MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

I ended up getting the malabsorption test, and it showed everything is NORMAL.

That is a big relief. Mostly because I probably don't entirely understand how everything works - but any test that comes back normal is a little victory in my book!

Good to know about Five Guys and Outback. I've eaten at Outback since my diagnosis but not at Five Guys.

We tend to eat lunch out a lot on weekends. I've also had very good experiences with Mellow Mushroom. Their GF pizza crust is actually better than most gluten based crusts, I find.

Happy birthday, Tex! I hope you get as much as you give!

Thank you, Brandy.

It's good to know - I'm probably not ready to try it yet, but now I can come back here later and look at the options.

Thank you - I will do that.

Thanks, Gabes. A lot of information I didn't know about, especially about the organic vegetables which we buy whenever possible. Chooks - is that chickens? I bet they enjoy your goodies! I'm definitely getting grits to replace rice but I also want to try the cauliflower. I've always loved it. I hope...

Thank you both! Great ideas! Tex, all restaurants here that are open for breakfast serve grits! I never found it too interesting but it's definitely doable. I'm not from here - I'm actually from Denmark, but I've lived here long enough to appreciate the local cuisine. I seem to recall it was on most...

Thank you, Gabes.

I haven't ventured into vegetables much yet, but those are good options once I do.

I'm sure this has been covered extensively here but I'm such a dork at searching the site, so please bear with me. Since I joined the site, my dinner has almost exclusively been rice cooked in bone broth and mixed with ground pork. Now that I got my Enterolab results, rice is among the foods I'm rea...

Thank you, Gabes - that's very good information. I did not know that Vit E is soy! I don't really use make up, but lip balm, lotion, sunblock, soap, shampoos and conditioners - I am going to check carefully for ingredients. This really is a jungle. I can't imagine how sick I'd still be if it wasn't ...

Thanks again!!

I shudder to think what would have happened if I hadn't found this site and had to rely on a GI doc!

I'm very thankful for you guys.

Thanks, Tex, I really appreciate your advice.

I now got an email from Enterolab recommending that I get an intestinal fat malabsorption stool test. They can do it with the sample they have, all I have to do is pay for it...

Any thoughts on that?

Thank you, Tex.

Do I also have to completely avoid the foods under the 14 unit mean value? I have been eating some of them and I'm doing fine. But if they still do damage, I would want to avoid them of course.

I got my results today: Anti-gliadin 308 Anti-casein 25 Anti-ovalbumin 8 Anti-soy 15 Mean value 11 antigenic foods 14 No reactivity : pork, walnut, cashew 1+ oat, rice, corn, tuna, beef, chicken, almond, white potato 2+ none 3+ none Had not expected that high a value for gluten! On the other hand, I...

Thanks guys. I should have known that that was a question that had come up before. Thanks for doing the search for me, Gabes! I do consider myself in remission. My life is back to normal - except for what I can eat. And that's fine. Last weekend I had to drive 140 miles to an agility trial and I was...