MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Leah, welcome! I am a newbie to this site myself. I started following a DF, GF diet after two years of pain, medication, and feeling awful. I am feeling a lot better. The advice on this site is fantastic. I have way longer stretches of feeling really good and am mindful that it could take a long tim...

Tex - take it easy and take good care of yourself. I hope you feel better soon.

Tex - sign me up for a copy as well! That is fantastic!

Gabby - thanks so much for the link. I have realized over the past few months that I can not tolerate chicken which is not organic... and then of course some "organic" brands still make me ill. In 2004, I went to Brazil on a cultural/professional exchange I was shown the operations of a sl...

Wow. That is such a kind offer. I called Enterolab and spoke with someone there. It is not a question of having a physician's order. They simply can not provide their service to someone in NY or MD because they can't send or receive anything to or from either state. She definitely implied that I can...

Thanks Stanz. I am going to call the lab a little later.

I just tried to order tests from Enterlab and at the end a message popped up - it seems New York State and Marland will not allow residents to order their own clinical lab tests... I have already seen 3 GI docs here and have little hope they will be willing to order. Any help would be greatly apprec...

Thanks Connie and Gabby for the welcome. This site is a real comfort for me, especially after being around medical folks who are sometimes less than compassionate. It feels horrible to write that. I love my profession, but there has been a real shift toward specialized medicine that has paralyzed th...

Do yourself a very big favor. Write everything down... your symptoms and especially your questions. Do not let any doctor leave the room without answering all of your questions. If they dismiss you and you are not satisfied with the answers, don't be afraid to say so. When we are anxious and freakin...

When I mentioned a lot of symptoms to my doc he looked at me like I had ten heads. Then I come here and find that people get sores in their mouths, joint pain, etc. I am a nurse and figured out that I should take Zantac on my own and was pleased to read here that it helps. My doc gave me Asacol and ...

Whyclef, My story sounds very similar to yours - right down to the polyp which was precancerous (mine was a very aggressive precancer). If not for the mc my doc said I would have had colon cancer by the age of 50, but it caused me to have the colonoscopies early. They missed the mc on 2 previous col...

dehydration and dry mouth can cause bad breath. It is not a far reach to believe that MC could play a role.

I am so happy to find this site. I am a 43 year-old registered nurse who has gone through a gauntlet of tests and "undiagnoses" before LC was found on my most recent colonoscopy in April of 2011. The GI immediately put me on a large dose of Asacol. It worked initially, but then I was so fa...