MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

I’m being encouraged to get my prostate cancer treated. One option is radiation. My research indicates that radiation treatment at the prostate can negatively impact colon health. They are very close to each other in the body. Do any members of this forum have experience with this? I’m in remission ...

Marcia K wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 12:10 pm Awesome, Sandy! Thank you for sharing your success story! It is helpful to the newbies & I was always given hope when I read a post like yours!

Hang in there, Marcia. It's worth the tough lifestyle changes to feel better. Little Sandy

Gabes-Apg wrote: Thu Jun 26, 2025 5:49 pm Congratulations!!

well done on your trip and how well you managed it.
warms my heart when people are able to tame the MC demon and live life.

Thanks, Gabes. Your diet and travel advice to others was very helpful to me. Little Sandy

I was diagnosed in the fall of 2021 with Lymphocytic Collitis. To my doctor's credit he took me off a proton pump inhibitor and NSAID's. But he gave me little further advice. I stumbled around for a year or more trying to figure out how to get better and discovered the MC foundation and Wayne Persky ...

Thanks for sharing your personal experience, John. It's helpful to compare experience.

Little Sandy

Very clear answer to my question about the impact of a specific food. The understanding that fatigue is 'ever present' is an important one.

Thanks -

Little Sandy

Thanks for the reply, Tex.

Regarding the 2nd question about eliminating a food, I was trying to figure out if a specific food can have the impact that I am experiencing - i.e. a predictable energy crash during the day.

Your response makes it pretty clear that the fatigue and brain fog are part of ...

My primary remaining symptom is fatigue. It is predictable, cyclic and debilitating. I get up about 7 AM feeling reasonably well. By 10:30 or 11 AM I experience an overwhelming fatigue setting in. I feel it coming on. As a person who used to drink lots of coffee, it reminds me of a coffee crash ...

After reading through the introductory material at the MC Foundation site (especially the piece on how the diagnosis will impact my life), reviewing diet posts by a number of people on the phpBB forum and reading Mr. Persky's first book - I sucked it up and went gluten free. It is not a panacea, but ...