Hello there,
Just looking for some advice. I have a jpouch, nearly 3 years now, and have been experiencing the following:
1) mild-moderate pain in my upper and lower abdomen
2) Frequency and the dreaded BB
3) At min. 6 episodes of bright red blood on tissue as well as in bowl over the past 18-24 hours
I have a call into my GI but this doesn't feel like pouchitis or anything. Now I am having lower left pain, which is where it always hurt before my surgeries. Any thoughts??
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My guess would be cuffitis with pouchitis. Bleeding usually means cuffitis, but all that abdominal pain points more to pouchitis. I never knew that pouchitis could cause such far reaching pain. I was sure I had a hot gallbladder! But, just bad pouchitis. A year later, I still have not shaken it.
Hope you get an answer from your doc soon.
Jan 
I have just recently after 29 years developed a different manifestation of pouchitis. i have a scope on Monday which will confirm or deny my self dx. the reason i belive it is, is because i self administered two separate courses of Flagyl and immediately my symptoms (nightly partial incontinence) cleared. my frequency didn't change, nor has my pain, so this was a wholly new manifestation for me. in fact it took me a few weeks to finally put my finger on it. my point is i think pouchitis kind of like UC, and Crohns can vary in its presentation. the bright red blood in bowel sounds disconcerting is it possible you have internal hemorrhoids?
