Colitis Pain Survey Continued Q-2

Question 2:

What do you usually do to help manage UC related pain?

(participants could mark more than one option:)

Other Options from participants were:

• Heat pack
• take buscopan
• heating pad
• microwave bean bag
• Oxy- 10 mg from my neck/ spine problems. Otherwise the docs have let me suffer until I have
• take some ginger
• tylenol
• use a hotpad
• I Pray to God all the time it works better than anything.
• Stretch, listen to music, focus on breathing, heating pads, ice packs, & massage
• Use a rice bag to sleep at night
• I change my diet for a few days until everything feels normal again! (i.e. no dairy, no caffiene, less vegetables (Fiber)
• heating pad
• I take a small piece of grated ginger ,it helps relieve the pain
• Change UC medications
• try to sleep as much as possible, withdraw from family and friends and co-workers because they can’t see what’s wrong – it’s not obvious.
• Take a bath with Epsom Salt, Lavender Oil & Baking Soda.
• Use a heat/wheat pack
• pray
• get a back rub
• heating pad on aching bones and muscles
• Heating pad
• Have chronic burning rectal pain that’s aggravated by riding, sitting or standing too long. Nothing seems to help.
• use a hot water bottle.
• lay down with a hot pad on my stomach.
• Use a heating pad
• Hot Bath, autogenous training (form of meditation), tapping cortosies,
• soak in the tub
• relief pain gel for pains in different parts of the body
• Sit on a hot-water bag or take a bath
• Smoke marijuana
• Tylenol
• Deep breathing. I breath through it like I’m in labour and having a contraction!
• Take Bath
• Take OTC Tylenol.
• Read or look at a magazine, use a heating pad, take a xanax
• Immediately go back to a more strict diet.
• drink lots of water
• yoga
• Drink plenty of water and eat healthy and not consume to much crappy food
• Put pressure on the area, play games on my phone to distract myself
• Remicade used to obliterate it.
• cry
• Infrared Sauna
• Use a heat pac.
• use a heat bag or magnesium oil rubbed into stomach
• Heat pad, peppermint tea, tomato soup (liquid diet)
• Wear comfortable clothes
• Deep slow breathing in a way that expands the stomach. Breathe in for six seconds, hold for six seconds, and release with the lips pursed as slowly as possible.
• Cannabis
• Steroids if severe and prep H
• Massage my belly to aliviate. It’s usually gas.
• hemorrhoid suppository
• Asacol med & use my suppositories
• Drink a glass of milk
• I use gravol sometimes, it helps a lot, I relax and the pain usually subsides
• cortisone or mezzavant
• Chicken broth
• Apply cold pressed castor oil to unbleached cotton flannel, place on lower abdomen, cover w/ plastic wrap, and apply heating pad for 15 min.
• Sitz bath
• Yoga and stretching
• Dr. gave me dicyclomine which helps.
• remind myself that I have been in worse pain and then ignore it
• Take CBD oil
• Take anti spasmodics
• inflammatory aids like ground Turmeric helps with the arthritic pain
• take Tylenol or Turmeric or heating pad
• soak in the bath with epsom salts (magnesium sulphate)
• drink plenty of fluids
• Rowasa enema
• walk; read a book
• warm wheatgerm bag on stomach and foot massage
• Yoga and Acupuncture
• Medical Marijuana Indica candy 10mg to start – I do not smoke it