Question for all those who have Blood in stool..

[CrohnsPatient001]

When I was diagnoised I was told to have it in the lillium (the common place...) as well as the (uncommon place...) of at the very tip inside my anus... Occasionally I have blood in my stool (I dont have a hemeroid etc) the doctor believes its due to this "bumpyness" or something of the insides.. I was wondering if anyone here has bleeding in there stool and basically what type of diet do you go under? I have been contemplating a pure soup diet to see.. If i was best to describe my usual stool would be generally a sharp pain followed by some blood... sometimes just pain... Just curious if anyone has syomptoms like this and how they deal with them. thanks!

 

[Jeff D.]

Could you possibly have a fissure on the indside walls. Is your blood dark red or bright red. Dark means its coming from high in your intestines. Bright means its coming from the end.

 

[kpratte]

The way I was told when I had similar issues like you was that the inflammation was near an artery/vein/blood vessel and occasionally it would nick it ever so slightly. I would get dark blood and gas because all of the bacteria would be trying to digest the blood.

Any time you have a flare avoiding foods that you don't digest is a good thing as those are the ones that essentially just tumble through your system till they get to the other side. While in there, the can bump into those spots that are problematic like an artery/vein/blood vessel and cause you to bleed.

Nuts, berries, seeds, pees, corn, and popcorn are evil to my system most of the time.

- Ken

 

[Dekar]

You most probably have one fissure or more at the end of ur rectum where the stool comes out. Best thing to do is to get softer stools and let them heal (takes forever, I would know).

 

[CrohnsPatient001]

Could you possibly have a fissure on the indside walls. Is your blood dark red or bright red. Dark means its coming from high in your intestines. Bright means its coming from the end.

The blood is always bright red, from what i was told is exactly what you said that it is coming from the end, i believe the exact words on my colonscopy was that there is "nodularities" in my anus.

Any time you have a flare avoiding foods that you don't digest is a good thing as those are the ones that essentially just tumble through your system till they get to the other side.

I dont really get flare ups (if I am thinking its the same defintion a flare up is basically is the area below your stomach acheing severly with sometimes a dull pain... Right?) If that is I haven't gotten them for a few months now.

 

[kpratte]

I dont really get flare ups (if I am thinking its the same defintion a flare up is basically is the area below your stomach acheing severly with sometimes a dull pain... Right?) If that is I haven't gotten them for a few months now.

A flare is more of any time you have symptoms and not necessarily all of them.. So for me, originally I never had pain, just gas, the big D and now after a resection I get the big D, some dull pain, etc. It really depends on the person but if you ask any of us how we know we are having issues and you'll get 50 different answers but the common theme is that we know somethings not right.

- Ken

 

[Kev]

Yeah, flare up is pretty open to interpretation. In my book, I always equated it with a sudden increase in any of my symptoms that didn't go away within a reasonable time
(like, even folks w/o 'IBD can get diarhea for a day... so for me, a case of the big 'D' by itself doesn't constitute a 'flare'.. ) But, if my pains increased, and continued, or I suddenly was going to the bathroom twice as often, or my heartburn came & stayed, or any combo of a number of symptoms/indicators that my IBD was suddenly worse, I refer to it as a flare. Like, I've been slowly getting worse since nov of last year, but I don't see that as a flare.. just my continued downward slip.
But if any of my typical symptoms suddenly get worse, and continue for more than a day, then I mark that as a 'flare'. but that's just my rule of thumb interpretation, and everyone is different, their diseae is different, their attitudes & rules different.