MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

I am not sure I did this poll. I tried CBD oil for maybe 6 months when I lived in Colorado years ago (ya know, when CO was one of like 2 states that had legal marijuana..). I wasn't looking to have it change my diarrhea, I was just hoping for better sleep and to lower my anxiety level. I don't feel ...

I do take mag glycinate daily John. Take one 120 mg pill with either 2 or 3 meals a day-just depends on if I eat lunch that day!! At work I eat so 4 days a week I get that 3rd dose-most times at home I don't eat lunch. I have tried stopping the mag a few times over the years and honestly I start ...

I take oral magnesium and Betaine HCl (stomach acid). Before I trusted my gut to oral mag, I literally slathered myself with mag oil/lotion 3x/day for quite awhile. At some point I added Betaine HCl to the mix (life was much better with cholestyramine but not great yet..) which I obviously needed ...

I personally don't use or like the word REMISSION. It makes it sound so final and certain. In my line of work, people are in REMISSION and then the cancer comes back and kills them. Sorry to be Debbie Downer here....I just say I'm controlled. Not perfect, just controlled. The amount of ...

Glad to hear things are going well. I honestly eat whatever I want anymore-and truly, adding food back into my diet was both terrifying and anxiety inducing!!! I think I "jumped the shark" at Commander's Palace in New Orleans when I added shrimp and whatever other seafood was on the table-mind you ...

Hey Barbara-

A good way to know if ANY dosage of cholestyramine is helping your cause it to just STOP IT!!! I'm a slow learner and did this twice-things definitely went downhill!! Please don't get hung up on what a normal DOSAGE is. I did. I got over that. I'm convinced I'm some sort of circus ...

I typically get what I can get checked for fat soluble vitamins yearly thru the dr's office. But here in Arizona I can get some things checked just self pay at like Quest or LabCorp-I tend to pay for that on my own once a year just to see where my D3 levels are-

Laine

I would up the amount of Cholestyramine. I also avoided ground turkey....you opposed to whole?

Laine

Hey Nan-

Actually right now it's 9 packets a day split up to 4 1/2 packets am and pm! I have no idea why I swing from 8-9 packets...like I said-maybe just going on vacation with crazy stress/travel/time zone changes/foods, etc is enough to change things! I just go with the flow-

So you only take ...

This has nothing to do with the current conversation here but as I started a thread about bile acid binder pills- I figured that I would update to say that my yearly visit to the Dr's in January-where I wanted to talk about doing a trial of Welchol-ended up with the PA shooting that down until I ...

I've not had issues with needing to get up to pee at night due to the cholestyramine and I've been taking it for 9 years now. I take it twice a day-that second time tends to be maybe an hour before bedtime. And I'm drinking probably 12 ounces of water that it's mixed in with.

As I've mentioned, I'm ...

I'll just hop in here and say that I tried a few generic brands of cholestyramine before deciding Epic (then Sandoz) was the one that worked for me. I'm sorry that I don't remember all of them other than Par and another one that started with a Z or X!!! I believe that one was from India. I hate to ...

I did Smile Direct Club late 2018 to early 2019. Had their retainers afterwards and have gone with Sporting Smiles since then (2 retainers). I don't react to gluten but they seem to be reputable and could tell you what is in their stuff...

Laine

Well, it was really easy and took the guess work out of everything-which I needed at the time. It let me make large quantities of food with very little clean up afterwards.

Broken record here.....but I DIDN'T HAVE NORMAL BM'S that quickly. I guess my GI system just reacts positively OR negatively to things at a much slower rate!!! (Cancel that..I can react negatively very quickly to things...). I don't feel like anyone has ever told me what the MAXIMUM DOSAGE OF ...