Hi what was your out come

Hi i have Pan Colitis....Ulcerative colitis of the entire bowel x

Thankyou hope your doing well now my symptoms are same as yours with hardly any pain I'm freaking out. Do you mind if I ask your age 

Hi , I am 35 and have mucus with blood for 8 months along with bloating stomach constantly rumbling and gurgling I always have an urgency for the toilet in the morning.  I'm so scared and worried it's something serious.  I couldn't get an hospital appointment until recently because of the pandemic they took bloods and a sample over a week ago and I'm just waiting in panic. Its actually been destroying me with anxiety for months thinking the worst constantly googling things.  

Hi I'm 37 my anxiety was through the roof, I had a colonoscopy last week I have some kind on colitis they've took samples to find out which type and I should know soon. Colitis is commonly diagnosed in mid 30s my symptoms are the same as yours try to think positive

HI I have the same symptoms a small ache below the right ribs. CT on Wednesday, once I have the results I will let you guys know 

Hi, I was also supposed to have a colonoscopy due to the symptoms from December but it also got cancelled due to COVID but now it's rescheduled to the 14th of sep. I was wondering if anyone can give me advice and my symptoms are mentioned below.

They think I have small bowel Crohn's

it all started off in December my first symptom out of nowhere I was experiencing severe diarrhea and at first I ignored it because I was too embarrassed to talk to anyone about what I went through especially when I have been going to the toilet constantly. When I ignored my symptom I started getting really bad abdominal pain and then I also realised I had blood on my stool also mucus which also had blood but then I still carried on ignoring it and I just kept it to myself because it felt too personal to me to talk about it to a doctor I just felt too embarrassed. I then thought maybe it would stop but then my diarrhea was just constant I had it from December all the way to January and then it was going on all the way till march and April. Another symptom I went through and I hated the most was loss of appetite every time I used to eat food an hour or two I had really bad abdominal pains and I couldn't handle the pain and I kept feeling sick after eating and half of the time I just felt really bloated so I decided to avoid eating half of the time because anything I really ate gave me pain and I was scared of experiencing that pain and eventually I started to eat less to avoid my symptoms which made me lose a lot of weight. I constantly use to scream at my mum because she forced me to eat I ended up getting really bad stomach pains and it just put me off eating, however there were times I was able to eat but constant periods I had really bad abdominal pains which frightened me to continue to eat anything.  I also have been experiencing constant fever I kept having high temperature and feeling tired and dizzy and I just felt isolated and upset. When I had my fever i felt so cold despite having a hot water bottle, a duvet on top of me and a fluffy blanket and I couldn't speak to my mum because I felt like she wouldn't understand and I also didn't understand what's going on with me.  My fever then ended up coming back in June and it was horrible

Hi Cupcakes, I have had similar symptoms as you with the exception of fever. I was referred for a colonoscopy which will be done on the 16th sept symptoms started in April.

My GP quickly tried to brush this under the IBS heading, 

but my symptoms persisted and got significantly worse.

In June I started to loose hair and my finger nails went opaque (to date 5 have fallen off! With the remaining 5 likely to come off too) I had a blood test which showed anemia and B12 deficiency. the medication I was given hasn't really helped.

I still pass loose stools with significant amounts of bloody mucus.

Hopefully I will have some answers on Wednesday.

Hi Cupcakes, I have had similar symptoms as you with the exception of fever. I was referred for a colonoscopy which will be done on the 16th sept symptoms started in April.

My GP quickly tried to brush this under the IBS heading, 

but my symptoms persisted and got significantly worse.

In June I started to loose hair and my finger nails went opaque (to date 5 have fallen off! With the remaining 5 likely to come off too) I had a blood test which showed anemia and B12 deficiency. the medication I was given hasn't really helped.

I still pass loose stools with significant amounts of bloody mucus.

Hopefully I will have some answers on Wednesday.

Hi all. 

I have had very similar symptoms to alot of you. Mostly mucus in stool, periods where my bowels feel full. I think I saw blood once but unsure. I've got blood tests and a stool sample to do and I'm just looking for some piece of mind really. 

Have any of you resolved this? 

Those that have said they have proctitis, what was the cause? 

Thankyou for any responses 

Hi, I've got the same conditions, what was the outcome?

Hi Adam,

I ended up having a colonoscopy October last year, this resulted in a diagnosis of Crohn's disease. 
Keep on with your GP for a referral to gastro at your hospital. 
with my diagnosis, blood and stool samples didn't highlight any issues and was constantly brushed off as ibs. I requested to speak to a different GP as my symptoms where getting worse and after a few discussions he referred me. 
I am now 1 year on in treatment, and have a follow up colonoscopy to see what effects the medication has had. 

How has it affected your daily life if you don't mind me asking. Hope the treatment has helped.

That's not a problem, so on a day to day basis from where I was to know is a massive improvement.

From diagnosis I was put on steroids and anti inflammatory medication for 10 weeks. During the 10 weeks I ran out of the meds and the symptoms returned the next day so the IBD team at the hospital arranged the additional meds and I also ended up on Adalimumab which is a biological treatment (self inject every 2 weeks).

This treatment has worked brilliantly and on a day to day basis, I do get some pains in my bowels but my toilet trips are now 1-2 times a day at its worst last year my record was 24 times! In a day. 

A key thing is to identify any triggers, keeping a food diary can help, but everyone has different triggers.

if your on Facebook I suggest joining the Crohn's & colitis uk forum, it's full of knowledgeable people who have and are going through similar  things and the support is second to non. 

But please pester your GP until you get to the route cause of your symptoms.