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Posted 3/27/2014 6:46 PM (GMT -5)
I'm still puzzled by my need to poop four times in less than an hour, usually one day a week (though it disappeared for two weeks and I thought I was in remission!) it's my only remaining symptom. The poops are solid, just I poop, feel like I'm done, then have to go again 5-10 minutes later...up to about 4 times. I've tried googling it, but get lots of gross x rated topics shocked or people have diarrhea. This isn't liquid, not even paste, it's logs! Nice soft easy to pass logs. I found one place that said its called incomplete evacuation, but when I google that I get people who say they poop and still feel full of poop. I don't have that. There's just a regular poop, I go about my regular day...then another poop! And another poop! I'd say they become a little more urgent as they get up in number, but still solid. What do you think this is from? Why only one day a week like this? I think if it were just the rectal inflammation it'd be every day, no?
Posted 3/27/2014 7:28 PM (GMT -5)
Its because of your screen name.
you've hit remission but your toomuchpoopin decided it needed to continue atleast one day so you won't be a liar.


;)
Posted 3/27/2014 7:33 PM (GMT -5)
You might be on to something...maybe I should call myself "justenoughpoopin"
Posted 3/27/2014 7:35 PM (GMT -5)
"One of the more distressing and embarrassing ulcerative colitis symptoms is an urgent need to have a bowel movement (also called tenesmus). At times, there may be a feeling of incomplete evacuation, even though no further stool may be passed."
Posted 3/27/2014 7:41 PM (GMT -5)
Isn't tenesmus when you feel like you have to poop but don't poop? I don't have that. After I poop I have no feeling of fullness or any feeling I need to poop. I feel good.. Then, when I'm out of the bathroom, moving around I have to poop again. I go to the bathroom and always have poop.
Posted 3/27/2014 7:44 PM (GMT -5)
sounds like she has plenty of vacuation goin on poop man !
Posted 3/27/2014 7:46 PM (GMT -5)
Lol, yes, too many darn poops! A four poop day wouldn't alarm me if they were spaced out, I'd write it off as eating a lot or something, but four crammed back to back like that is nuts.
Posted 3/27/2014 8:51 PM (GMT -5)
This kind of thing happens to me relatively frequently*. Today was a five-timer in maybe 30 minutes. Just like you said, they get looser each time. Sometimes they go completely loose, sometimes they're just less formed at the end.

*I've been dealing with constipation the last year, so this doesn't happen nearly as much as it used to. It's also been happening for many years, including when I didn't have rectal inflammation.
Posted 3/27/2014 10:36 PM (GMT -5)
Maybe you need to read another chapter or two!
Posted 3/27/2014 11:37 PM (GMT -5)
I have the same problem (with or without tenesmus being present) I just poop so many times literally back to back when I first get up in the am, gawd there's even times when I'm wiping thinking I'm done (don't feel any urge to poop) then all the sudden I feel a fart and then the urge to poop some more) I honestly hate this disease and I'm sick of it toying with me relentlessly.
Posted 3/28/2014 8:21 AM (GMT -5)
Pb4, I find it best to just sit on the toilet for 20-30 minutes before getting up (way better than the frustration of wiping and then sitting down again right away). I still have this habit even though my uc isn't that bad in that regard anymore.

I am productive as I play games on my cellphone, read the headlines, and post HealingWell responses lol. 60% of HW posts from this forum are done from the potty according to a survey I just made up (I have a good gut feeling about those numbers though).
Posted 3/28/2014 10:33 AM (GMT -5)
This happens to me too! I was at a businesses lunch the other day, went before we left then 15 minutes later standing a line in a store with no bathroom and thought I'd have an accident! Funny thing is I managed to hold it and the need completely went away. Went and found a bathroom asap anyway and really had to TRY at that point. It was totally weird. Then usually thatbisvthat for the day!
Posted 3/28/2014 10:50 AM (GMT -5)
I have days like this too. Usually go four times and its all normal. I don't get any urgency and mine doesn't become loose but I still go a few times. And then a lot of times I won't go at all the next day.
Posted 3/28/2014 11:03 AM (GMT -5)
it seems like a pretty good trade off sheri - if only it could be planned that way :-)
Posted 3/28/2014 12:58 PM (GMT -5)
ipoop, if I sit on the toilet that long I get terrible pain in my legs from sitting on the toilet, I know because many times I've had no choice but to sit there for 20 minutes or longer getting all the stool out and then still having to go multiple times more that day (this happens when my flares are at a severe level) and it's exhausting and painful.
Posted 3/28/2014 6:25 PM (GMT -5)
That happens to me sometimes, the worst thing is, wiping/flushing/washing of hands, and then repeating the whole process again, sometimes three times..It seems as soon as I start to wash my hands I need to go again! yeah
Posted 3/28/2014 10:42 PM (GMT -5)
Well, sounds like its not just me. So, what's the consensus, sign of active inflammation?
Posted 3/29/2014 2:56 PM (GMT -5)
Yes, still some inflammation because you're not fully treated med-wise. The inflammation could be so slight and extended the entire rectum since you're still having solid poos.

I had that recently as well, just upped the enemas to nightly (you need to be on them!) and increased the probiotics...I mentioned this all in the other post.

I have one or two poos depending on how much and what I might eat the day before. I asked my GI about that, and he said that if there's still some in the sigmoid, it'll follow soon afterward.
OR, if I have a stressful day previously, I might have a smaller poo and then a bigger one within the hour.

As well, you've recently added fibre, so that could also increase the amount of stool in bulk. And if it's on the softer side of solid, that's a good thing, but isn't all in one bunch to be "downloaded".

Hang tough...I think increasing the oral meds, probiotics and the rectals, you should see improvement.

The fact that you're not having extreme urgency is a good thing..so improvement is obvious.
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