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Posted 3/16/2023 2:22 PM (GMT 0)
Amazing how excited I can get about the best poop I've had in months. I wanted to tell my husband! No. Write to my bf (who keeps asking me "Are you better yet?" Sigh.) ? No. Post on my family message board "I just had a big solid poop!!" ? Guess not.

That leaves my friends here. I know you will understand!

I am trying not to get too excited. Tomorrow I could be back to bloody mush. But for the last month I've been having the gradual switch over from "bad day-bad day-bad day" to "good day-bad day" that marks (in my experience) healing from a flare. I've occasionally had ribbon-like solid stool, and then chunks of narrow stool....

And today for the first time I just had a good size almost normal stool! No abdominal cramping preceding it. The only blood was on the toilet paper, nothing in the toilet, nothing on the stool.

I feel like I won the lottery.
Posted 3/16/2023 3:28 PM (GMT 0)
Brava!!!!! Yes, our forum is definitely where people appreciate the magic of solid poop. May you have steady improvement to remission soon. / Old Hat (40+ yrs with left-sided UC; in remission taking Colazal)
Posted 3/16/2023 4:16 PM (GMT 0)
Woooo! Congrats serenity, that’s amazing and we’re definitely here for it.
Posted 3/16/2023 5:16 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah...like the perfect accomplishment! 😆

q
Posted 3/16/2023 5:58 PM (GMT 0)
WooHoo! Yes I understand the joy. And like you would never share with family or friends — except my friends here who I know understand!

🤞🤞🤞 Hoping you soon have a good day - good day — bad day —good - good - good!
Posted 3/16/2023 6:25 PM (GMT 0)
I'm so happy for you!!!! I so understand what you're feeling. I'm still in the "it's all just mush" phase. The day I have a solid BM again I will be so happy.
Posted 3/16/2023 10:02 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for celebrating with me!

And yes, Quincy, it feels like an accomplishment! I need a trophy or something! LMAO
Posted 3/16/2023 10:22 PM (GMT 0)
Those are the best days! Congratulations and hope the trend continues.
Posted 3/17/2023 2:37 AM (GMT 0)
🥈🏆
q
Posted 3/17/2023 3:28 AM (GMT 0)
SN,

Yeah!!!!! 🥳🥳 Celebrate!!!!!!

Absolutely thrilled for you!

May your "stellar performance" continue!

And yes this is the place to come to celebrate your victories.

Clo

P. S. I squirted hot apple cider out my nose when I read your post.... So so funny!!! And so very true! Thank you!
Posted 3/17/2023 3:40 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks Mom & Clo - bwhaahhaa, sorry about the hot apple cider!

Q --- my trophy, my trophy, there it is!! And a medal! Wow, LOL!! Good thing I wasn't drinking cider.

Okay, tomorrow had better not be back to mush after all of this...
Posted 3/17/2023 10:37 AM (GMT 0)
hahaha ... we can all relate. One time I told my doc that the day before I had a perfect poop and I felt like taking a pic of it. He looked at me like I was so bizarre that I hastened to add that I didn't. I think he was afraid I was going to whip out my phone to show him lol.

Hope that was the start of many more, Serenity.
Posted 3/17/2023 1:04 PM (GMT 0)
Hahahaha! Love that story, CC.

Well, this morning I am indeed back to mush... pride goeth before a fall. sad
Posted 3/17/2023 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
Did you happen to eat anything different the day or two before your trophy poop?
Hoping another will be presented soon. Of course, not every day is perfection...you'll run out of room to put your trophies 🙄

q
Posted 3/17/2023 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
Haha! Now I'm picturing a mantle filled with trophies and having to explain to someone what they are all for...

(And no, I didn't eat anything different. I don't know why the output is different. Sigh).
Posted 3/18/2023 2:38 AM (GMT 0)
Ah, I was hopeful 😕
q
Posted 3/18/2023 2:50 AM (GMT 0)
That's great to hear! Did your doctor ever get back to you with any recommendations for a treatment plan or did you end up changing any meds?
Posted 3/18/2023 2:25 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Sara, I am not expecting my GI to get back to me. What I need to do is see what her report from the colonoscopy said. I am hopeful it will provide me with some clues. Who knows! I have to get the report from my family doctor (which is b.s. of a whole other variety, but don't get me started). My appt with her is not until the end of this month.
Posted 3/18/2023 4:05 PM (GMT 0)
Oh ok. Good luck!
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