MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

He took some biopsies and told me that they showed some small spots of inflammation but I was otherwise normal. They're doing the celiac bloodwork tomorrow - I ate bread from a couple of different sources yesterday so maybe something will show.

Sorry I haven't been on in a while but I've started back to school and I'm just wore out! I had a colonscopy done, and the gastroenterologist said I had IBS. However, if I eat any kind of wheat bread, my symptoms return although not as bad as that first time. They put me on fibercon for two weeks wh...

I had a mad colon and it spewed out food,
So I shoved a big cork in it and stopped it up good.
Then the doc went in and cored it out good,
Now it's all happy 'cause the poo is removed!

Are your medications helping? I'm not familiar with them - are they meant to be taken long term, or just to get you out of the woods? I'm not sure, but I think the hyocsamine or hycosamine was just to get me through that first attack. It knocks me out, so it's not a very good long-term solution. My...

I am just amazed at the caring and helpful information I've found here. Please don't EVER be afraid to bring anything up. As overwhelming as this can be, I know I still have to deal with it, so I just gotta suck it up and go on. I may just pout a wee bit before I do it. All my doctor told me initial...

Prayers for them and their family, you and yours as well.

Wow. I'm just overwhelmed at the support -I really appreciate it. I've always had digestive issues, but I have such horrid allergies I always thought the problems were from the drainage associated with the allergies. Just the idea of a gluten-free diet really depresses me, but you've made it sound s...

I had a lot of abdominal pain and watery diarrhea that would feel like battery acid at times at the first of June. My doctor sent me over to the ER for possible appendicitis - they did a contrast scan, said I had colitis, gave me hycosamine and phenergan and sent me home. I went back to see my doc w...