Stool and blood results..

What do you mean infection and colitis? Or do you mean infectious colitis?

What other meds are you on?

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Pins and needles feelings in your hands and feet can occur when:

1.) You have diabetes
2.) You have peripheral neuropathy

It's not necessarily related to any medication you are taking (as there are other potential causes), but anything is possible. Certainly tell your doctor about what you are experiencing and he/she can investigate further and help narrow down the cause (run additional tests, etc.).

Unfortunately that is just how UC is. As UC is anything but consistent bm-to-bm and it is very, very frustrating to us as we all try to read into what we see within the toilet bowl and attempt to predict the future, just like a fortune teller reading tea leaves! Much like the fortune teller & future thing is totally bunk, so is trying to read the future by what we see in our *ahem* less than savory brew. Just know that there is a great deal of daily variation for everyone with UC and that is 100 percent normal, and nothing at all to worry about. Even when confirmed to be within a clinical/deep/quiescent remission, my stool varies a lot from solid and normal, to very soft and loose, and many steps in between. When we're healing the variation is a whole lot wider and wilder. We can always add a bit of fiber supplementation, like metamucil to give us a bit more consistency day to day.

Often, we tend to see the most blood during our first bm of the day. As UC bleeding is microscopic bleeding from tiny ulcers, that pools up over time and is most noticeable when we go the longest time between poops. That might be your first morning bm, after sleeping 6+ hours.

Sometimes bleeding is our very, very last symptom to go after a flareup, so hang in there. Give it some time, if that is the only UC symptom you are experiencing then you are definitely on the right track!