MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

brandy Thanks Brandy. I am almost 70 and the idea of taking the small dose (3 mg) of budesonide for the rest of my life doesn't bother me. However having to increase it later might. If nothing else because of the expense. When I first started the Budesonide (9mg) I was eating gluten and my diarrhea...

So I posted a while back that I had resigned myself to taking 3 mg Budesonide per day for the foreseeable future because trying to reduce it always caused D but as long as I took it I was fine. When I posted that I was still avoiding gluten for the most part. Since then I started experimenting with ...

We got that behind us. Surgery was Monday. It went well. spend 2 nights in hospital. He's doing ok. Of course has pain but he says only when he moves laughs or breathes. :) Biggest problem is constipation. He hates that because he has always been so regular. Trying to avoid pain pills for that reaso...

Thanks guys. I am baffled by it also. Her mom and her granny (me) are trying to get her to see a gastro but she keeps putting it off and being 20 yrs old, we can't force her. I told her she should do the Enterolab testing but when I told her she would have to collect a stool sample and send it in sh...

So it turns out my 20 yr old grand-daughter has been having D issues for some time now. Because of me and my mc and being gluten free, her mom convinced her to try going gluten free to see if it helps. It has helped. She is not so strict that she's reading labels etc, but she avoids all obvious glut...

Thanks everyone for all this info. I will certainly remember it before I get retested. I'm suppose to go on Oct 5th but hubby's surgery is the 8th so will probably put it off unless she can get me in a week or two earlier. Its an hours drive and just think I will be too busy getting us packed up for...

Thanks all for comments and encouragement. Thanks for that prayer (I'm a firm believer in its power) and the flowers Janie! :) Brenda that's encouraging about your uncle. My husband is only 70 and not on oxygen. But his lung function is very bad and has to do 4 breathing treatments a day. I will def...

Just thought I would give an update on where I am. Not that you all are waiting with baited breath. :lol: I toyed around with trying to do every other day on budesonide or even every 3rd day, but every time I did that I went back to watery D or at least mush. I resign myself to just taking one pill ...

Janie
Thanks Janie. I appreciate hearing that. I just hate being this skinny. I'm 5'7" and 112 right now. I gained up to 114 at one point but for some reason lost those 2 lbs. But good to hear that you were able to gain your weight back and that you did it while using the coconut oil.

Thanks Gabes!

I've been reading up on all the benefits of coconut oil. I'm still using it and even taking a supplement and I think it has helped with my very dry skin. However I have been disappointed to keep reading that it helps with weight loss due to the fact that it speeds up metabolism. That's the last thin...

Thanks Tex for that explanation about the yolks. I'm glad its the yolk and not the white that I can eat. I would find straight egg whites to be pretty boring and find a couple of scrambled yolks to be quite satisfying. I have been using Bisquick's gf baking mix for pancakes and it calls for eggs. I ...

Right. Well I know I have seen Eggs labeled "free-range" so I will look for those. I do think its strange though that I can eat the yolks just fine and not the whites.

Gabes-Apg
So we should stick to organic eggs? Are all organic eggs the same are is there a brand I should look for? Or do you get yours fresh from someone?

Pam V It's interesting that you happened to post this concerning eggs just now. I just got on here in order to enter a post about eggs myself. I tested +4 for chicken eggs. I had noticed in the past - before I was tested that after eating scrambled or fried eggs for breakfast I would have a burning...