Thank you for the responses. I'll try and cover them here.
As far as doctors, my surgeon took care of me for 21 years and my new doctor that I haven't seen yet is a surgeon....pretty new in practice as well so I may rethink it? I wondered if I'd be better off with a GI now. I'll consider my options and try to re-evaluate.
Also, now that I'm rethinking the last few months, when I was in the Cipro, it seemed to make my stool thicker and less bloated and emptying would be easier but nope, I haven't been back to baseline for several months....
Again, that's what's weird...now I've been chasing this without a scope due to the Dr retiring, Covid, etc...
..but it seems like now that I think about it more that even the antibiotics never got me back to baseline...just thicker stools and less gas/bloating...
And yes, I have abdominal pain. It's not constant and severe but I have tender areas if I press around on my gurgling stomach...
In fact in a few of my bad days when I felt I had to go...or else...I pressed and massaged on these tender areaa and I was able to pass stool this way...something "let loose". Does that make any sense.
I will try to get in earlier and also give my old (awesome) GI a call. He's still practicing. I used him with my UC before my surgeries and for whatever reason stuck with my surgeon afterwards but again I've been blessed with very few problems all these years.
I actually tried to contact my GI with a phone call and left a pretty lengthy voice mail describing my issues and never did receive a call back.....that's when I called my retired surgeons number and she talked with a new doctor and he has prescribed Cipro twice and I currently have Mesalamine Suppositories and an upcoming scope.......April 27th
Thanks for the updates...one last thing...my consistency keeps changing somewhat but for a couple of days my output was pure liquid...like water but it didn't make emptying any easier...if that means anything...
And I've always taken 2-4 Imodium a day but have cut down during this as I thought I was constipated somehow originally but I don't think that is the case....
I'm leaning towards blockage of some sort, hopefully I can manage this until my scope date if nothing earlier comes up...