just diagnosed with LC...help

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Little Gardener
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just diagnosed with LC...help

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I was just diagnosed today with LC and the doctor wants me to take Endocort. The doctor hasn't suggested any diet changes whatsoever except to stay gluten free as I have been Celiac for 22 years. Should I go with the medicine or try dietary changes first?
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Hi Little Gardener,

It depends on whether or not you want to take a corticosteroid. It will mask your symptoms while the diet heals your gut. If you want to reach remission ASAP, use a combination, and after your gut heals, you can maintain remission by diet alone.

Welcome to the board, and please feel free to ask anything.

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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