MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

welcome I arrived here 2 years ago. Thanks to Tex's positivity I have managed without steroids. I have cut out gluten, lactose, soya, rice, salads and acid. I cannot drink any alcohol other than good low sulphite wine. I have put back the 28 llbs I lost and have to pace myself energ y wise otherwise...

I am losing my hair and my nails are flaking AND my toes go yellow when I get in the bath!!! TEX can you give me a link to your book on Vitamin D please. People have told me to take Biotin and Zinc for my flaking nails and hair loss....could it be the vitamin D? I have maybe asked you this before......

Thank you Tex. This is exactly what feels right. Strangely enough I can accept the fact - it is those around me who wish to 'fix' me. Thank you for being there....I am not sure what I would have done without you these last few difficult months. Wishing you the most amazing Christmas and every succes...

Hello. I am now four months without D. I still cannot eat gluten, soya, fruit, lactose or anything cold (salads etc). My consultant advises I take 1mg of above 2 x daily. I am not sure. He says it might accelerate healing. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks

Oh but who else but the amazing people on this site would understand our preoccupation with poo colour, texture, size, shape etc. When I was really ill with the big d all day and night I would dream and visualise going to the loo and producing a perfect poo. The day it happened I was euphoric. Good ...

Hello I am, thankfully, in remission due to dietary advice received from you all. I tried marmalade today for the first time for months (rather than, stupidly, lactose free cheese which has now become my breakfast norm) and although it was only a scraping I have had a set back. I just wonder WHY thi...

This is my life saver. 2 cups buckwheat flour. 1/2 cup of olive oil. 3 tbspns cider vinegar and 1 1/2 cups water. Mix all together with salt and pepper. Place in oven for 30 mins on 200. I love it and keep some in my handbag for when I am starving. I even took it on holiday with me to eat on the pla...

Just to say that the D didn't slow down for me until I cut RICE out of my diet....something I was eating lots of as I assumed it was okay. I had already cut out gluten, soya, dairy and fructose....and the loo visits had slowed down....but as soon as I cut out rice I turned the corner. Still haven't ...

Welcome to this amazing forum. I cannot advise you, strongly, enough, to listen to the words/experience of people here. 6 weeks ago I couldn't have imagined I would have been in this place. After 6 months of chronic D - up to 30 times a day and losing 28 lbs I felt so weak that I was beginning to ge...

the nausea on top of everything else must be a challenge Robin, sorry to hear that. Can you eat buckwheat? What about gluten free flour? I virtually lived on pancakes made with almond milk, gluten free flour added to chopped, fried bacon initially. Then I discovered I can eat buckwheat flour too. I ...

Hi peeps. I have been big D free for one month now due, I am certain, to adhering to strict diet. I have started to introduce the odd new ingredient onto my platter - gluten free bread and custard powder for example. Although there hasn't been any dramatic stomach issues I have noticed a sweeping, o...

I am also newly diagnosed Treese. Thanks to finding this forum very early I believe it has changed the course of my illness. When I was at my lowest after 4 months of sitting on the loo (30 times day and night sometimes). Tex and others on the forum convinced me that I could heal through diet. I hav...

I keep on thanking you here.....but I cannot thank you too many times. I feel absolutely blessed for your advice on diet. I cannot imagine where I would now be without it. I know this isn't the end of the road - but after 4 months of hell....which I thought might last forever I have been diagnosed w...

Thanks Tex - really helpful. I have actually just started to eat lactose free cheese....possibly too much. I will gradually start to introduce more gentle fibres now.
J

Hello Peeps. I have not been diagnosed with MC yet - although everything points to this and this forum and Tex's book kept me sane (whatever the doc eventually says). 3 weeks ago the idea of constipation seemed like a dream!! I'd had chronic diarrohea for over 4 months and was feeling dreadful. Afte...