Thanks for all the great replies! Funny...I used to always hold it in when I was growing up...I wonder if this is a factor in my developing a IBD? Believe me, it is not easy holding it in. I feel...
This latest flare has really thrown me for a curveball and from what I've read, it appears like I am just going into the same type of flare that so many of you have dealt with for years . I am not a...
Quincy...just when I thought I heard all the "poop terminology", you stumped me! "just remember to hot fart in the middle of the night or when you get up before you make it to the toilet...." Am I...
Thanks for all the replies to my post. Kind of as I expected, I don't have it near as bad as so many of you folks. But it just gets frustrating when we are introduced to a wonderful new symptom of...
My solution to avoid wearing the "lightdays" for at least a little while... /community/emoticons/idea.gif I'm using the suppository at bedtime and my Cortifoam in the morning, I don't have leaking...
Like I need something else to mess up my sleep! Anybody have issues with getting up in the middle of the night for BMs? This is new for me in the last couple of weeks and I guess this flare in...
Sheesh...one little tidbit of info. I sent my wife an e-mail telling her to protect her supplies and buy extra next time she goes...sure she'll have a chuckle too!...
How will it work with my thong!! Just kidding :) I guess I'll have to start raiding my wife's supplies. You guys gave me the answer I did not want to hear...though I kind of figured this was going to...
Hello, So earlier on in my UP experience I was prescribed the Pentasa suppositories and they were pretty clear in saying that they may leak/stain, basically be aware, so I was cautious with these....
My doc tells me that IBS is the reason for my putrid smelling gas and BMs. I don't have fecal body odor (at least that I'm aware of!) I've also got Ulcerative Proctitis, which to me would perhaps be...
I rarely get the "down low" type gurgles. Mine always seems to be coming from my upper intestinal area and is way worse in the evenings. Hope it disappeared in time for your presentation!...
EP I can somewhat relate. I have the sweating going on too, but not my hands or feet. Mine is more the facial sweating, but similar in that I don't know what causes it! In the situations when it...
Hi there, That's a nice first post. Lots of good little tips and thoughts. Cheers!...
Thanks for the information! Certainly gives me something to go on...
Bennie, So sorry to hear of the loss of your husband. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. ZLSJ...
Hello, Just wondering if many of you folks have gone to see a Naturopath and if so what is your take good or bad? My UP is only moderate but I also have some other issues I'd like to get checked out...
My attack seems to have been a one night kick. The night it seemed to hit me so hard I had KFC with our families while on vacation, and throughout the evening I consumed about[b] 6 of the new Bud...
By the charts, I think I'm considered very overweight. I'm a 5'6" male and I weigh about 187 right now. Used to hover around 192-94. Funny thing is I feel skinny. I've been so self conscious of all...
Makes me really happy that I now have to deal with GERD stuff too! The PPI was only a short term thing...only to take with my Antibiotics for the H-Pylori. Will have to try and get in to the GP next...
Hello again, Thanks for the advice/info. As the day goes on, no heartburn, no yucky taste, throat is feeling better. Would that have been an acute attack of GERD? Is that possible? I guess I'll wait...
They say that once you test positive for H Pylori it seems to linger fro subsequent testing...don't know what that's all about . I see him on the 17th of August...can't come quick enough! Had a weird...
Hi there, I am a frequent poster on the Ulcerative Colitis board. Thought I'd come straight to you folks on this one though. I've had a bit more heartburn the last few days, nothing too crazy though....
My gas and BMs are both foul smelling any time of day. Gross actually. Kind of a funny moment the other night. Was lying on the floor watching some tv and passed gas in the "other" direction. I had...
So..the trick with the matches means I've just got to accept that I stink!!! I'd feel with the stench that I may blow the whole bathroom up! lol...
Hello all, I've posted about the gurgling noises coming from within but because I'm so focussed on trying to figure out what is up with me....here I am again. Anybody experience the below happening...
Hi Christine, I'm not Quincy either but my GI had no problem prescribing it for me either, but I did notice it said 0 Refills. I do find it does help me, when I remember to take it. Cheers...
So I guess the best thing to do is to keep eating the way I have, but track everything and when it is worse, then start eliminating?? I should be able to handle that! I just switched docs, I think...
I will give the cortifoam a shot nightly for the next bit. I was down to aonly a bit left while on vacation so was going only every 2nd night. Hoping you're right on the c-scope. I think he'll be ok...
Hello, Meds - 4 x 800mg Asacol Cortifoam - Every 2nd Night Supplements - Ferrous Sulphate Metamucil Capsules Probiotics Digestive Enzymes Olive Leaf Extract Nothing seems to be working. Last visit to...
Aaargh...this gurgling stuff is scaring me. It's not the hunger grumbles. It's actual gurgling noises. It's mostly left side, but almost seems like I can hear it from the front side and back side....
Thanks for the replies! Oh yeah, forgot to mention my stomach/etc making the hungry type noises as well as the "froggy" noises, even though I've ate...all weird to me. Yes, that is what the doc said...
Hello all, Been a while since I posted because I was hoping to give things a bit of a break after the results of the CT of my abdomen came back clear or "unremarkable" is how they put it. Liver,...
Thanks to all for the kind and positive words you've passed on. I'm trying my best to stay in the moment, some days I do well and other days....well I just suck at it. Kitt, I read so many of your...
Hello all, On my never ending quest for answers about what is going on with me, I'm about to find some of the answers next week. (my concern has been cancer of some sort, but mainly thinking about...
Just got off the phone with the Admin lady and the GI has indicated no problem getting back in to see him as required. It was just a "quit calling my nurse" letter....
Guess I'll check in with the Admin lady at his office to confirm whether or not this is an official "divorce" letter or just a "quit calling my nurse looking for assistance" letter. Perhaps as you...
Hello all, Thought I better get on here and clarify how I got to this point with my GI. I was diagnosed with UP via a colonoscopy last May. Pretty good flaring through to December and so I got in for...
Hello all, Anybody got to the point with trying to make a determination of what is going on and in turn pissed off your GI? I can be persistent (always in a nice way, honestly) and I had the ear of...
I've been on antibiotics and Losec (for Helicobacter Pylori) for 4 days and I must say that the noises have simmered down a bit. Certainly haven't disappeared, but not quite as crazy as it was in the...
Hello all, Sorry for "reviving" this old thread. Just hoping that someone may have some other ideas/thoughts as far as the above mentioned "Gross, Smelly, Gas and BMs". It continues as smelly as...
Sorry to hear about your friend. Must be tough on the family as well as you and other friends. Nice to hear she's upbeat about stuff, I think a person can find their way to being positive when...
Hi, Diagnosed just last week started the Amoxicillin, Clarithromycin, and Losec on Saturday. 10 days is what I'm supposed to hit it for. Hoping that the H-Pylori is what has been causing my stomach...
Yes it can be a blood test or biopsy. As I said in the previous post, I would have thought he may have seem something in the endoscopy. 3 times a day for the antibiotics...lots of pills... too many...
This was from the blood tests done a while back. This goes to a different lab I guess. She sure likes to stay away from the Small Intestine stuff! This is in the stomach. I guess the question I'd...
The HP "may explain some of my issues. Funny, she seems to be really concerned about the blood. It's not seeming to bother me much. (go figure) I told her what the results of the colonoscopy were and...
Hi, Just got back... Positive for Helicobacter pylori Positive for Occult Blood in 2 of 3 Stool Samples Wonderful More questions.... ...
I know this is pretty normal for all of us but does anybody have this stuff happening throughout the day? Yesterday was tough because I was running some training at work and I was holding in my BMs...
I try not to shut down and you'd think I'd have learned after 19 years of marriage! Appointment was cancelled but when I said later, I meant later in the morning So I'm in tomorrow a.m.. What to ask?...
Hello all, Was at Walmart purchasing another bottle of the Metamucil Capsules. Noticed the $6.00 difference between the Equate Brand and Metamucil Brand. I went with the Metamucil brand today but was...
Anything by The Boss does it for me. Kitt, was in your parts last week for his show in St Paul. Outstanding as usual....