MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Your description does sound exactly like what I'm experiencing, John. Even down to the fact that some of the worst itchy bumps are along my scalp! It's odd that the itching doesn't bother me during the day, but flares up during the night. I love to sleep warm,.with a big down blanket and a layer of ...

Thank you! I have already eliminated the shellfish and chocolate (maybe 10 days ago) and I don't drink coffee, tea or soft drinks at all. The odd thing is that the rash is my only symptom; I have no respiratory allergic symptoms like stuffy or runny nose, congestion, headaches, fatigue, etc. So perh...

Thanks to your advice I'm continuing to stay the course and have not attempted to reintroduce any foods. I'm now taking one budesonide (3mg) once every 4th day and still having excellent stools. However, I'm increasingly bothered by rashes that seem to crop up about the time I go to bed! They are on...

Yes, it helps a lot! I'll just keep th8s and not worry about returning it and getting another. Thank you... I'm going to start reading it right after my duck dinner tonight!

Hello! Tex, I am posting this under the forum section about your books,.hoping that you can help my confusion! I just ordered your book "Microscopic Colitis" through a seller on Alibris, and I ordered a copy that said "revised version" on the cover. (The cover was mostly blue, a ...

Thank you so much! I know it's a tough question because I see how different everyone here is, in their responses to different triggers, but it's really helpful to have this general guidance. I'm going to wait until I'm done with the budesonide in early March. If I can maintain good BMs without it, I...

Oh, thank you so much, Tex, tat's GREAT information about the shellfish! I didn't know that, and it definitely explains why it seemed that I was ok with chocolate in small quantities and other times I thought I was reacting to it! Of course... it is probably the days that I have shellfish that make ...

Thanks to advice I got on this forum, I am doing very well on my phase one diet. I’ve been tapering down the budesonide – now taking 3mg every 3rd day. I’ve had wonderfully normal stools every day (often twice a day), since December 2nd. I have two questions, maybe three! First of all, I occasionall...

I should have explained that better! After I had to drink the lactulose for that SIBO test, I had LD with gas and incontinence that lasted about 2 weeks and nothing I could do would control it (I was eating only rice and chicken, which I now know are both problems). To get it stopped,.my doctor sugg...

Thank you SO MUCH, Tex, for that link to the newsletter, and for your patient reply! The newsletter explained the concept that there isn't any "middle ground" in these food sensitivities... that I will certainly need to eliminate everything that I'm reacting to even slightly, in order to ...

Thank you SO MUCH, Texas, for that link to the newsletter, and for your patient reply! The newsletter explained the concept that there isn't any "middle ground" in these food sensitivities... that I will certainly need to eliminate everything that I'm reacting to even slightly, in order to...

Hello, fellow MC-ers! I got my long-awaited Enterolab results today. Since I found this forum 4 -5 weeks ago, I’ve pretty much limited my diet to white rice, chicken, beef, sweet potato, bacon, eggs, rice chex,, almond and coconut milks, and collagen powder made from grass-fed beef. My results on th...

Thank you! I think that does make sense... even at 6 mg budesonide I was probably getting less than 1mg systemically... not enough risk to the shingles healing to outweigh the benefits of calming the MC. I am waiting for my enterolab results and reading (over and over) the posts about phase 1 and 2 ...

Thank you so much! It's wonderful to have this resource and your years of experience! As you suggested, I did delay my SIBO test until yesterday after I did the Enterolab testing on Monday. (I just sent them both in today.) Over the weekend, however, I began to be constipated. I'd been on the stage ...

Hi, I'm new to the forum and the advice here has already helped enough (diet, phase1) that my 6-week "run" of LD has been stopped. I'm very thankful and have spent many hours reading the advice here, but I've got a bunch of questions specific to my history. Prior to my CC diagnosis this su...