MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Thank ALL of you so much for these helpful answers. Even after years of living with these conditions, I still have so much to learn. I forgot about the casein issue in cheese. I eliminated so many things from my diet over the past few years, and I've stubbornly hung on to cheese. I also need to chec...

Happy Friday, friends! I'm in the midst of a LC flare. One day off, one day on. Since discovering this board, I've gone mainly gluten-free but even that food is upsetting my stomach as I guess I'm in a bad place. I feel like I am chained to my bathroom. :( Soy bothers me, as does ground beef. The on...

Tex, No one ever told me about the Vitamin D connection--four doctors later, and your advice is much-needed and makes total sense! After reading everyone's experiences here, I know now which supplement I need to buy on my next outing to the store. I have trouble digesting large pills; does anyone ha...

It's just appalling to me that collectively, we've been to so many GI doctors, and we get the same run-around. It was clear to me that my GI didn't even bother reading my charts before he "checked in" to see how I am doing. He was more than happy to send me on my way with prescriptions and...

Ginny, I was taking Cymbalta for five weeks for my generalized anxiety disorder; I also have D as my primary problem with the colitis. The Cymbalta constipated me so badly that I couldn't go to the bathroom for five or six days at a time. The fallout from that was so severe that it was a succession ...

Does anyone use Avon products? Some of the skin care line is gluten free there as well, but you have to be diligent about checking it out.

Hello to both of you! Since I'm still new at figuring out my LC, I wondered what the Vitamin D is about--or how it helps to calm our symptoms? I've just seen my GI again this week and got the typical "go eat salads" and "diet doesn't affect LC" and he even said "Lymphocytic ...

I have spent most of my life with the misdiagnosis! Now, I have a GI who correctly diagnosed me with the lymphocytic colitis, but he tells me that diet "doesn't improve" the LC and that it's a TYPE OF IBS. If it weren't for this board, I would be so confused. WHY do these doctors, who get ...

I have been on the gluten-free diet for about two weeks and I'm seeing a difference in my flares, etc. I am so sad to give up cheese, though! I have soy sensitivities too, so I am hunting for rice cheese :( It's great that you are feeling so much better! It makes me feel that eventually, I'll feel b...

Great to hear--I'm going GF, SF, and egg free--trying to find out about my dairy/ casein sensitivities.

Tex-- Thank you so much for this note; I am so glad to find this site--there's a lot I need to find out and the information here is really helpful. Also, people are so supportive! It's so reassuring to find a group of people who "get it" why I'm in the bathroom for an hour at a time : / Th...

Hello there--I'm new to the site and to my LC. I was diagnosed about 5 years ago with IBS, and on 8/31 of this year I found out that I have LC. I've had problems for most of my life with my digestion and diarrhea; currently, I'm in quite a lot of pain that feels unbearable. My question concerns medi...

Hello to all on this board--my name is Jennifer and I've recently been diagnosed with LC. For most of my life, I thought I had IBS. I'm 40, and was clinically diagnosed with IBS about 5 years ago. Of late, my hair has thinned significantly, I'm beyond fatigued, and I'm sick with D so regularly that ...