MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

When I am not doing well, I find I can't eat because of the nausea, can't eat, and aren't interested. Going without for 12-24 hours doesn't seem to leave me hungry, just tired. I do have tea, and try to have some rice crackers if I can. Plus bananas mashed up for the potassium. It can take me ages (...

I too had some problems with makeup and creams, so much so that I now wear very little makeup. I tried argan poducts and they have been very good, no problems at all, and even had compliments that my skin looks and feels good. I bought argan oil, argan face cream, and body lotion, all very good. Not...

Hi Farren, Greetings from Stratford ON! (was Markham ON until a few months ago) I too think I've have had MC (LC) for many years, but blamed it on the food, nerves, stress, anything but a disease. Gradually my range of foods got smaller and smaller as I cut out things that seemed to give me bellyach...

Rich, I have a MacBook and last year I bought an iPad, and absolutely love it. My MacBook was't that heavy but I wanted something lighter I could put in my purse. I use it for word documents; excel spreadsheets; email; web browsing (I am typing on it now); accessing financial and banking stuff; read...

Hi Theresa, I have a similar list of problem foods to you except I can tolerate eggs. Everything I cook and eat is GF and DF. Someone recently brought my attention to a magazine called LIVING WITHOUT - they bought me the holiday guide. There's a website http://www.livingwithout.com/ and you can find...

I got a much needed shot of relief from the terrors of eating out GF and DF yesterday. As you all know, eating out is stressful, full of worries about what they'll do to me, so much so that we rarely eat out, and when we do, it's quite the production, not to mention that there's never any choice for...

So Tex, as a Canadian, I could send our "flower banker" a Canadian cheque?

Plse send me the address so I can donate.

When I live in the UK there was a granular drink called MILO.... it was like Ovaltine or beige cocoa. Maybe it's that sprinkled on?

well, I'm another one! Obsessed with order and tidiness. MC has had its effect - I don't clean as much, don't put everything away as soon as someone's handled it, and no longer organise, reorganise then re-reorganise the closet. I still have a lot of perfectionist habits .. way too many ... but I'm ...

Hi Mia, I am Canadian too and take Pentasa, another form of the drug that is also supplied as Asacol. Pentasa is gf and drug plans, if you have one, cover it. If you end up with Pentasa tablets, it's likely to be the 500mg flecked tablets. I began on 8 a day but am now on 4 a day (over one year). Th...

Thanks Tex! I'll have a drink this weekend and see how I do.

I'm not really a drinker and my only tipple before my MC Dx was the occasional rye whiskey with some ginger ale added. Does anyone know if it'd be ok to resume having the odd one? This was on a celiac site: distilled alcoholic beverages such as gin, vodka, scotch whisky and rye whiskey are made from...

Tex, thanks for reminding us of our crockpots! I got one last year and am slowly ramping up with it. I made a very good mild coconut curry in it recently. Got it together in the morning, went out to an afternoon concert, came back to yummy dinner. Here's a site I have found useful. It's not gf or an...

Olivia, run, don't walk, to the doctor and get this checked. With luck it'll just be hemorrhoids. Blood in the stool is always something to check out. C Diff is highly infectious and can be dangerous, so plse get it ruled out. I did this test twice when I first fell ill as I was caring for my MIL wh...

Linda, I had called them and they said any supplement taken as an oil eg my fish oil supplements. Not sure of the person's name who told me this.

Watch out for the cost of mailing the package - I used Fedex and they charged me $90 and change for overnight delivery across the border. Ouch.