP) because they were just the right consistency not too soft or hard.
Posted 5/3/2015 11:41 PM (GMT 0)
Lol pb4. When I'm in remission I have those glorious bms sometimes and it's so satisfying. Albeit a gross satisfying that only we understand. It's like that feeling you get when peeling a sunburn and it comes off so nicely. Wait that's just me? Lol. :P
Posted 5/3/2015 11:43 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for all of the replies. Glad to know that the speed thing isn't much to be concerned about. I am worried that the urgency is a sign of a flare though. Plus, I was having blood and mucus as of 2 weeks ago. Seems to have calmed now, but something seems to be up. I feel like I shouldn't be coming this close to an issue all the time.
Posted 5/4/2015 12:58 AM (GMT 0)

mcfarl73 said...
Lol pb4. When I'm in remission I have those glorious bms sometimes and it's so satisfying. Albeit a gross satisfying that only we understand. It's like that feeling you get when peeling a sunburn and it comes off so nicely. Wait that's just me? Lol. :P

LOL, me too with the peeling skin hahahaha, too funny mcfarl73!!

Worriedgirl,

Urgency is a sign of a flare and so it the 2 weeks ago of blood and mucous...urgency is different from quick poops...so you're right, something is up, sounds like you're in somewhat of a flare with the mucous, blood and urgency.
Posted 5/4/2015 3:05 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks! I'm actually going to see a new doctor tomorrow (Dr. Rubin in Chicago) because mine retired. I'll be interested to hear his thoughts and to see if I need a med switch.
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