Hello I am 26 years old and was diagnosed a few days ago with Ulcerative Colitis.
Sunday night I had what I know now to be a flare up. I was at the grocery store checking out and all of a sudden I got terrible stomach cramping. All I thought was that I had food poisoning, so I quickly drove home (thank God I live less than half a mile from there), and when I got home I had bad diarrhea and after I emptied out, just blood from there on.
Seven years ago I had the same problem happen but I wasn’t properly diagnosed. However, my concern here is that I have always, since I was a child been a constipated person. I rarely ever have diarrhea and when I do I am kind of happy in a way because that allows me to clean out. These 2 instances have been the only flare ups I have ever had. I do get bloated on occasion and all I would think was that it was related to my constipation. So, I am a little confused here. I don’t understand, if I have Colitis, then why am I usually constipated, very very rarely have diarrhea or loose stool, and could eat anything you can possibly think of in those 7 years from the first flare up and not have any problems?
Does anybody else have similar constipation with Colitis?
-Submitted in the Colitis Venting Area by an Anonymous UC’er
All of the posts from “Annonymous UC” are from ulcerative colitis people who anonymously submitted stories or Doctor Reviews, medication, supplement reviews etc… I post all these stories to the site, but they’re different from my own personal stories so hopefully this account makes more sense:) -Adam – founder of iHaveUC.com
