MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

I'm curious to learn about everyone's sleep patterns and quality. Please select the answer the best suits you and elaborate in the comments if you can!

Hey potty people, Curious if we have an official guide on what tests to have done across the board. There's an emphasis on which enterolab tests to get, but I would love an official starting guide on what to demand -- *cough* request politely *cough* -- from our doctors as well. Things I've seen dis...

Hi everyone, I have been taking cholestyramine and it helps me a lot. I really wanted to go the purely diet route to attack the root cause, but doing that for month or two showed no improvement. I understand that isn't nearly long enough, but if I can remove the pain and desperate urgency from my da...

Is it possible to make a theories thread, or would it get too wild? One of the things I wonder a lot about are hormones. I find it interesting that historically this was a disease that affected menopausal women, obviously a time of changing hormones. We in this group know that's not the only group a...

Is anyone else deficient in Vitamin K? I just got a message from my doctor saying I need a supplement because i'm deficient. (Explains the chronic nose bleeds I have and the constant bruising on my legs). Given MC absorption issues, is there a form that is most easily absorbed? I that read injectabl...

Thank you for the thorough explanation, as always, Tex. It's always appreciated. I'm sure grateful I don't have a shellfish allergy. I don't believe our pans have had gluten or soy on them as we did lye baths on them before we went on this diet, but perhaps as an abundance of caution, I'll lye-bath ...

Hey Gabes, sorry just seeing your response! I haven't directly had gluten in 4 months. I have only dappled in a scant few packaged foods in that time, but all were meant to be gluten-free. That said, I also didn't know just how huge it was to avoid even the tiniest trace of gluten, so I have only ju...

Looks like i'll have to learn how to make my own then! Just ordered some mutton tallow on etsy. Tallow seems to be so effective at actually deeply moisturizing my chronically dry lips. Apparently tallow "is Latin for sebum due to the fact that tallow is nearly identical to the sebum our own ski...

I know this post is older, but wanted to share a link for tallow-based, soy-free chapstick that I love in case anyone is still looking. Ingredients are as follows: CITRUS ingredients: 100% grass-fed tallow, beeswax, organic orange essential oil, organic vanilla absolute SWEET GIRL ingredients: 100% ...

oh man, that's so sad about the salmon! i hope i can add things back in in the future, but not sure how that works yet.

Thank you Tex for the very helpful link. I'm really grateful to this group.

Hi! I have gotten my results back and was hoping to get some input. I saw in another member's results that she had the least reaction to rice, and it was mentioned she can keep eating it. Would you say that's true for me as well, or did I misinterpret that / is it better to eliminate all of these fo...

Gabes, I totally buy into the "eating like our ancestors did" thinking, too. I'm quite the mutt though so I don't know how specific I can get or if I even need to get that specific. But I'll do some research. I am VERY curious about this chiropractor thing though. My work actually has chir...

Forgot to add that I also had reintroduced coffee/dairy for the first time in 3 months as well. Anyway, yes, it's funny or maybe sad that I trust this group far more than I trust doctors these days. This disease seems to be a classic example of something you need to take into your own hands. I'm gla...

Ah, that makes so much sense. I wish doctors worked that way, or more of them wanted to break the norms and consider the whole body. Even as a layman, I'm in awe of how interconnected the human body is. I was inspired to write this post, both because of what I've seen in terms of novel protein discu...

First of all, I hope I'm not cluttering up this forum. I joined a week or so ago and I feel like I'm sharing every little thought I have now that I finally made an account. I just wanted to share something I find interesting: My cat also has IBD and has to be on steroids (prednisolone). But one of t...