Thank you everyone for your replies!! I had the sigmoidoscopy today. I woke up at 6am to do the first of three enemas. When I tried to get the tip of the first enema in, I nearly screamed. I had a...
Thank you for all of your helpful answers!!! I'm going to start my 3 enemas tomorrow morning at 6am. My mom is coming to my apartment at 8:45am to pick me up. I KNOW I will be in tremendous pain...
Thank you all for your answers!!! I think I am going to start the first one at 6am tomorrow morning to hopefully be finished with the third one and all its glory by the time I leave at 8:45am. My...
I am having a sigmoidoscopy on Monday morning. I have never had a sigmoidoscopy. I have had roughly 20 colonoscopies, but never a sigmoidoscopy. The doctor's office said the only prep was 3 enemas an...
Thanks for all of your responses!! Unfortunately, I HAVE to have this sigmoidoscopy on Monday. I have a very high deductible, $2500, that will start over again January 1st. Due to all of my medical...
What is a 'sitz' bath? Also, is the other ointment you mentioned available over the counter? I'm 33. I have had 20+ colonoscopies over the years. These days, what I experience daily, is what I would...
So, my anus hurts dreadfully each time I use the restroom. I know I have inner and outer hemmoroids. Each time I use the restroom, I can also feel old/new cuts splitting and bleeding. While I bleed a...
I have a trip (by myself) in late July, from Los Angeles to Seattle for a wedding. I am completely terrified of flying!! I have already started to stress myself out about it. Ironically, my mom is a...
When I was about 15, I decided to take one of my father's daily vitamin pills...it looked like a horse pill, but as I had no problems before swallowing pills, I decided to take it. It felt like it...
Yes, I am a redhead. I've seen the studies that suggest that the genetic mutation that causes redhair might also be responsible for me not responding to anethesia or pain medications. I have asked...
This morning I had my 12th colonoscopy and second upper endoscopy. I told the nurses in the beginning that I needed the largest dose of sedative as possible because I tend to wake up. She looked back...
Unfortunately, I have had these same symptoms all along, as I have had all of these tests. The colonoscopies I have had don't support this pain. 8 weeks ago, my GI put me on 40 mg of prednisone,...
Any more takers before I calculate the results? The more the merrier in trying to figure why we suffer from this horrible disease!...
I'm in a flare right now. I have horrible left sided stomach pain and pain in the center of my stomach, below my ribs and about 4 inches above my belly button. According to my last colonoscopy (last...
I have been on Lialda for a year and a half. At first, I thought it got me out of my 'at that time' worst flare of my life. But it really just relieved me of the extreme urgency, cramping and...
I am waiting for a few more responses before I recalculate the numbers. I am already seeing a couple of trends....
1. Did you already post your answers in the previous post? (If Yes, I can compare your new answers to your old post....if no, please answer these questions and the ones at the bottom of the new...
Being a former teacher and now working in accounting, I couldn't help but crunch the numbers regarding those who gave their answers in my first post, "They Can't Figure Us Out." 1. Number of people...
I am blood type A+. Still in the dark as to why I have UC....
So, for the scientists studying UC, they can't figure out the commonaltity that explains why people get UC. Let's see if we can find something we all have in common. Please post and answer each...
Thank you all for your replies! I went through each response and jotted down notes to take to my doctor. The things you all mentioned, he definitely has not. Thank you!...
I am currently flaring. I take 4 pills of Lialda a day and 1 Canasa suppository nightly. My doctor put me on a two month regime of prednisone starting at 40 mg and tapering down 5 mg a week. I have...
I remember reading somewhere (perhaps here, perhaps somewhere else) that someone suffering from UC keeps a child's potty in her trunk in case she's somewhere and she knows she won't make it to a...
So, today I think one of my hemorrhoids sprung a leak...so to speak ;) I had a large amount of blood everytime I went to the restroom, both with urine and BM's, and many blood clots fell in the...
I'm on my third week of prednisone and I only noticed the hot/sweating issue within the past week. I was at lunch last week with my girlfriends, and even though I could feel the air conditioner on...
Sometimes (somewhat more frequently now) when my stomach hurts, I also feel a very sharp pain in the upper part of the center my left thigh. I know they are connected because it feels like the pain...
Thank you so much for your detailed reply!! I will definitely bring your advice the next time I see my doctor....
A normal BM??? I should be so lucky!!! Definitely always checking mine...mostly counting how many Lialda pills are coming out whole or the amount of blood and mucous. Did I just write that out loud?...
I am so tired of all of this stomach pain!!! /community/emoticons/shakehead.gif I am currently flaring (as I have been for the past two plus months). Before my flare, I was and am still taking 4...
I am tired all of the time. I am flaring right now, but I was still exhausted before. My last flare was last summer. I started flaring about two months ago. It's not so much that I need to sleep...
I was very active on this board last summer when I had a huge flare. Taking 4 pills of Lialda got it under control. However, I don't think that I was ever fully in remission, as I still had blood and...
Although I am single and only cook for myself, my eating habits have definitely changed over this year as I finally realized (or perhaps got tired of the pain) that dairy will no longer be a part of...
So, my alarm didn't go off this morning and I awoke 30 minutes before my appt. I was supposed to drink a liter of the barium suspension 45 minutes before my appointment. I freaked and chugged the...
I can't eat it anymore. It rushes straight through me. I use to have it every morning. I only made it with water....
You all are right! I thought I was completely empty before trying Canasa the night before, but I guess I wasn't. I did it again last night and it stayed in me for about 4 hours before I had D....
My doctor just prescribed Canasa. I took it last night and followed the directions, clearing my bowels. I inserted it and lay on my bed for about 6 minutes. Then I had to high tail it to the bathroom...
Good luck with your colonoscopy! I hope they find what's causing you so much pain!...
Now, I am sure this is a stupid question, but I have to drink a liter of some kind of liquid before I go to my first MRI for my intestine in the morning. It has to be done 45 minutes before my...
I have two MRI's scheduled for tomorrow. My first is of my intestine to see if I suffer from crohn's (as well as UC). The second is for my lower spine to see if I have herniated discs again (had back...
I had psoriasis 11 years ago. It was only on the palms of my hands and soles of my feet. I had all the symptoms you described. I remember my hands and feet would get so painfully itchy that I all I...
At work, only 4 other people know my exact situation, but not because I am selective with information (as those 3 lucky people who work in my same office space know :) ) just because no one has ever...
My advice is the same as MmeMulot's...toothpaste. My grandmother, her son (my dad) and I have suffered from canker sores as long as we could remember. My dad started using Rembrandt C...Specially...
I currently suffer from ulcerative colitis, but my GI wants me to have an MRI on my intestine to see if I have Crohn's as well. I have had UC for 13 years (I am 32) and the pain I am experiencing,...
Hi Zen Mom! First off, please go and get a colonoscopy. There's no need for you or any other doctors to try and guess what you have since you haven't had one. I, personally, love when I need to get a...
Wow! I am actually surprised that not all of us experience pain with UC. I thought that was a commanlity we all shared. I have incredible pain associated with my UC...plus all of the other...
I got the swine flu shot last year when it was in high demand, because having UC fell under the category of people recommended to receive it. I haven't had the flu in at least 20 years, but I didn't...
I was talking on the phone to my dad tonight. I mentioned that my UC pain was minimal today, but that my sciatica was really hurting. He asked me how long it had been since I have felt no pain in my...
Mucous is still my nemesis! After having the worst flare of my life that consisted of an abundance of blood, mucous and urgency, I am finally finding relief from Lialda. At my worst, I needed to use...
Thanks beeswax! For those of us with IBD, colonoscopies are regular part of our lives. Even with this bad experience, I will definitely not be intimated from having another colonoscopy. However, I...