does a flare always mean blood?

maddi1

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Posted 11/7/2007 12:03 PM (GMT -7)

when everyone on this board uses the term "flare" does it mean blood, mucous, d etc.? Could a flare also just be no blood, formed stool, but mucous is present?

oct 2007 dx ulcerative proctitis. on canasa suppositories & cortifoam

sodbuster19

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Posted 11/7/2007 12:16 PM (GMT -7)

As for me, what you just decribed is usally the start of a flre for me. Then comes the blood and D.

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UCreallySUCKS

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Posted 11/7/2007 12:26 PM (GMT -7)

I've been flaring for 1.5 years, and have only had a couple days with minor blood/mucous during the past year. So a flare doesn't necessarily mean blood/mucous. If your colon is inflammed, then you're flaring.

---Nathan--- 31 yr old male

Diagnosed May 2006 w/severe UC (pancolitis)

Currently in mild/moderate flare

2 400mg Asacol 4X day

20 mg Prednisone

1 multivitamin/day

2 grams calcium/day

75mg Imuran/day

100mg Tramadol/day for abdominal pain (as needed)

1 Fioricet ever 4 hrs as needed for severe migraines

princesa

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Posted 11/7/2007 12:30 PM (GMT -7)

Not for me. I've had mild to moderate flares with no blood at all. In fact, I haven't really bled since the first year or two after I was diagnosed.

Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis spring 1999

C-scope confirmed UC diagnosis 9/18/2007

Therapeutic dose sulfasalazine, back on a pred taper for first flare in years. Down to 10 mg and feeling much better.

Probiotics, l-glutamine and fish oil caps. George's aloe vera juice and Mucosaheal.

tjf

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Posted 11/7/2007 12:35 PM (GMT -7)

My flare signs are typically urgency, mucous and blood. Mucous being the first sign things are headed south for me.

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pb4

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Posted 11/7/2007 1:01 PM (GMT -7)

Flares can consist of many symptoms or few symptoms, as long as your bowel habits are not "normal" like before getting IBD then there is some degree of a flare going on.

:)

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UC Fighter

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Posted 11/7/2007 1:07 PM (GMT -7)

I'm flaring but I don't usually see blood.

Current Prescriptions:

~~40 mg~~ 30 mg Prednisone per day, 1 x per day

1000 mg Sulfasalazine, 4x per day

1 Mesalamine Enema per day

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