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Mia
Sorry- I'm asking something EXPLICIT
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Sorry- I'm asking something EXPLICIT
Ok- here's something else I'm worrying about- and I'm going to ask it- and I'm so sorry that it's so explicit. Over the past 5 months since my CC has worsened- I am seeing that undigested food is passing right through (sorry about this)- I'm talking an actual pea- bits of apple- a piece of red pepper. This is a new development, sesame seeds, you get the (all too explicit) picture. What's going on here? !!!
Mia
Mia
Mia,
When I have been in a flare and tried to eat veggies or fruit that wasn't cooked to mush it would pass right through me. I understand from your other posts that you don't want to go on meds, and I do understand that. I still tend to overcook my veggies. The only way I can eat an apple is applesauce. I would suggest you go on a very bland diet for several weeks to give some time for you to start healing before you add too many veggies or fruit back in.
Good luck.
Jan
When I have been in a flare and tried to eat veggies or fruit that wasn't cooked to mush it would pass right through me. I understand from your other posts that you don't want to go on meds, and I do understand that. I still tend to overcook my veggies. The only way I can eat an apple is applesauce. I would suggest you go on a very bland diet for several weeks to give some time for you to start healing before you add too many veggies or fruit back in.
Good luck.
Jan
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Mia,
You might try a low fiber diet. You can tweak it to be GF, DF, & SF if you wish to do that. It will slow down your gut. I have to be sure to chew, chew, chew and have very soft, and as Jan said overcooked veggies, very few fruits. Right now fiber is not your friend. Forget nuts and seeds for right now. My diet is so bland and limited but I am getting better. I am also on antifungal drugs but that is a whole other story.
http://www.nmh.org/nmh/pdf/pated/lowfiber-diet07.pdf
Pat
You might try a low fiber diet. You can tweak it to be GF, DF, & SF if you wish to do that. It will slow down your gut. I have to be sure to chew, chew, chew and have very soft, and as Jan said overcooked veggies, very few fruits. Right now fiber is not your friend. Forget nuts and seeds for right now. My diet is so bland and limited but I am getting better. I am also on antifungal drugs but that is a whole other story.
http://www.nmh.org/nmh/pdf/pated/lowfiber-diet07.pdf
Pat
I'm right now drinking hot water with lemon as supper. I don't want to eat because I am not looking forward to the reaction. I think I'd better prepare some food that will work for calming things down for the next few days at least. Anyone have some favorite ideas for that? Chicken broth? Apple sauce maybe?
I've been searching the web for 'left side pain', and the possibilities seem wide! I guess I'll have to wait to see my doctor. The most likely cause I've read about so far is still the CC.
Mia
I've been searching the web for 'left side pain', and the possibilities seem wide! I guess I'll have to wait to see my doctor. The most likely cause I've read about so far is still the CC.
Mia
Oh and I also leave on a trip in a couple of days- sure hope I can control things! My visions of dinners in nice restaurants seem like a no go. Eating on a trip has always been hard with this- I used to do it by following my strict regieme, and I think I'd better go back to that again.
Has anyone else made things so much better by diet, and then got 'cocky' and began eating the stuff that causes harm again, resulting in such a long and bad regression (like me)? I can't believe I've persisted in eating so many things that I shouldn't.
Has anyone else made things so much better by diet, and then got 'cocky' and began eating the stuff that causes harm again, resulting in such a long and bad regression (like me)? I can't believe I've persisted in eating so many things that I shouldn't.
Mia,
I used to eat chicken broth, or chicken soup with rice, when I was feeling really low. Almost any of us can tolerate rice, and for that matter, well-cooked potatoes should work OK, too. Apple sauce is OK for some people, but I always used to avoid it, because of the fiber content.
Pain in the lower left quadrant is often associated with diverticulitis, but if your pain is up behind a rib, that would be a little to high for diverticulitis, normally.
Eating out is pretty tricky for any of us, even when we're in remission, but if you're having a flare, it may seem like "mission impossible". I suggest you take plenty of Imodium along, or get a prescription for Lomitil, to help get you past the really bad days.
Yes, most of us slip up once in a while, and eat something we shouldn't, (usually accidentally, though a few people sometimes decide to intentionally take a chance, and eat something they know they shouldn't), but it doesn't take long to realize why we started the diet in the first place, because being sick is no fun at all.
Tex
P S Regarding your first post in this thread, yes, all of us become "bowl watchers" during flares, and the undigested pieces of food floating around, just means that you are having a fully-developed MC flare.
I used to eat chicken broth, or chicken soup with rice, when I was feeling really low. Almost any of us can tolerate rice, and for that matter, well-cooked potatoes should work OK, too. Apple sauce is OK for some people, but I always used to avoid it, because of the fiber content.
Pain in the lower left quadrant is often associated with diverticulitis, but if your pain is up behind a rib, that would be a little to high for diverticulitis, normally.
Eating out is pretty tricky for any of us, even when we're in remission, but if you're having a flare, it may seem like "mission impossible". I suggest you take plenty of Imodium along, or get a prescription for Lomitil, to help get you past the really bad days.
Yes, most of us slip up once in a while, and eat something we shouldn't, (usually accidentally, though a few people sometimes decide to intentionally take a chance, and eat something they know they shouldn't), but it doesn't take long to realize why we started the diet in the first place, because being sick is no fun at all.
Tex
P S Regarding your first post in this thread, yes, all of us become "bowl watchers" during flares, and the undigested pieces of food floating around, just means that you are having a fully-developed MC flare.
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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Hello Mia,
What you are experiencing is not unusual. I have had lettuce, peas, corn etc came out exactly as it went in. Dairy foods look like white lumps as well. I no longer eat corn & am careful about the sort and amount of salad vegs that I eat. Olives are the same.
You can be as explicit as you want here Mia. We all have had similar experiences.
Liz
What you are experiencing is not unusual. I have had lettuce, peas, corn etc came out exactly as it went in. Dairy foods look like white lumps as well. I no longer eat corn & am careful about the sort and amount of salad vegs that I eat. Olives are the same.
You can be as explicit as you want here Mia. We all have had similar experiences.
Liz
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