MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Welcome Tarleigh! This is an amazing source of information!!! I ended up having to do a total elimination diet (alllll the way down to chicken broth made with just chicken) and added back stuff systematically. It took some serious discipline, but I'll tell you, a couple of d accidents in public conv...

I'm 10.5 mos post diagnosis and a good portion of my life is back. I am working part time again, going to the gym 2x week and working with someone who specializes in autoimmune conditions (I had a lot of arthritis and weakness). I can stay awake almost all days, and have very little pain. Brain fog ...

Good to know!!! I have avoided taking Budesonide in hopes of managing the symptoms through diet alone, but do you think it's worth a shot to get the inflammation under control (while maintaining the diet, of course)? Interesting how much info there is about managing pancreatitis in dogs, but not so ...

Hi Tex, The only medicine I'm on is an estrogen patch, and I got that in mid November, shortly before the pains began. HRT is associated with pancreatitis (rare but happens), and I wonder if that is what triggered it, although once it's triggered, I still need the diet to settle things down. My regu...

My pancreas is acting up so I'm on a low fat, low protein diet, with multiple small meals instead of 3 normal ones. Even on my normal safe foods my d came back with a vengeance. My pancreas doesn't hurt on the diet, so that's nice, but...you know...it was nice to have the d under control for a few m...

I had a hysterectomy a month ago, and the d has REALLY REALLY dramatically improved immediately after surgery and hasn't come back! Granted, I have also been on a very restrictive diet for 3 mos now, and had significantly reduced symptoms - d only once or twice a morning and that is IT, but it was s...

And since it's not an allergy, I didn't include it on that list! I sure will from now on! They quadruple confirmed my allergy list, asked in detail about anti-nausea drugs (Phenergan vs Zofran), which narcotics (Norco / Percoset / Dilaudid), etc, and no one ever said a word about Motrin/ibuprofen. T...

Helpful hint! If you have surgery, you will need to tell the nurses EXPLICITLY not to give you ibuprofen or they will do it, and they won't necessarily TELL YOU. I just had a hysterectomy, was very careful to tell the hospital I have MC, brought my own food - they were very accommodating once I expl...

I just read today that there are now flu shots made from dog cells because they are better at growing the influenza virus and people who are sensitive to chicken and eggs can have them. Yuck though...for some reason this gives me more heebies than the chicken ones.

I emailed Enterolabs with this question and they suggested not getting the flu shot. I have only had them a few times in my life, when work required it and am happy to have a reason to refuse :-)

I was sensitive to both chicken (2+) and eggs (61) on my Enterolab results. What does this mean for the flu shot? Does that warrant refusing it?

Thank you so much for the thoughtful and thorough responses. My husband is allergic to shellfish and walnuts, and we're finding it a bit funny that shellfish seems to be one of my last remaining sources of protein since beans don't go through well, and walnuts was my least reactive of the nuts they ...

Gluten: 442 Cow Milk: 113 Chicken Egg: 61 Soy: 79 Mean of the 11 foods: 68, with beef, almond and corn in the 3+ category and oat, rice, chicken, tuna, pork, cashew, walnut and white potato in the 2+ category. Nothing in 1 or 0. 2 genes for nonceliac gluten sensitivity. So obviously gluten is off th...

Welcome to the group!!! I am SO with you on the frustration of dealing with doctors, who only offer diagnosis and no guidance. I have a crazy sense of smell too, combined with an incredibly sensitive gag reflex. Awesome combo!

Anyway, just wanted to say welcome!

Laura

Tex, you assume wrong, sadly. :-( My dr did the standard thyroid test and refused to do the full range of tests because the one test was "in the normal range." I can't order the tests for myself and have been at a loss. HOWEVER, that was before my MC diagnosis, since I just got that a few ...