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Does colitis always cause rectum pain or does it come and go?

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Dr. Eric Fete answered

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Not always: Colitis can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, bloody stools and sometimes rectal pain. what other symptoms do you have? Typically it persists for period of time i.e. not intermittent.

Answered 10/13/2015

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