MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Hi,

I take 2000 mg. daily in powder form. I might try to take a little more, since about a Week after I posted, I can down with a UTI. my first in 1 1/2 years, so I’d still recommend the d-mannose daily.

Alice

Hello all, It’s been awhile since I’ve posted and I apologize. I’ve had some major changes that have kept me very busy, the most significant being buying a house and moving back to Cincinnati. Anyway, I was looking for some information about colonoscopy preps, but then I saw the discussions about d ...

Thank you, Tex. I've never tried Questran. Will give it some thought.

What's the trade name for cholestyramine? I want to determine if I have tried it by another name.

Thanks.
Alice

Thanks so much for responding, Gabes! I did look at the post with the links, but didn't see anything specifically about spinal pain, although it could have been there and I missed it. But "joint pain", as you mentioned, is in the same category. I tried taking 500 mg. M daily, but got diarr...

Hello, Has anyone had a similar experience: I started taking 400 mg. magnesium citrate daily about 2 months ago. I wasn"t expecting this to happen, but since then my chronic low back pain due to arthritis, degenerative breakdown and osteopenia has simply disappeared! Could magnesium be the reas...

I have another question: how do I determine if my magnesium level is where it should be? Blood test at doc's?

Alice

Polly and Tex,

Thanks for your responses! One of my GPs along the way told me that I didn't need calcium. This was probably about 1 1/2 years ago. I don't remember his reason for saying that.

Alice

Hi again,

Another update: I'm approaching 4 weeks on D mannose and my UTI hasn't recurred!! I'm so happy. No D either. So now I've upped my magnesium to 600 mg. daily. I'm not taking any calcium supplements. Is this the correct way to proceed re: calcium? Polly, Gabes, anyone?

Alice

To all: It's been 10 days since I finished my most recent course of antibiotics and started D mannose, and my UTI hasn't returned! I'm very happy, almost didn't say anything because I don't want to jinx it! I haven't looked into green tea yet because I want to keep the variables at a minimum so I ca...

Thanks for your reply, Polly. The urologist wants to do several tests, one invasive. This is because I always present with blood in the urine. I have a long history of UTIs with blood. In fact, it's my second symptom, after burning pain. He says the protocol when blood is present is CT scan with con...

Thanks so much! Will try.

Is that a drug or herbal? Thanks for the suggestion.

Alice

Hi Polly, You asked me to let you know how my various problems were working out. It's complicated! I was able to taper down to 10 mg. Prilosec and 150 Zantac per day. If I took 300 mg. of the Zantac and no Prilosec, my symptoms returned. Even with that dose, I sometimes get very mild symptoms. I'm c...

Correction: I meant 17 yrs.