Call me "Dense"..........

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:34 am

Luce, I never connected the pencil like poops with swelling. I'm refering to something you posted in another thread:
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"I really believe that the obvious swelling I was having in that area was similar to that higher up in the colon -- you know, the swelling in the lumen that gives us pencil-wide poop."
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I have those types most of the time and sometimes they are wide but thin - like a ribbon - obviously thicker than that but you get my drift. I always wondered what caused those. I imagine it's degree of swelling??

Anyway, thanks for enlightening me.

Love, Shirley

Post by **tex** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:02 pm

Hi Shirley,

The first test that I was given, at my GI's request, was a CT scan, (since he had decided that he was looking for colon cancer), and after the scans, I asked the operator if she could see the cancer they were looking for. She said that she couldn't see any cancer, but noticed that my colon walls were much thicker than they should have been, and she asked if my BMs looked like ribbons. Of course, at the time, it was hard to tell, since I was having uncontrollabe diarrhea. LOL.

If you are having ribbon-shaped BMs, that suggests that you are having an active MC episode, I would suspect.

Love,
Wayne

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:45 pm

I think you are probably right, Wayne. I had never heard anyone else refer to "ribbon poops" so I thought I'd throw it out and see if anyone else has them.

Shirley

grannyh · Post by **grannyh** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:26 pm

Both ribbon and pencil poops here most of the time. Sometimes the day starts out almost normal.. then to pencil poops, ribbon ones and D.

I have no clue what is going on in my innards these days!
grannyh