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I have a few questions about BAM treatment that I'm hoping for help with.
1. Timing. I recently ordered the Enterolab test to get a better hold on my already restricted diet, so it's quite possible that I am still eating things that are not helping. I got little help from pepto or budesonide, and now I'm trying pentasa. The GI has added colestipol for BAM and I have started taking 1 tab a day. Is it okay to continue to treat for BAM before I have got my diet perfectly in order? Or is it better to wait and use colestipol as a last resort if needed? I don't want to delay getting to symptom remission if I can help it.
2. If you have BAM do you need to be on BAM meds indefinitely? Or does the healing of the gut eventually eliminate the need for it?
Thanks for your help.
Ilse
Some questions about treating BAM
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Re: Some questions about treating BAM
Have you already sent your stool sample to EnteroLab, or are you still waiting to receive the sample collection kit? If you haven't already sent your sample to the lab, it would probably be better to get that done before starting to take a bile acid sequestrant. in other words, if it were me, I wouldn't change my diet or treatment right before sending EnteroLab a stool sample. It might not matter — but I'm not sure of that. If you've already sent your sample, then it shouldn't matter.
Some MC patients who have BAM seem to need to take a bile acid sequestrant indefinitely, and others are able to stop taking it after a few months or years — we're all different.
At least, that's my opinion.
Tex
Some MC patients who have BAM seem to need to take a bile acid sequestrant indefinitely, and others are able to stop taking it after a few months or years — we're all different.
At least, that's my opinion.
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.
Re: Some questions about treating BAM
I have not yet received the lab. I could stop taking the colestipol until after I send my sample. I hadn't thought of how it might interfere, especially as I have ordered the malabsorption test? I will email Enterolab and see what they think. Thanks for the thought.
Re: Some questions about treating BAM
If you stop taking the Cholestipol, it should be out of your system in roughly 24 hours or so. Much less time, if you have diarrhea. It isn't absorbed, so it passes out of the body with stool, So the timing will depend on your bowel habits.
Tex
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.