Flare with no blood?

[liv]

Just curious if anybody on here has had a Crohn's or Colitis flare up without blood in their stool?
You can have several or all other symptoms like fever, nausea, vomiting, extreme pain etc. but no blood.
I myself find that even if I'm in serious pain I start to wonder if it's really a flare if I'm not bleeding.

Just general discussion! Anyone can feel free to answer!!:heart:

 

[Jennifer]

Yes it is possible to be in a flare and not have any bleeding.

 

[ctrl z]

I've never had blood during a flare. Just intense pain.

 

[NicoleKS]

I have never had bloody stools...

 

[chrisnsteph1022]

No blood here! I did at the worst of the flare, but not since I started Remicade (yet I'm still flaring).

 

[CLynn]

No blood in mine during flares, ever.

 

[kiny]

You can have flares without blood, I would say that from listening to people that flares with blood are actually more rare than flares without. If there is blood you should be in a hospital. Inflammation doesn't need to include wounds that bleed, it can just be inflammation or a wound that hasn't healed yet. Another thing is that there is sometimes blood invovled but you don't notice it in stool, a test can determine if there is blood in stool or not.

 

[Gazza]

everytime i have a flare there is blood all the time. my gastro consultant just gives me prednisolone and it seems to sort it out

 

[2thFairy]

The only thing that stopped my bleeding was cortisone enemas, but the flare continued even then.

 

[Manzyb]

I very very rarely have blood while flaring. I usually only have either dried blood or red blood when I get fissures and things like that. On a normal flaring basis though, no blood.

 

[Supreme_2]

No blood here either. Only symptom right now is intense pain in left lower abdomen. Just had colonoscopy and my UC is active according to my biopsy. I never bleed nor run fever.

 

[EthanPSU]

I'm with most of the people here also, I never have any blood during flares