Question about possible daily enemas causing pain?
I was having bleeding/mucus for 3 months straight before I was approved to get a colonoscopy in April. I found out I had UC and my calprotectin was extremely high at 3,880
My GI gave me lialda 4 pills daily and then nightly mesalamine enemas. I have been doing this for almost a month. I have seen a definite improvement since starting. However, about a week or so ago I started noticing my very lower back (sacral, coccyx area) was aching. Like a very deep ache.
I thought it might be from sitting for long periods of time at work. When I stand I get a lot of pain there and it takes a couple minutes of walking to go away. Also, I have a lot of pain and aching in my hips too. I had a cervical, thoracic and lumbar MRI back in February. Normal besides mild spinal lumbar stenosis (I’ve never had issues with this previously and it is not the reason for MRI)
I was trying to figure out what this could be. It feels like my tailbone is trying to fall out of my butt lol.
I’m just cherry picking the likely cause. I obviously haven’t had this issue before. I was doing nightly enemas until about 4 days ago. My GI said I could go down to 3x a week now. When I insert my enema (I’m inexperienced with these) I have it pointed “up” and then squeeze. I am done within 20-30 second start to finish. I wonder if it’s caused irritation or trauma to the area? Anybody have any ideas?
Thank you for reading!