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From: Acrompton on 18 Sep 2007 13:25
When I formerly went into a flare up of my Crohns,
I would have diarrhea and blood. Now that I have
the ostomy, and the fact that it is retracted and
my skin is always going to suffer, I see blood
anyway. I am now having more liquid bms than
normal, and something I ate last night only took 2
hours to pass! How do I know when to worry that I
am flaring? I do feel uncomfortable with the
diarrhea in that I can feel it "marching" through
what is left of my colon...almost like strong gas
pains.

Any thoughts? Should I call my GI? I hate to
over-react.


From: novack.consulting on 19 Sep 2007 11:46
On Sep 18, 1:25 pm, "Acrompton" <adcrp...(a)bellsouthaddomafterr.net>
wrote:
> When I formerly went into a flare up of my Crohns,
> I would have diarrhea and blood. Now that I have
> the ostomy, and the fact that it is retracted and
> my skin is always going to suffer, I see blood
> anyway. I am now having more liquid bms than
> normal, and something I ate last night only took 2
> hours to pass! How do I know when to worry that I
> am flaring? I do feel uncomfortable with the
> diarrhea in that I can feel it "marching" through
> what is left of my colon...almost like strong gas
> pains.
>
> Any thoughts? Should I call my GI? I hate to
> over-react.

Are you new to your ostomy I take it? I don't believe you can really
over react when you are dealing with something new like this. I was
afraid of the same thing when I first got my colostomy and most of the
time it was normal, but one time when i almost hesitated cuase i
thought i was overreacting again, i ended up in surgery to have the
ostomy revised. I do remember it taking a couple of months for the
output to really get back to somewhat normal, however I did not have
the crohns factor involved so i am not sure how that would affect it.
Always better to call and ask the GI person is my opinion :)

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