Burning Pain in the Rectum

[Charlotte.]

For a few months I am experiencing increasing burning pain in the rectum area in addition to my normal pain which I did not have when I was diagnosed. The inflammation started in the small intestine. Anyone else having similar symptoms? As I am in a flare-up right now, this burning pain is not getting any better with prednisolone yet.

 

[araceli]

Sorry about you not feeling well. Is it always there? Does it get worse when you go to the bathroom? It can be a fissure.

 

[Charlotte.]

Thank you Araceli! It's not a fissure, that has already been checked. The pain comes and goes and feels a bit more upwards than the anus, more the rectum in fact. It is not as intense as the pain in the terminal ileum area but resembles that pain. I thought it could start inflaming there as well? It was not there when I received high dose steroids intravenously a few days ago.

 

[Lady Organic]

could be hemorrhoids too.
is the pain better in the morning when you wake up?
aggravated by bowel movement, long time sitting?
do you notice a pattern?

 

[shamrock15]

I agree with lady organic. A few more details are needed here. Is the pain associated with bowel movements? Relieved or aggravated by bowel movements?

For me, I sometimes get some inflammation in my rectum (I also do have a confirmed stricture there) that is made worse when straining with bowel movements. It is pretty uncomfortable for about an hour afterwards but then subsides. When my disease was active it wouldn't really subside and was extremely unpleasant. I think there are possibilities of infection as well, although clotrimaderm seems to help really well with that.

 

[Charlotte.]

Thank you altogether! Well, it's not haemorrhoids as well, or can that appear within a few weeks? My doctor told me it would probably be some inflammation activity in the rectum at an early stage so when the other symptoms of Crohn's disappear (hopefully very soon when my new medication kicks in!) that should disappear as well.
I also had this kind of pain in the rectum some months ago then it disappeared and I forgot to mention it at my doctor's appointment as well but now it's there again, and stronger than before.
It's not really connected to bowel movements, the burning pain just comes and goes, stays for a few seconds or minutes and then disappears again. When I have many bowel movements in a short amount of time it does become more severe so, yes, there is some link between that but only when I have many many bowel movements.
Sometimes it even feels like cramps. Weird feeling, but it seems as if it is linked to inflammation.
Hope it will disappear soon.