MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Maybe, if you're still having symptoms after carefully following the diet for a long time (such as a year or more).

Tex

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your mother-in-law and your sister. The stress you are under probably triggered the shingles eruption. The loss of your sister may have triggered the development of microscopic colitis. Why? Because stress weakens the immune system and causes inflammation, and tha...

I am probably one of few microscopic colitis patients who can eat gluten, but after 5 weeks of going gluten free and not getting better, Trust me, there are no exceptions. If you didn't see any improvement when you changed your diet, you either didn't stick with the changes near long enough, or you...

Thanks, I appreciate your feedback, and your kind words.

Tex

Is this a correct interpretation? Yes. Additionally, I understand that MC (Microscopic Colitis) is unrelated to the small intestine, correct? My enterography report came back normal with no abnormalities noted. That's what most gastroenterologists believe, because that's the way MC was originally d...

Hi Joan, Welcome to the group. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. So... my questions: 1) Is it common for for MC to cause a lot of gas? 2) is it possible (or common) to have BOTH MC and SIBO at the same time? MC itself doesn't create gas, but the incomplete digestion that the inflammat...

You're not the first person I've seen complain about zucchini causing digestive system problems. It can sometimes contain toxic cucurbitacins (presumably under certain growing conditions) that can cause problems, especially for some people. So you might be right, that the problem is not just your im...

That sometimes happens, but I have a hunch that more often than not the numbness and other neurological issues that accompany gluten sensitivity are caused by magnesium deficiency, due to to untreated gluten sensitivity. You won't to find much information on that in the medical literature, simply be...

As I recall, the information that comes with the test results from EnteroLab points out that the test results for the 11 other antigenic foods are not chiseled in stone. There are a few of us who can tolerate some of the items that show that they cause our immune system to produce antibodies. And in...

To treat thrush, you need to minimize carbs, including all sugars. To treat the other symptoms you named, I000 to 2000 mg of vitamin C is the normal recommendation, and that would probably work for vitamin B-12, also. As long as your kidneys are functioning properly there's no upper tolerance limit ...

As long as you're having Norman's, why would you want to rock the boat by making changes? On the other hand if you begin to have symptoms, you might need to cut out rice, based on your test results. It's possible you might be able to eat rice on a rotational basis, once every three days, but if you ...

Those symptoms aren't unique. They're actually rather common with MC. My arthritis symptoms were so bad before I was able to make all the correct diet changes that all but one of the fingers of my right hand grew crooked and twisted. My fingers, elbows, knees, lower back were usually so inflamed tha...

Yes, any bile acid sequestrant should be taken several hours apart from meals unless you're trying to lower your cholesterol level. It shouldn't cause any major problems if taken too close to meals, except that it Will also tend to sequester fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K) and folic a...

I don't know how to answer your question, because we determine the proper dose of cholestyramine by increasing the dose every couple of weeks until we find a dose that's effective, yet not constipating.This usually works if we tolerate the cholestyramine well. If we don't tolerate a drug well, then ...

Budesonide usually brings results quickly. Published research shows that over 80% of MC patients who respond to budesonide relapse after the treatment is ended. You can prevent that relapse by beginning an elimination diet when you begin the budesonide treatment, and if you slowly wean off the budes...