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I'm back in a solid remission. As a recap I had a 4 month WD flare last summer. I got serious on diet last August. By December I was doing pretty good but still eating a lot of protein. It took many months of eating protein, broth, a little rice, overcooked carrots bananas and avacados....meal after meal, day after day, week after week, month after month. Last summer I discontinued all oral supplements for awhile. There was no magic bullet to speed things up. I took cholestyramine for 6 weeks. It helped but caused my throat to swell. I was afraid my air passages would be blocked so I had to discontinue the cholestyramine.
After 10 months I"m finally able to tolerate something green....green beans.
I can eat a whole peeled kiwi. Yea! I can eat 5 cherries after a meal! Yea! I can eat 6 blueberries after a meal! Yea! I can eat 1/5 of an apple with peel on! Yea!
Many vegetables...even overcooked are still problematic. No worries. It will come with time. I'm thinking it may be 6-10 months before I can eat salads.
You definitely learn patience with this disease. In the meantime I'm enjoying eating peeled kiwis with my breakfasts!
You've certainly earned remission after all that dedicated effort.
Tex
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.
Great work Brandy! I have a kind of mantra. "If you want the results you have to create the causes." I think where many people get hung up is by wanting the result but not being willing or able to create the causes for it. It's one thing when you don't know what you need to do. It's another when you know what you need to do but simply find yourself unable to do it. Eating a pristine diet to promote healing takes both knowledge of what might work and then patience. IF you want the results you have to create the causes that will bring them about. You've done that, Brandy.
that is awesome Brandy, thanks for sharing and continued success , I am glad that you can now add back the blueberries into your diet, makes a really nice treat and so good for you too.. have a great day.
diagnosed with LC by biopsy
in May 2013 , supplements B complex, Vit C ,Vit D3 Zinc, with a multivitamin, and magnesium to round out the pack.
Jul 2008 took Clindamycin for a Sinus infection that forever changed my life
Dec 2014 MC Dx
Jul 15, 2015 Elimination Diet
Aug 17, 2015 Enterolab Test
Dec 2015 Reflux
Sept 2016 IC
Marcia
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