MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

I hope this is not TMI and mostly for women.
I began to realise that because of MC I was getting too many UTIs (urinary tract infection) due to the travel of bacteria. I decided then to use a portable bidet. One upstairs and down. Guess what? Not a single UTI in a year. Probably lots of you do this ...

I have noticed that when there is a flare the worst time is in the morning after waking. In summer sadly that can happen at 5am.
Is this other people’s experience?

https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1864979229055815758?s=61
This is Owen Jones who has over a million followers.
His symptoms are treated with large doses of PPIs and codeine.
It seems no gastroscopy is done or a colonoscopy
Some of those replying seem to have been diagnosed with MC which ...

Some of us might find his journey familiar…..
Note also the overdosing on PPIs. Science writer Moises Velasquez
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/magazine/esophagitis-allergic-inflammation.html?unlocked_article_code=k06hY93lUMUUGJ8nUq56f3IxtfadLKcc0hC3FRwTGYOowNUv3-uZAPK7hjSi0wdvjLfg-1nrL6tkW8n7 ...

I can’t imagine this is good news for those with MC. The virus persists up to seven months. It makes me wonder if our MC is triggered by a virus in the first place.

https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(22)00167-2

It seems Beethoven might have had some kind of IBD.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/ ... SApp_Other

Postacute COVID-19 is Characterized by Gut Viral Antigen Persistence in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9057012/

They should be offering anti-virals to this cohort. They might work!

Eric Topol on twitter
Gastrointestinal Covid
cell.com/med/fulltext/S…
—13% of a cohort w/ mild-to-moderate Covid shed #SARSCoV2 RNA inat 4 months, 4% at 7 months
—the GI tract may be infected after the respiratory infection has cleared
@MedCellPress

I wonder what effect this will have on MC?

After eating I experience a pain just at my waistline in the left. This is very unusual as it's almost always the right side. There is gurgling there now. Do others have 'favourite' sides for pain emerge? It was frankly a bit scary.

This is an excellent and thorough article. Some of this is relevant to us. For example the results from LDN. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/maga ... fects.html

I had a nasty reaction after eating with shop-bought gravy. So I went looking. On the label was yeast extract. There was no gluten flagged in the allergens but I'm not sure now.

Thank you Tex! I get up earlier now. I guess I forget that I am in fact an animal!

Of course just approaching Christmas I have a flare of unknown origin. I noticed like always that the WD is worse in the morning. Does anyone know why this is?

Perhaps one can hope that all this research may yet yield more information about the causes and treatment for MC.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... ong-covid/