MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Sigh. All I can think is that as there are more and more of us diagnosed and they have to deal with our chronic complaints of D, cramping, rib pain—or pain all over, fatigue, etc. etc. the gastroenterologists of the world are going to have to get better at thinking! They will be forced to think abou...

I just have to share what my gastroenterologist had the audacity to suggest. I wanted to slap him. I have come out of remission after 6 years. I was able to take Pepto intially the first time around with this and did Enterolabs to find out what sensitivities I had. I went to a wonderful gastroentero...

Thanks, Tex. I suppose that it is probably not a coincidence that my dry eye and eczema in ears and on eyelids is also in full roar. I see the dermatologist this week. She, my primary care doctor, and my ophthalmologist have long thought that my skin and eye problems are directly correlated with my ...

AAARRRGGGHHH! I am not happy to be here, not that I haven’t missed you all, but I was a pretty regular visitor for a year and a half while I got my diarrhea under control. And, miraculously, I DID get it under control. I switched primary care providers when the one I had told me that MC was “a one t...

I'm ashamed to admit that I used to give it as a gift as well, but stopped when my father (one of the gift recipients) accepted EVERYTHING he read in it as the gospel truth and (the start of his dementia) started thinking that if he did not eat exactly as that newsletter said, he would die a slow an...

Was the title of the article I read in my new June issue of Nutrition Action Healthletter, a publication by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. In the article it talks about how nuts Dr. Oz's statement that "the major signs of gluten sensitivity is weight gain. When you have gluten s...

On May 26th, Jane Brody had this article in the NYTimes: http://nyt.ms/1mq9T55. She talks exclusively about Crohn's and UC, but the gastroenterologist she quotes talks about the importance of d-i-e-t!!!!!! Yes, he believes that diet is very important to treatment of any IBD. He is in North Carolina-...

Yoga Girl-- I do not have anything to add. Wonderful folks giving wonderful information from their experiences. I am wondering WHERE in Michigan you live? There are three of us on the board who are from Kalamazoo. It would be interesting to know where you have found your gastroenterologist and your ...

A great sigh of relief! Thank God it was caught early. Protocols in the last 10 years have changed so much and are so much easier than they used to be, that compared to a lot of things you have already been thru, this should be a "walk in the park". Take care of yourself and get as much re...

What a lot of malarkey or gobbledygook, as my Irish forebearers would have said, as a polite way of saying something less politically correct! That makes absolutely no sense at all! Sounds more like they are trying homeopathy on unsuspectng people than anything else. that won't work in our case!

Linda-- In answer to your question about how I am doing--I am doing pretty well. I have been lucky not to have too many things that I react to strongly. I cannot eat eggs, tree nuts (including coconut and any derivatives like coconut oil even on my skin), sugar is hard to process so if I have to swe...

That was fascinating, Linda. Thanks for sharing it.

Thank God, no one has ever suggested that I take any kind of a steroid for my gut issues. I have been on high doses of prednisone in the past for limited amounts of time after suffering anaphylaxis and some asthmatic reactions. EVERY time (even at 10 years old) I suffered from horrible "indiges...

Nancy is so right! I went back yesterday to read my first post on this forum and was suddenly transported to the feelings of panic, fear, and frustration I had in January of 2013. It takes awhile to figure it out, but eventually we all do, and life DOES get much simpler than it feels right now. I fe...

I think that eating is such a social activity and communion for many at church is an extension of such and also considered sacred, that folks cannot wrap their brains around how foods can do damage. I have worked for at least one priest in the past who believed that a communion wafer was special eno...