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I had several months of chronic D....up to 8 times/day, but no other symptoms. Went backpacking, camping etc just drank a lot of gatorade and carried toilet paper. Felt totally fiine. Was diagnosed with LC after biopsy and then started on 8/day pepto bismo which after about a month cleared up the D. I thought I was out of the woods and then a few weeks ago started waking up at night with nausea and sweating. Is worse in the morning and continues during the day at a lower level. D came back but only 1x - 3x in the morning.
I started taking pepto bismo again which seems to be keeping the nausea at bay, but is still a low level thing.
Why would the nausea suddenly start after all this time, when things had seemed to clear up with pepto bismo? And will I be on pepto bismo forever to treat the nausea?
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Hi James,
Welcome to the board. I'm trying to think back to when my symptoms began, (about 12 or 13 years ago), because I also had nausea as a symptom. As best I can recall, nausea was always a part of my symptoms, because early on, I thought that I was having relapses of the flu.
IMO, the nausea that comes with MC is usually due to gastroparesis, and theoretically, gastroparesis can develop at any stage of the disease, so it certainly might show up later, as in your case. It's an indication that the inflammation that causes MC may have progressed to your stomach. Unless you're a diabetic, it will almost certainly dissipate as you get your MC symptoms under control.
Unless you change your diet, you will probably continue to have recurrences of episodes which will have to be treated with medications. Don't expect your doctor to agree with that, however, because most GI docs still don't realize that diet has anything to do with this disease.
Most of us change our diet, to prevent the relapses from occurring. For most people, the genes that predispose to microscopic colitis, also predispose to gluten-sensitivity, so that when MC is triggered, gluten-sensitivity is triggered at the same time. In addition, most of us are also sensitive to casein, (the primary protein in all dairy products), and roughly half of us are sensitive to soy and other legumes.
If you're a diabetic, you should discuss the implications of gastroparesis with your doctor. Again, welcome aboard, and good luck with your treatment program.
Tex
Welcome to the board. I'm trying to think back to when my symptoms began, (about 12 or 13 years ago), because I also had nausea as a symptom. As best I can recall, nausea was always a part of my symptoms, because early on, I thought that I was having relapses of the flu.
IMO, the nausea that comes with MC is usually due to gastroparesis, and theoretically, gastroparesis can develop at any stage of the disease, so it certainly might show up later, as in your case. It's an indication that the inflammation that causes MC may have progressed to your stomach. Unless you're a diabetic, it will almost certainly dissipate as you get your MC symptoms under control.
Unless you change your diet, you will probably continue to have recurrences of episodes which will have to be treated with medications. Don't expect your doctor to agree with that, however, because most GI docs still don't realize that diet has anything to do with this disease.
Most of us change our diet, to prevent the relapses from occurring. For most people, the genes that predispose to microscopic colitis, also predispose to gluten-sensitivity, so that when MC is triggered, gluten-sensitivity is triggered at the same time. In addition, most of us are also sensitive to casein, (the primary protein in all dairy products), and roughly half of us are sensitive to soy and other legumes.
If you're a diabetic, you should discuss the implications of gastroparesis with your doctor. Again, welcome aboard, and good luck with your treatment program.
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.