MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Tex, you are right, we all do react differently to various foods, drugs and chemicals. I totally agree that everyone, especially newbies, should try to avoid all artificial sweeteners, and I certainly am not recommending that anyone use them. Jean, congratulations on your strong willpower. Truth is,...

I agree that steering clear of anything artificial is the best way to go for all of us. But for a diabetic, there are only three options. You either abstain from all sweet-tasting foods forever, you use natural sweeteners like sugar or honey that shoot up our blood sugar, or you use an artificial sw...

I'm not trying to defend the use of artificial sweeteners, just looking for the truth. Not all research is reliable. A while back, research found that almonds lower blood sugar. But after reading how the research was done - one group of diabetics was fed only almonds, the other was fed only muffins....

I have used sucralose every day for over 4 years. Artificial sweeteners can potentially make blood sugar levels rise despite containing no calories, researchers found in human and mouse studies. Calories do not cause blood sugar to rise, carbohydrates do. They further found that they could bring the...

I eat low carb because of my Diabetes, so the flour mixtures that most of you use are too high in carbs to allow me to control my blood sugar. Low carbers often use a combination of almond flour and flaxmeal in baking. For some people (like me) flax causes terrible stomach cramps, in which case, por...

My arthritis has been giving me fits the past couple of days, plus I had to do a lot of physical labor today so I'm sore all over. I don't know what to take for pain that won't have a bad effect because of the colitis. Is it OK to take Tylenol, Ibuprofen or aspirin?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I have been taking Prednisone for 2 weeks and 3 days, with one month plus 4 days left to take it. I have heard that it is important to take antibiotics until they are gone, but it is making me extremely dizzy, and keeps getting worse. As I said in a post above, the diarreah went away during the firs...

The way I look at it, there is no need to wring our hands over the foods we can no longer eat, but there is also no need to do without comfort foods. Even people who have MC and have eliminated gluten and dairy still want to eat good tasting foods and sweet treats. There are plenty of gluten and dai...

I would like to have a couple of tests done at the Enterolab but it is cost-prohibitive for me. For sure I want to do the elimination diet to find out how different foods affect me, but still have 5 weeks of steroids to take and am not sure whether I have to wait until then or if I can start testing...

I have looked through quite a few recipes here but haven't found any that use almond flour. Is almond flour OK to use when you have colitis?

I need help with a recipe and don't know where else to post this. Because of diabetes, I eat only about 30 carbs per day, so I don't eat a lot of the things that many of you do eat. Using the substitutes suggested at this site, I believe I can revise my current bread and cake recipes, but the proble...

So it looks to me like I should cut down on fat as long as I have the inflammation, then after that clears up, I can go back to eating more fat again.

My doc didn't tell me pretty much anything. The leaflet instructions that came with the meds just said take at the same time every day, and take with food. I guess maybe I should skip my 2:45 PM dose today and take tomorrow morning instead. The reason I mentioned low fat is because other websites th...

Wow, it sounds like your choices in food are pretty much limited to fish, a few nuts and a few low carb veggies. Even if I add beef and chicken back into the mix, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to handle a diet like this. The only way I have been able to last so long on this low carb diet is bec...

I was diagnosed with Collagenous Colitis 2 weeks ago. The doc prescribed Prednisone 10 mg tablets, 4 per day for 1 week, 2 per day for 1 week, 1 per day for 1 week and 1/2 per day for 1 month. To me, 7 weeks seems like a long time to take a steroid. With the medicine, the diarrhea pretty much cleare...