MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Thank you Tex, everything you pointed out certainly rings true.

A few years before my initial flair (in 2021) I realized that I had a problem with sugar alcohols. I would eat some manner of "sugar free" baked good and then sometime later I would have a brief stint of diarrhea. I developed a ...

Hello all,

Seems like every time I post I am warning people to read the ingredient list on products. I have been trying to find a safe toothpaste to use (been using bentonite clay and baking soda). I ended up buying a generic version of Sensodyne and, although I made sure there was no xanthum gum ...

Welcome to the forum,

Your diet looks pretty good to me. Me personally, I cannot ingest coffee, tea or shrimp because of my histamine intolerance - technically not an immune reaction but diarrhea causing none the less, as well as itchy skin.

Supplement-wise, I won't take iron supplement - it's ...

Well, good news on the Mg front.

I purchased choline (Essential Choline from Alkaline for Life) and liquid Magnesium (Liquid Magnesium with Trace Minerals from NOW Foods).

Throughout the course of a day I have been able to take totals of one and a half tsp of Choline and 3/4 tsp of the elemental ...

Hey Karen,

Yeah, that's nuts what the gastro said. I do believe that MC is considered an autoimmune disease, and since when is an autoimmune disease ever "cured". Would he say that about Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis?

Technically, he's right about salad (the leafy greens part), it can be an ...

Sarah, good to hear that you are doing better.

As far as the cholestyramine, I take one dose at night before bed - usually about four hours after my last meal. While you are eating during the day the bile in your intestine is being used, as long as you are eating the type of fat that bile acts upon ...

I've been on Betaine HCl for a week and there is a definite improvement. I'll take 2 capsules per meal (or 1 1/2 if it is a small meal). I have also tried a small amount of Magnesium Glycinate with my meal as well and so far so good.

The next thing I think I will try is Choline Citrate - it ...

Thank you, Tex and Laine,

Tex, I apologize for picking your brain on the Mg absorption issue, but is the reason that the Mg ion does not permeate very well because of its positive charge being repelled by a (possible) positive charge on our skin and/or muscle tissue? On a related question, is it ...

Hello All,

I have been pondering lately on why I cannot absorb Magnesium through my digestive tract, and I am wondering if my levels of stomach acid would help. I found lots of literature on how Mg affects stomach acid (reduces it - Tums for example) but not alot on how stomach acid affects Mg ...

I am probably posting this too soon (before this situation is resolved) but it turns out that I had quite a bit of mold in the basement that I live in. There is a crack in the basement foundation that was (is) allowing water to seep into a corner. That, along with the high humidity in the basement ...

Ingrid

Since you can't get Enterolab yet, here are the 11 antigenic foods they test for (on top of the big 4: gluten, dairy, soy, and eggs) on the A1 and C1 panels:

Beef, Chicken, Pork, Tuna

Oat, Rice, Corn

Cashew, Walnut, Almond

White Potatoe

I personally react to rice, and my Enterolab ...

Hello Sarah,

Sorry things are not getting better. I'm glad that you are going through with the Enterolabs testing - it was very helpful for me.

When I am having problems gut wise, I will slice off the fatty edges off of the lamb chops and shoulders - that seems to reduce lamb to a level of fat ...

That amount of Mg would turn me into a firehose, but that's me - I know several people on this site take 500mg a day and over with no problems.

Your food choices look pretty good (to me). The only thing I saw that would make trouble for me was the tea. I have trouble with coffee as well, but I have ...

Well Tex, your experience tosses a wrench into my zinc hypothesis. The only thing I'm speculating about is that maybe a bad reaction to lots of zinc is related to the fact the I can't take Mg orally.

I did quit on the zinc (and vitamin C, although I don't think that C was too much of a problem ...

Barbara, what are you eating besides turkey? Also, what kind of medication/supplements are you taking? Sometimes an offending substance can sneak in in places you don't suspect.

John R.