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Irunfast
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Posted 11/27/2022 10:30 PM (GMT -8)
33 male. I’m pretty athletic. I do track and field. Everything was going smooth. Woke up next day. Had diarrhea with green color that made me ego to urgent care. They did blood test and they wanted to do a ct scan. They told me I have to go to the ER so I checked in and they repeated some tests and told me this

Probable mild circumterential wall thickening within the proximal/mid ascending colon with mild surrounding induration suggestive of acute/infectious/inflammatory colitis. Other possibility of neoplastic etiology considered less likely. Clinical correlation is advised.
2. Moderate to large amount of colonic stool burden. Clinical correlation for constipation is advised.

So I was diagnosed with colitis and they send the paper work to a GI specialist to get a colonoscopy done asap. They sent me home and that’s that. Now I’m at home scared out of my mind. I’m having nasty bubble feeling in stomach. Nausea. Can’t eat. Scared. Anxiety worried that it’s the C word worrying that im really going to get sick worried that my running career is over. I just don’t know what’s going on it all happens to fast I have no information of anything
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beave
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Posted 11/28/2022 12:09 AM (GMT -8)
Any blood in the diarrhea? Urgency to go? How frequent? Any fever? Any family history of Crohn's or ulcerative colitis or rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis or other similar things?

Did they order stool tests to check for infections? That should be done first, before any further testing. Your primary care doc can order that before you see a GI.
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Irunfast
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Posted 11/28/2022 12:41 AM (GMT -8)
No blood it’s just green like weird green neon color. My stomach just been bubbling I can’t go I wanna go but nothing. My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. My dad has high Cholesterol and that’s about it. All they did was a CT scan and blood work and that’s it and they sent it off to a colonoscopy who I need to call in the morning and that’s all. They gave me amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium. No fever no blood that I seen. That’s as much as I got just having a lot of gas too. They just hit me with I have colitis and they send it to a colonoscopy doc who I have to call Monday morning to get it asap. That’s all I didn’t know what it even was till I searched it when I got home. I did go back and talk to the doctor and he said it’s fine don’t worry to much get the endoscopy done and go from there. I have chronic anxiety too and always had constipation. No pain. No appetite kinda depressed honestly. Little nauseous. Mostly scared. Esp when urgent doctor said I could have the C word Like that what him me hard
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:03 AM (GMT -8)
OK, first thing I would do is contact your primary care doc in the morning, tell them you were in the ER with diarrhea and had some tests run, and that you need to have stool cultures done.

I wouldn't take the antibiotic, at least not yet. You don't know what you're dealing with. ERs often do that - sending somebody home with an antibiotic - before they know what the person even has. If it's an infection you have, an antibiotic might well be needed. But you don't know yet whether you have an infection, nor what kind of infection it might be, so you don't know which antibiotic would be needed.

And if it turns out that it's not an infection but is something like ulcerative colitis (or Crohn's disease), the antibiotic might just make it worse.

So get the stool tests done as quickly as you can, and go from there with following up with a GI for a colonoscopy.

Frankly, this doesn't look or sound like UC to me. And it's very unlikely to be cancer, especially at your age. It's most likely either an infection (a bacterial infection due to what is commonly called 'food poisoning'), or it *might* be Crohn's disease.

For the time being, you might want to eat a bland diet (rice, chicken without skin, plain potatoes, yogurt, bananas, etc), and avoid nuts, seeds, raw vegetables, things like that, until you know what you're dealing with. And make sure to drink fluids to stay hydrated when you have active diarrhea.
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:08 AM (GMT -8)
You need to MAKE SURE a stool testing will be done asap if you need to wait for a colonoscopy. At least you will know what's going on. Green diarrhea can be caused by bacteria, virus or parasite. I don't see tthat it's any indication of cancer, unless the doc mentioned a colonoscopy can screen for cancer?
I do suggest you check yourself for covid tho.

What dosage and dosing of Clavulin are you on?

Welcome to the forum.
Hang tough...hope you get answers soon.

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Posted 11/28/2022 1:14 AM (GMT -8)

beave said...
OK, first thing I would do is contact your primary care doc in the morning, tell them you were in the ER with diarrhea and had some tests run, and that you need to have stool cultures done.

I wouldn't take the antibiotic, at least not yet. You don't know what you're dealing with. ERs often do that - sending somebody home with an antibiotic - before they know what the person even has. If it's an infection you have, an antibiotic might well be needed. But you don't know yet whether you have an infection, nor what kind of infection it might be, so you don't know which antibiotic would be needed.

And if it turns out that it's not an infection but is something like ulcerative colitis (or Crohn's disease), the antibiotic might just make it worse.

So get the stool tests done as quickly as you can, and go from there with following up with a GI for a colonoscopy.

Frankly, this doesn't look or sound like UC to me. And it's very unlikely to be cancer, especially at your age. It's most likely either an infection (a bacterial infection due to what is commonly called 'food poisoning'), or it *might* be Crohn's disease.

For the time being, you might want to eat a bland diet (rice, chicken without skin, plain potatoes, yogurt, bananas, etc), and avoid nuts, seeds, raw vegetables, things like that, until you know what you're dealing with. And make sure to drink fluids to stay hydrated when you have active diarrhea.

Yea they didn’t order anything stool test but I have a stool test kit at home that I haven’t used. What’s Crohn's disease? Idk anything about any of this. Is it worse then the other?
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:19 AM (GMT -8)

quincy said...
You need to MAKE SURE a stool testing will be done asap if you need to wait for a colonoscopy. At least you will know what's going on. Green diarrhea can be caused by bacteria, virus or parasite. I don't see tthat it's any indication of cancer, unless the doc mentioned a colonoscopy can screen for cancer?
I do suggest you check yourself for covid tho.

What dosage and dosing of Clavulin are you on?

It’s 875mg/125mg
They checked me 2x for Covid and negative. I used a ennema this morning and I use them when I get backed up so I know how to use them easily but man it was so painful this time around. It was green then brown and stool was brown and now I’m passing gas. I have no appetite and when I eat i get panic afraid to vomit I have a phobia with vomit. Btw I had a endoscope done 1 week ago came out clean. Im on Pepcid. I think when I was at the ER they mention they will do a stool test at the procedure and they will also do a clean up so I don’t have to prep and im thinking they doing this in a day or few. I will call my other doctors as well. Idk all I got was from the CT scan they found I had colitis and discharge papers as well stated that’s my diagnostics.

Welcome to the forum.
Hang tough...hope you get answers soon.

q

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Posted 11/28/2022 1:26 AM (GMT -8)
Colitis just means inflammation in the colon. That's what was seen on the CT scan you had done. It shows some "thickening" of the bowel wall on the right side of your colon (the colon starts on the bottom right side of your abdomen, goes up toward the ribs, called ascending colon; then crosses over right to left side across the belly button, called transverse colon; then descends down the left side, called descending colon; then turns toward the lower center, called sigmoid; then the rectum, and the anus).

So this colitis could be infectious colitis, ie, a temporary illness that can be cleared up with appropriate antibiotics. Or it could be a chronic inflammatory disease called IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), the two main forms of that being Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease.

The stool cultures will help determine. A colonoscopy will also help the diagnosis if the stool cultures come back negative (meaning they didn't find an infection).
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:30 AM (GMT -8)
Colonoscopy requires you to do a "prep" the night before, which means drinking a lot of a laxative, so much that you go to the bathroom over and over again until your colon is completely empty before the procedure.

They would want any stool samples taken before you do such prep.
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:36 AM (GMT -8)

beave said...
Colitis just means inflammation in the colon. That's what was seen on the CT scan you had done. It shows some "thickening" of the bowel wall on the right side of your colon (the colon starts on the bottom right side of your abdomen, goes up toward the ribs, called ascending colon; then crosses over right to left side across the belly button, called transverse colon; then descends down the left side, called descending colon; then turns toward the lower center, called sigmoid; then the rectum, and the anus).

So this colitis could be infectious colitis, ie, a temporary illness that can be cleared up with appropriate antibiotics. Or it could be a chronic inflammatory disease called IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), the two main forms of that being Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease.

The stool cultures will help determine. A colonoscopy will also help the diagnosis if the stool cultures come back negative (meaning they didn't find an infection).

I have no idea. All I know is I had Ct scan and mri done before and im always backed up I been dealing with that since high school. Idk it was an urgent care that did it. They wanted to do a ct with contrast and begged me to do it but I’m allergic to it so I declined it many times. So one doctor told me like hey you have colitis and I’m like okay? And he said that was it then another doctor came in and asked me few questions and next thing you know it he told me to go to the ER they sent the scan and everything there and I went to the ER they did blood work and looked at the CT they sent and blood work was fine and that was it. They sent it off to the same doc who did my endoscopy last week to do a colonoscopy so I’m like okay and when I got home and started googling it I’m like wow this isn’t just a okay here you got colitis and bye I didn’t know it was this huge so I drove back for my answers and they came out and told me not to worry so much it’s not a huge deal they don’t know anything much and like the paper says it’s mild and I’m like but it’s a big deal and told me they can’t really check me back in cause they did everything they can so I’m home depressed waiting till morning to make calls. Like I’m a nervous reck.
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:39 AM (GMT -8)
It's understandable to be a nervous wreck right now and to be overwhelmed with all this new info. Just take it easy on yourself and get some sleep, then call you doctor in the morning and get everything started by getting the stool samples tested and go from there.

When did you have the MRI done? Was it an MRI of the abdomen? What contrast are you allergic to?
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:59 AM (GMT -8)

beave said...
It's understandable to be a nervous wreck right now and to be overwhelmed with all this new info. Just take it easy on yourself and get some sleep, then call you doctor in the morning and get everything started by getting the stool samples tested and go from there.

When did you have the MRI done? Was it an MRI of the abdomen? What contrast are you allergic to?

They just did a ct scan no mri And blood work that’s it’s. I’m doing an ennema now and the bottle i guess backflahsed and has weird light color poop. When I try to eat something my stomach just rumbles. We see what comes
Out here in few min if it’s blood I prob go back to the ER. I felt like having to go all day but just can’t that’s why I hope this enema does something. I can drink Gatorade and water so I will do that as soon as I do this
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Irunfast
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Posted 11/28/2022 2:10 AM (GMT -8)
So I finished with the ennema and it’s was painful nothing but brown heavy diarrhea came out and when it comes out my butte hole hurts so bad. Like pretty painful. More I pushed out the more it was hurting.
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Posted 11/28/2022 11:27 AM (GMT -8)
Ok...do the stool sample please. But not right after you do the enema.

Who makes the c-scope appt for you?
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Posted 11/28/2022 12:38 PM (GMT -8)
Get the stool test done, it will take some time to get a scope scheduled. Back when I had green poop, the stool test came back positive for c-diff infection, I was put on vancomycin to clear it up.

Good luck.
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Posted 11/28/2022 1:37 PM (GMT -8)

quincy said...
Ok...do the stool sample please. But not right after you do the enema.

Who makes the c-scope appt for you?
q

The ER doctor has me appointment with a GI in 3 days to talk and then Monday for a colonoscopy but he said I don’t need too because a year ago in may I had upper and bottom done so a year ago. I had upper cause of acid reflux issues and bottom cause I was constipated badly and still am. So I have a meeting with him Thursday and Monday a colonoscopy
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Posted 11/28/2022 2:16 PM (GMT -8)

straydog said...
Get the stool test done, it will take some time to get a scope scheduled. Back when I had green poop, the stool test came back positive for c-diff infection, I was put on vancomycin to clear it up.

It’s back to brown now. They don’t want a stool test. I asked when I had to pee. They doing the whole colonoscopy Monday and before that this Thursday he wants to have a talk. He feels suspicious because last may I had both edo and colonoscopy done and it was fine. I asked what to do with all this bathroom like I have school last test this week and told me to take Imodium so is that good to take?

Good luck.

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Posted 11/28/2022 5:54 PM (GMT -8)
Odd that they won't do any stool tests. It really doesn't make sense to me. That's usually the first thing that gets tested with symptoms like yours.

Where do you live? I am amazed at how fast you have a dr appt and are getting a colonoscopy so quickly. Since you are prone to constipation I suggest that you eat lightly for several days before you do the prep in order to get cleaned out completely for the scope.
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Posted 11/28/2022 6:07 PM (GMT -8)
Are you going to the bathroom a lot? You mentioned that you are constipated and have to use enemas on order to go so I don't understand the reason for imodium.
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