Leaking mucous

[afidz]

I have been noticing an increased amount of mucous when I go to the bathroom. Before I would only see it when I wiped. Yesterday I actually noticed it floating in the toilet for the first time. Today, I felt like I was wet there. When I went to the bathroom I wiped the area and the toilet paper was covered in mucous. I haven't really ever noticed mucous in my stool in the past, so this is completely new to me. My GI is aware that there is mucous, but I am going to call tomorrow to let him now about the increase.
Is there something I can do to decrease or stop it until I can start Humira?
This flare is so confusing to me. Everything I know about this disease and how it makes me feel has been completely thrown out the window. I do get very mild cramps, but they aren't nearly half as bad as I remember them being before I went into remission. For the most part, my stools are solid, sometimes a little loose. From what I remember before it was completely liquid. My body hurts so much. All of my joints are swollen, I sleep for about 20-30 minutes at a time before I wake up in immense pain. I guess I just don't know what to make of it all. Humira is being dangled in front of me by my insurance company. I am trying to be patient, but C'MON already. I am miserable

 

[Jennifer]

I'm sorry Afidz. Changing your diet for now may help some with the inflammation. You could try the low residue diet for starters. When you speak with your GI ask about steroids as well (more of a short course as you are still healing from your surgery). Let us know what your GI says.

 

[Cross-stitch gal]

Some of this is what I deal with too. I pass quite a bit of mucus when I go to the restroom. Sometimes all I pass is mucus. Plus, there have been times where I've had some come out of me when I've passed gas too.

Doctor hasn't been terribly concerned about all the mucus though. Biggest concern for him has been when I've been having blood with my bms or dripping blood. So, unfortunately don't know if they'll do a whole lot about this mucus for either of us... :hug:

 

[Sophia]

I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling well, afidz, but glad to hear you are taking your signs and symptoms seriously and happy for you that you will start up on Humira!

I have the same problem, and it's identical to what cross-stitch-gal describes, and it's not very pleasant. The mucus makes me feel an extreme urgency that comes about very quickly, so at the moment I am very dependent on being close to a bathroom... I also have the dripping blood, but I haven't really told my doctor about that yet. They only want to put me on Imurel, and I'm not too keen on that since I'm just married and would like to have a baby soon.

As far as advice goes, I'm not sure I have any good advice to make it stop. I'm trying to avoid a diet rich in carbohydrates atm, as I've been told it can trigger/worsen inflammation in the gut. But I can't guarantee that it's actually helping. I guess research is very inconclusive when it comes to diet and IBD.

Hope you feel better, and let us know how it goes!

 

[Amaze]

sorry to hear that. I have mucous as well but my docs dont seem to take it serious

 

[afidz]

GI finally called back. He said just to wait it out.

 

[nogutsnoglory]

Unfortunately I also deal with a lot of mucus and doctors aren't concerned. They were when I had an abscess but now they don't consider it an infection.

Have they ruled out a possible abscess? Most likely it's just a manifestation of crohn's but if the mucus is yellow or green id be concerned about an infection.

I don't think there is much you can do besides as Jennifer said try to go low fiber to put less stress on your guts. The real test will be Humira and once the inflammation is in check the mucus should subside.

 

[afidz]

I had a CT a little while back, they would of found the abscess then wouldn't they? I don't think I have one. The mucous does have a slight yellow tint to it. GI said just to monitor it for now and if it gets worse he wil order a stool study to check for infection.

My GI's nurse was on the phone all morning and finally got Humira approved so now I am just waiting on a call from the person that is going to retrain me on how to do it.

 

[nogutsnoglory]

It depends where the abscess is and what the CT scan looked at. A little yellow tint may be ok because it gets mixed with stool.

 

[afidz]

I will keep an eye on everything. I am hopig that Humira will work as well for me as it did in the past