MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Thanks, Tex. I agree. With all the seriousness and frustrations that come with food sensitivities, it's nice to see that there are those looking to find the silver lining. I forgot to mention that if anyone is interested in Turtle Mountain frozen desserts, there is a $1 off coupon on the site. Have ...

I love Turtle Mountain's Coconut Milk ice creams (GF/SF/EF/DF) and saw this petition on their site that I thought I'd share. It is for fun but it's to recognize those of us who can't take part in National Ice Cream Day (I didn't even know it existed). "Designate National Dairy-Free Ice Cream Da...

Food Should Taste Good does sell their multigrain chip in a great big bag at Costco BUT is has soy (which isn't a problem for everyone). Most of their other chips are soyfree. Oh, the irony in life. But, here in Los Angeles I find their varities at Whole Foods and supermarket chain Ralphs (Krogers o...

I've used Earth Balance for years due to dairy intolerance and now with the GF/EF/SF it was a wonderful surprise to find Earth Balance sans soy at Whole Foods. It's funny the little things that make your day :) A friend w/o food sensitivities told me about LARA Bars (they have nuts) which are fabulo...

Tri-cyclic antidepressants such as Elavil and Doxepin are not SSRIs like Paxil. The research that he shared on my last visit (and I will try to get something to share) is that low dose tri-cyc's, drugs that came decades before Paxil, help with neuro-modulation in the brain/gut axis. The dosage is at...

Tex, He certainly doesn't think I am cured but I only began seeing him this last month, already a few weeks into the Entocort. Asacol didn't interest him but low dose tricyclic antidepressants seem to him a more promising possibility. While I have no reason yet to think he's better than most, I have...

Entocort is nonsystemic, unlike many other steroids, and so I believe this is why it is safe to simply end a treatment period as opposed to taper off (perhaps not after long term treatment).I am also concerned about the vision issue, which if connected I am told would mean he'd have me stop immediat...

I end a six week 9mg/day course of Entocort tomorrow. javascript:emoticon(':eek:')It was my first and made some great improvements (hardly perfect but positive). That said, I also found myself with occasional nausea and I am having a vision issue that has only arisen in this period (as a photographe...

Apologies if I missed a thread on the subject but I saw a new GI last week, and though one visit is hardly enough to make an opinion of a doctor, I was very happy to see he was so aware of MC. Also, upon viewing my Entero results (for which a response of good or bad I was prepared for) his reaction ...

Here in Los Angeles we have VONS supermarkets which are also part of the SAFEWAY supermarket chain. I can't be sure how far spread these grocers are but at VONS I have purchased Safeway brand Chocolate Sorbet w/ following ingredients: Filtered Water, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Lowfat Cocoa and Cocoa process...

Professor and journalist Michael Pollan believes anything with more than five ingredients should be passed up. I also love his suggestion that you should never purchase anything your grandmother (or great grandmother depending on generation) would not recognize in the grocery store. I read this when...

Gloria, I am unsure about the flours and would probably check with celiac.com. Babycakes is vegan so eggs aren't an issue. 75% of her recipes are gluten free the other 25% have spelt. Her brownie bites were featured in Food & Wine magazine http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/brownie-bites. Here a...

It's only due to my own frustration that I wonder why 18 years later, in 1998, a GI so stumped by his patients IBS-D and subsequent emergency cholestectomy could have not have begun to hypothesize? Literature had been out there almost 2 decades. It's all in the past now, but don't you find it both r...

These are the things I came across that I found curious. And I coudn't believe the dates. I was born in 1978, my GI problems began in 1992, had a cholestectomy in 1998, MC dx in 2009. When "mainstream medicine" questions Dr. Fine, I would really like someone to review my medical records an...

I plan to start playing with this over the weekend (need to pick up one thing I'm missing and that's garbanzo-fava bean flour, oh and I need to get gluten free vanilla and baking powder but otherwise my GF/SF/EF/DF larder is stocked). I live in Los Angeles and spend a good deal of time in NY but had...