It's been 2 1/2 months since I started having issues with this rectal bleeding. It still has not ceased. Blood work at the gastro doctor showed no flare up. The 21 days of Rowasa enemas did no good, used so many weeks of tubes for hemorrhoids also twice a day, did no good, my gastro doctor said this could take months to heal up. Had a rectal exam, no mass was felt. But yet, depending on how my stools are when I go to the bathroom depends on how much blood I see. I feel stinging way down in the pelvic area, burning in my backside, and when I go and do what amounts to a marble that is when I see most of the bleeding. Don't know what else to try. This is driving me crazy. Don't know what else to do.

Hey Quincy, no visual inspection of the rectum. It was my gynecologist that did the digital rectal exam. I had a colonoscopy back the end of February. Everything was fine in that area, just slight redness throughout my colon.

You definitely need to go back and discuss that rectal bleeding isn't normal. If you had mild inflammation throughout your colon at your last scope, there's no reason you would be guaranteed to not be flaring now..

Explain the bleeding and how are your bms..etc.

q

Hi, I wanted to share how I successfully ended my last flare. It started while I was in the hospital for a liver problem. It was bad. I was put on prednisone for a month and tapered for a month. Shortly after I finished the taper, the bleeding started again. Prednisone is just like a bandage not a cure for me.

I read a study that concluded using oral Asacol and Mesalamine enemas together had a better remission rate than prednisone. So I tried them. I could tell by the stool that my bleeding was further up than the enema would go. So, I decided to try one enema diluted with distilled water in equal parts into two bottles. (i washed an empty one for the second one) I put the liquid from both bottles in and held it as long as I could. It will cramp, but if you let the cramp past it will ease. At first I could only hold it in a short time because of the cramping, maybe an hour. I did this for 6 weeks every night. After just a few days, I could keep it in half the night. The bleeding stopped after about a week. As the weeks went by, I could keep it in all night. Eventually, it would all be absorbed and I knew the inflammation was gone.

After 6 weeks, I tried every other night for a while. Then every 3 days for while. Now I use one 2 times a week to maintain. I have been cautious about stopping it completely and may use it 2 times a week for several more months.

I can use the enemas not and it will be absorbed in about an hour and I could get up and have nothing come out. Success! As I understand it, the colon's job is to absorb water, but when you are so inflamed it can't, thus diarrhea.

I hope this helps someone. It was a miracle for me. I am feeling good again