Hi quincy! Hope you had a great Christmas! My holiday with the inlaws was fine, but I was a long way from home in the middle of nowhere and I was very glad to get home. :) This is the first weekend...
Hi Quincy! My home remedy for gas is fennel seeds. I like candy-coated fennel seeds, which South Asian Indians eat after a meal. You can get them online. The visit with the inlaws will be five days...
Hi GutZilla/Marcus! Yeah, this thread has sort of turned into a personal conversation. Sorry about that, LOL! But you're most welcome to chime in! Thanks so much for the suggestion of Epsom salts. I...
Hi there! I got back a couple of nights ago. Travel was for work. It was a fun trip but I wish it hadn't been during the holidays. Now I have a ton of stuff to do before going to my inlaws' for...
Glad to hear you guys got some more sun! I think IC flares can give you a fever sometimes. I'm glad your ktity got the treatment she needed either way. I know what you mean about the timing of the...
Wow!! Congratulations on getting some sun! Hope you were able to get outside and enjoy it! I can't go back to the doctor who operated on me before because I had to give him up when he turned out to...
Oh man...sorry to hear you're still having bad weather. Hope you get some sun soon as promised! Yeah, for a while my symptoms were a bit confusing...all made worse by my period. I don't really get...
So sorry to hear that you're flaring! Glad it's only mild. Those spasms are the worst, and I know they can make you even more tired. I was recently having an IC flare and general abdominal...
Hi quincy! Hope all is well with you! It's been a while and I've seen some new doctors, but no progress yet. Earlier this week I tried a new gynecologist in my old gyn's practice, and today I saw a...
Just realized the Bowel Disorders board is on an entirely different site. Gah. Guess I need to go to bed. :)...
Ok, we'll keep it public then! I just figured out that fissure discussions probably belong on the Bowel Disorders board, since they seem to talk a lot about rectal issues over there... Yeah, I can't...
Clouds for two months?? That's crazy! Tummy really seems to be fine now, and I've put back on about 10lbs. If I have CD, it must be the most mild case ever... The bit of reading my DH and I have done...
Hi! Sorry it's been a while; my internet connection got affected by the hurricane, but we're fine now. :) I got a call from the surgeon's office on Thursday saying he wanted to see me as soon as...
The pelvic floor thing is interesting. I think my issues originally started because of my bladder pain: the pain caused the tightness, which in turn caused more pain, etc. It creates a really bad...
This is weird...I posted a reply the other day but it's gone now. Oh well, trying again... In the pathology report, all of the polyp & dysplasia samples said "non-malignant." My GI had just said that...
So today I met with the rectal surgeon. He thinks the source of the leakage is a fissure that he could feel, and it hurt me when he pressed on it. No one else has noticed it. He said that it's too...
Yeah, I got diagnosed with IC six years ago, around the same time I had surgery for endometriosis. I love my Elmiron. It got my year-long IC flare under control and it mostly keeps me from getting...
Thanks for the warning! I take Vitamin D and calcium in the morning, iron and C at night, Elmiron for interstitial cystitis, and Synthroid for my thyroid. Sometimes I have marshmallow root tea for...
Thanks for the tip on Primadophilus! I'll look into it. I'm using a heaping tablespoon of Metamucil a day. I guess it has artificial sweetener. It's orange flavor and the ingredients include sucrose...
Hi quincy! I went back to my GI two weeks after my c-scope. All he told me was that I had precancerous polyps. I asked him if there was anything I could do to keep from getting them, and he just told...
It looks like I probably don't even have UC, but I often have some sort of funky BM just as my period is starting. Having had experience with a painful bladder and resulting pelvic floor pain that...
Hi quincy! Thanks for the reply, and thanks for the info on the crypt structure. That had me a little worried. My GI was also confused as to why the fluid is clear. He said that a fissure or fistula...
I called yesterday and got my GI to email me my colonoscopy records, so I'm all set to see the rectal surgeon next week!...
So sorry to hear about this, Greg. It is awful what illness can do to a marriage. Talk about bringing out the worst in people. I've been in couples counseling with my husband for months. Last...
I'm glad you have a good therapist. Good for you for doing what's best for you. I know it hurts. It could be that you two will be able to reconnect if she manages to extricate herself from her...
Hi everyone, Hope you fine folks are doing ok! I had mentioned that I'd post a followup to my apparently-misdiagnosed UC. Quincy had said I should get a hold of my pathology report, so I did. It...
Wow, Somedude! You're tough! I was knocked out for both of mine because I was having a colonoscopy afterwards anyway. :)...
Thanks! I'll let you know how it goes. It's in two weeks....
Thanks! I am going to try, but my doc warned me that if I swallowed too much water and wasn't able to get the pill down, the anesthesiologist wouldn't be too happy. (Is that because of the puking...
So, it looks like I don't have UC, but my bum is still leaking and there's till blood in my stool, and after two colonoscopies and endoscopies, my doctor still doesn't know why, so he wants me to do...
Thanks! Thanks for the support even though I probably don't have UC! :) Not sure when I'll check in again since my camera thingie isn't for two weeks, but I'll keep you guys posted. I'm going to call...
The proctologist's website mentioned some very scary-sounding surgery, but I haven't read beyond that. I'm going to try not to worry about it until I know exactly what it is, but I will do my...
LOL! Good point about getting an understanding of the terms. I was pretty freaked out about the precancerous polyps yesterday, but my MIL told me that they don't necessarily turn into cancer. Guess...
Quincy: Yes, I am definitely going to consult with the proctologist my doctor recommended. I looked the guy up, and he got good reviews online from other patients. Yep, I got the records from my...
notsosicklygirl: This was my second opinion, and my new doc is a UC specialist, so I'm satisfied with his diagnosis, especially since my last doc appears to have been wrong on damn near everything...
Thanks, quincy. Yeah, I need to ask him where they were. I've never had precancerous cells in other biopsies, and my previous GI didn't catch a single polyp in her colonoscopies, which were eight...
Hi guys. I wrote a couple of weeks ago after my new GI scoped me that he'd told me he hadn't seen any evidence of UC. I had my followup appointment with him today and he confirmed that he didn't...
So you can't get diagnosed unless you're in the middle of a flare? I thought the biopsies could reveal evidence....
Hi everyone! I'm new to this board. I've been posting in the ulcerative colitis board for the last few weeks, and then yesterday I found out that I don't actually have UC. Whoops! I went to get a...
Quincy: Yeah, he said UC, but he seemed pretty adamant that he wasn't seeing any evidence of it. I just checked w/DH and DH said the doc didn't mention biopsying any other tissue, but I sure hope he...
Andrina: You're not kidding. This whole experience has made me a lot more compassionate towards other people. MaxMilian: My history certainly made IBD sound likely: IBS symptoms, an autoimmune...
Sorry, quincy...he said no UC or Crohn's, and no inflammation at all. I know.. it's weird. He said that I could have had inflammation that the Pred could have controlled in the month I was on it, but...
Good point about bugs causing inflammation, fruitgirl! The doctor seemed pretty positive that I had neither colitis nor Crohn's. He sent me home with a bunch of color pictures of an ulcer-free tract,...
Bootstrap, I was diagnosed about a month ago, but my husband and the folks on this board thought that my doctor's findings were confusing. I went for a second opinion and my new doc said the old...
I'm confused, but relieved. I got 'scoped today, and my new doctor said he found NO colitis at all. He found a fungus from the damned Prednisone, acid reflux and hemorrhoids, which I already knew...
But I won't be having any food today, and tomorrow I'd be taking in with food anyway...but maybe I'll take it after my prep tonight with some Gatorade....
I like the taste as well! I get the sachets and it tastes sweet to me (the clumps at least). I just mix it with 8oz of water and it goes down easy. I pay about $93 without insurance, but my flexible...
Thanks for the clarification, Fruitgirl. Petal, I'm so sorry to hear you're going through this. I don't have anything useful to say, but I wish you the best! Like Butte said, please keep us posted on...
Thanks! So I guess I'm mainly concerned because I read in another thread on here that some people had weird reactions when they went off their Pred. That's why I was worried about skipping a dose....
I'm new to this whole IBD thing, but I thought it was possible to have both UC and Crohn's......