Wind Other symptoms include: Frequent or continuous sensation that you need to have a bowel movement A feeling of fullness and incomplete emptying in your rectum Frequency and urgency to the toilet 10 or more times a day, only to have a alarm”, pass BMW or unsatisfactory small pieces of stool. This is quite “false different to the bloody liquid diarrhoea suffered by patients with more widespread colitis involving the colon. There may also be symptoms quite similar to those of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): Pain with movements Rectal pain Pain on the left side of abdomen Bloating and rumbling A feeling of constipation Important factors to note are: The symptoms do not usually cause disturbance during the night The patient’s general health remains good, with no weight loss (unlike widespread ulcerative colitis) Blood tests are usually normal The presence of blood does not mean that you have bowel cancer, but if you have not been diagnosed with proctitis, colitis or Crohn’s disease before it is most important to consult your doctor to get an accurate diagnosis without delay. Why have I developed proctitis? Like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, proctitis is associated with a complex array of faulty genes which causes the immune system inside the lining of the rectum to become very sensitive to the bugs in the faeces, leading to inflammation. There
Wind Other symptoms include: Frequent or continuous sensation that you need to have a bowel movement A feeling of fullness and incomplete emptying in your rectum Frequency and urgency to the toilet 10 or more times a day, only to have a “false alarm”, pass BMW or unsatisfactory small pieces of stool. This is quite different to the bloody liquid diarrhoea suffered by patients with more widespread colitis involving the colon. There may also be symptoms quite similar to those of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): Pain with movements Rectal pain Pain on the left side of abdomen Bloating and rumbling A feeling of constipation Important factors to note are: The symptoms do not usually cause disturbance during the night The patient’s general health remains good, with no weight loss (unlike widespread ulcerative colitis) Blood tests are usually normal The presence of blood does not mean that you have bowel cancer, but if you have not been diagnosed with proctitis, colitis or Crohn’s disease before it is most important to consult your doctor to get an accurate diagnosis without delay. Why have I developed proctitis? Like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, proctitis is associated with a complex array of faulty genes which causes the immune system inside the lining of the rectum to become very sensitive to the bugs in the faeces, leading to inflammation. There
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