MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Greetings to all you wonderful people.. I was curious and can't find an answer to this question but I'm confident someone here can help. Could you please explain why/how the gut reacts with constipation instead of diarrhea as a response to an allergen? I understand the diarrhea response by the gut. ...

Hi Tex and all, I have been away healing and biding my time on my limited diet and it is working. I now take NO medication. The bonus is I have NO D! I weaned myself off cholestyramine around 5-6 months ago. I have not looked back. Every single day I am thankful I stuck to the restrictions and am no...

Hi Tex and all, I have been away healing and biding my time on my limited diet and it is working. I now take NO medication. The bonus is I have NO D! I weaned myself off cholestyramine around 5-6 months ago. I have not looked back. Every single day I am thankful I stuck to the restrictions and am no...

Hello Tex and Laine, Excuse the horribly late reply on my part as we have been traveling. Never thought there would be so many places with abominable cell coverage and nonexistent wifi but I found them! Over the past month of continued corn free diet - as far as humanly possible- my symptoms have ab...

Thank you both for your replies. I was taking cholestyramine at lunch and dinner prior to my heartburn problem. I was concerned about the corn in it, but decided I was going to test the tipping point of my corn issues - if indeed i had any. When once per day didn't make me worse, I used it twice per...

Hi Tex, I was wondering about gluten in lotions or another topical item which is are not ingested. I see it listed on products, but if it's not ingested then so what? I tried to look it up in your book but couldn't find any reference to it. Perhaps I missed it? Also, for the most part, slowly, I'm g...

Thank you Tex and Laine I am suspecting the corn is a new problem. I was eating corn a lot before this hit. But who knows. I had even eaten corn on the cob - a small serving - with no ill effects. I'm grateful for your thoughts on whether the amount could or could not be significant. I had a sense t...

Hi All, I want to run this past you so I can get some much needed feedback. I had just continued to not improve - so I went back to my base foods : Jasmine rice, gr. beef, weak tea. Basically I eliminated corn completely. Within 12 hours my trips to the bathroom were decreased and in 24 hours it was...

Thank you Laine and Tex, I'm still in a state of shock that 8 cholestyramine/ day is the magic formula for you! But I'm thrilled you found an answer for the misery! And no diet restrictions!! Now I'm awestruck!! For the last 2.5 years I've been in this battle but as i see - comparatively- that's not...

Thank you Tex, I wondered about the timing of my dad's death and if it could be affecting me more than I had thought. I was hoping I could just snap out of it, but alas that's not the case. Something interesting happened to me regarding peanuts- this happened years and years ago before any of this M...

Thank you for your replies! Yes I took and am taking cholestyramine, and it seemed to work until this last catastrophe! 8 packets a day !! I'm stunned! You are brave to try so much but it gives me some hope here. I'm going to up my dose to try to right this ship!! At this point I feel I have nothing...

Hi Everyone, I've been off recovering for several months and doing better all the time - then the wheels came off the cart and now I'm back with more questions - which I know you'll be able to help me with. At the beginning of December my dad died of Covid. I thought I was handling it okay, but mayb...

I thought I had read here in the past about the fact that avoiding a certain food for an extended time would skew the results of a the enterolab test. Which explains my reaction to soy. Really sad since soy is so prevalent in foods. I appreciate your response Rosie, thank you. Funny how hindsight is...

Tex and Brandi, Thank you for your thoughts. Concerning the soy - I am at a loss. I've tried several forms of foods which contain soy. All with the same result. Soy milk, baked crackers with soy, plant based margarine substitute which "may contain soy", even olive oil which was not on the ...

Hi All, I have a couple general questions. Results of my Enterolab tests showed a score of 6 on Soy. So I mistakenly thought I could consume it without a problem. Not so. It causes the same watery D I fought so hard to get rid of. Any thoughts on why this would be true? Does anyone know if there is ...