What time of day is Crohn's Disease most active

[Hotwire Aircraft]

Does anyone notice a difference in severity and time of day? I seem to have my most painful moments in the morning especially if I wake up early, get ready and have to immediately drive to work. On days I can sleep in (rare with 2 kids) it seems things aren't so bad. This really doesn't mean more or less sleep as I will stay up later on nights I don't have to get up early. Just the having to wake up and get going part. Could be just more stressful?

 

[imisspopcorn]

Yes!!! I am in the Bathroom mostly in the mornings especially after breakfast. It usually slows down in the afternoon. For me I don't think it has to do with sleep because it usually wakes me up. I have my own built in alarm clock with out a snooze button!

 

[RHOV]

Definitely in the morning! And generally within an hour of eating.

 

[kello82]

+1 on all that!
my poo time was definitly always the morning. it was so SO bad, mornings that i could take it slow were the best. wake up, poo, and go back to bed.
i was late for school more often then not every single year lol. i needed an after poo nap every morning whether i had school or not.

i definitly think that the getting up and moving around after being still for so long is kind of a shock to the system and tends to wake up your bowels, no matter what time it is

 

[Lunitik AP]

Bathroom time is usually just after breakfast, I get a lot of pain at night (early hours of the morning) though, I usually wake up around 2 or 3am in lots of pain.

 

[Cookie]

Bathroom time is usually just after breakfast, I get a lot of pain at night (early hours of the morning) though, I usually wake up around 2 or 3am in lots of pain.

That's me too!!!!!

 

[forum contributor]

Mostly bathroom time is in the morning but the pain and bloating are mostly in the afternoon/night time.

 

[farm]

Most of my pain and trips to the bathroom are in the evening. Of course I have to rush to take that moring dew drop in, ya know.

 

[NatalieMT]

I more often than not wake up early to use the bathroom, at the moment that's from 8-9am and take painkillers, antispasmodics etc. If I sleep in until around 10.30am I do find I feel better. I also find usually throughout the day I'm okay-ish and then my symptoms/pain worsen again in the evening. I take more painkillers before I sleep and put hot water bottles in my bed because the heat is soothing and the night goes better that way.

Things don't always follow that pattern but that's reasonably rare at the moment.

 

[kromom1]

My symptoms are definitely worse in the mornings - I get up at 5:00 and usually always have to poo within 15 minutes of getting up. Then I normally have gut pain, rectal pain and joint pain for 2-3 hours, and sometimes need to poo 1 or 2 more times before it mostly goes away for the rest of the day, though now I seem to be experiencing nausea off and on throughout the day.

 

[forum contributor]

My symptoms are definitely worse in the mornings - I get up at 5:00 and usually always have to poo within 15 minutes of getting up. Then I normally have gut pain, rectal pain and joint pain for 2-3 hours, and sometimes need to poo 1 or 2 more times before it mostly goes away for the rest of the day, though now I seem to be experiencing nausea off and on throughout the day.

Hey... do you know what the cause of your rectal pain is?

I didn't know for years. I just had these stabbing pains in my butt for seemingly no reason. But then my most recent colonoscopy showed rectal ulcers. My GI put me on Canasa butt rockets and I've only had a few since.

 

[kromom1]

My rectal pain seems to be a different kind of pain from what you describe. It feels like I need to have a huge BM, but it won't come out. I'm not constipated, though, because I do have BMs. My doctor calls it "tenesmus," which is defined as "A painful spasm of the urogenital diaphragm with an urgent desire to evacuate the bowel or bladder, involuntary straining, and the passage of little fecal matter or urine."

 

[forum contributor]

My rectal pain seems to be a different kind of pain from what you describe. It feels like I need to have a huge BM, but it won't come out. I'm not constipated, though, because I do have BMs. My doctor calls it "tenesmus," which is defined as "A painful spasm of the urogenital diaphragm with an urgent desire to evacuate the bowel or bladder, involuntary straining, and the passage of little fecal matter or urine."

Oh ok, I started having tenesmus when I had microscopic colitis (before it turned into full-blown whatever-kind-of-colitis this is now). I still have it now when I feel like I have to go but barely anything comes out. I also have interstitial cystitis, so it's the same w/urination.

It's pretty miserable, I know

I feel your pain, and I'm sorry.

I hope you find some answers, and soon!

 

[ITSMEAGAIN]

usually hits me in the morning, about an hour after eating. which isn't always good because i'm at work then. Had some awkward moments excusing myself from a floor orientation speech i've been giving to my staff to run to the bathroom.

 

[JillianB82]

I usually have some pain in the morning, but the D issues do not really hit until the afternoon.

 

[bphenn]

Most of my pain seems to happen when I am relaxed so in the morning and evenings. I often wake up in pain through the night every hour or so.

 

[chief]

most of my pain happens just as i want to sleep around 10pm, i'll wake up in the mornings in pain to if i haven't got the heater on. If i get suddenly cold at anttime of the day ( or night ) it triggers my pain.

 

[Procyon]

I always feel good in the morning. Then things deteriorate as the day goes on. But once the sun sets, things get even worse, and I feel pretty sick. Kinda weird, I guess. And then people wonder why I don't go out at night, haha.