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Posted 6/25/2014 6:51 AM (GMT -5)
When I'm constipated I see blood, when I'm not I don't.. I have to drink over 2ltrs of water a day to prevent constipation. Could constipation cause blood?
Posted 6/25/2014 7:11 AM (GMT -5)
Yes, because constipation can cause/irritate hemmies.
Posted 6/25/2014 7:20 AM (GMT -5)
What fruit girl said! Keep pushing the fluids. I used to drink that much water as well, although lately I drink more like 1.5 liters a day. Just carry water with you wherever you go.
Posted 6/25/2014 7:21 AM (GMT -5)
I had it happen to me. My cause were hemmies and fissues. It wasn't a flare thankfully.

My nurse told me to use a mild laxative.
Posted 6/25/2014 7:28 AM (GMT -5)
Thanks everyone.. I feel fine, absolutely no other symptoms
Just blood with a hard stool. When I've drank plenty and have soft stools, no blood. It only takes a day or two of being slack with water and I get it constipated.
Posted 6/25/2014 8:44 AM (GMT -5)
And you're not flaring?
Posted 6/25/2014 8:52 AM (GMT -5)
I agree with everyone. Blood probably not due to UC.
Posted 6/25/2014 10:36 AM (GMT -5)
No, no flare.. Just constipation.
Posted 6/25/2014 10:41 AM (GMT -5)
I just remembered that I took cortisone suppositories too
Posted 6/25/2014 1:33 PM (GMT -5)
If you have hemmies and/or fissure...the blood may be from that.

If you have blood around the stool and you poo out mucus and blood between bms, that's weighing in more to a flare, albeit limited. Constipation doesn't mean inflammation isn't causing it, and there are varying degrees of inflammation...one being friability/bleeding.

Have you been using the enemas? have you been off them for a while?

q
Posted 6/26/2014 7:34 AM (GMT -5)
You can never be sure unless you jam a camera up there.
Posted 6/26/2014 8:44 AM (GMT -5)
Yes I'm due for a colonoscopy. Waiting to hear from my doctor. No meds haven't changed. I never even had issues with constipation until I was put on PPI's.. Worst thing I ever done starting those. I only notice blood with hard stools
Posted 6/26/2014 9:22 AM (GMT -5)
My last colonoscopy, almost two years ago. I'd been off meds and had blood. Colonoscopy showed no viable proctitis. Had to wait for biopsy result which showed microscopic inflammation. I've never had ulcers.
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