Remedies for bowel thickening

My flare is starting to wind down. CRP is in the green, no more bleeding, and having BMs 5-6 times a day and going down as the weeks go by. The main thing I'm struggling with right now is bowel thickening. My stools are mostly solid but when they hit my sigmoid area, the only way to get them out is to really push. My latest CT scan shows the bowels have thickened quite a bit this flare. For me, the thickening effect goes away after months and then my BMs become a lot more normal looking. Until then, they have sort of a ribbony appearance. I know this is inflammation.

My question is, is there anything I can take to help heal this thickening faster? I can't do rectal meds of any kind or enemas so please don't suggest those. Even plain water causes instant irritation and that turns to bleeding, mucous and a whole other slew of problems. I've never been able to figure out why, but my body totally rejects rectal everything.

In my last flare, I tried something called StrictureHeal by this woman Jini Patel. It used DMSO, iodine, and other ingredients I forget. She said to start off with a 20% dilution, but I did 5%. It ended up burning my rectum and kicking my flare back into high gear. A friend of mine with Crohn's used the same stuff and was able to repair her rectal stenosis... so the stuff can work for some people, but my rectum just ain't havin' it!

So is there something oral I could take to help that healing along? Someone told me recently that taking a lot of collagen in my diet or as a supplement could help. Someone else said MSM and hyaluronic acid because they are commonly used for scars. Someone else said aloe juice, but the only time I tried that it was pretty laxative???

I am open to ideas. The thickening is actually quite painful as solid stool moves through there. On the plus side, no incontinence! The narrowing caused by the thickening combined with solid stool means that nothing is going to accidentally come out unless I push.

Any suggestions would be helpful!

Maybe instead of addressing the scarring, you could address the BM consistency? Perhaps too dangerous to fiddle with at this point. Sorry, just throwing things out there. It sounds frustrating.

If the thickening is due to scar tissue, nothing will help with that - scar tissue is permanent I'm afraid. If it's due to inflammation, it should get better once the inflammation has gone. But there's nothing which will speed up the healing process and you may make things worse by chucking everything but the kitchen sink at it. If you know it's inflammation, let it heal at its own pace.

PS: I have a similar problem, but because I don't have a colon (only a rectum and half a sigmoid colon) my stools are never solid anymore - at best they're mush. But I still sometimes have to push to get the stool out. It never comes out all in one go either, because that would make it too easy.