pain killers
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pain killers
Tex, you once mentioned taking painkillers b4 eating when you were in a flare. what did you take and did it help? do these things usually cause more damage to the gut in the long run? someone else mentioned a low inflamottory diet while healing. what does that mean? does that mean following Mrt and not eating your reactive foods. everyone also seems to mention staying off dairy but i'm on scd and the lactose free dairy is one of the few things i can eat. on mrt and enterolab i did not test as having a problem with dairy. I did test to be yellow reactive to zuchini and squash and since i can't eat potatoes and sweet potatoes on the scd there is not much left. dairy would be one of my main foods now. (the homemade yogurt mostly)
Belle
Hi Belle,
I was probably describing the way that I took Tylenol (acetaminophen), because that's the only one I ever used. Actually, I always took it with, or immediately following a meal or snack. When I took it with food, and took it before the pain reached an excruciating level, it worked well for me. If I waited until the pain was unbearable before taking it, it wasn't very effective, but sometimes taking more at the next labeled interval would help. I always used two of the maximum strength capsules or caplets, because taking less didn't seem to do much good. If you use Tylenol, be sure to avoid alcohol, in order to avoid a risk of kidney damage.
As far as I am aware, there is no known connection between acetaminophen and the inflammation that causes MC. That risk is pretty much restricted to NSAIDs. Of course, most analgesics are NSAIDs, except for acetaminophen and a few narcotioc-based painkillers.
Certain foods are generally considered to be less inflammatory than others, and various sites discuss them. For example:
http://nutrition.about.com/od/dietsform ... amfood.htm
Of course, as you are aware, for someone with a digestive system disease, there are usually additional foods to avoid, and these vary by the individual, but in general, they include the ones that you know by experience to be off limits, and the ones for which you have reliable test results that show them to be reactive for you.
Most lists of inflammatory foods include the nightshades, and while this may be important for someone with RA, for most of us with MC, at least some of the nightshades (such as potatoes) are not a problem (though they are a problem for a few of us). Most of us also do better if we avoid things such as spicy foods, because those can be inflammatory (peppers are a nightshade, as is belladonna).
If you were eating casein before you submitted the sample to EnteroLab, (and you don't have selective IgA deficiency), then a negative test should be reliable evidence that you do not produce antibodies to casein.
Tex
I was probably describing the way that I took Tylenol (acetaminophen), because that's the only one I ever used. Actually, I always took it with, or immediately following a meal or snack. When I took it with food, and took it before the pain reached an excruciating level, it worked well for me. If I waited until the pain was unbearable before taking it, it wasn't very effective, but sometimes taking more at the next labeled interval would help. I always used two of the maximum strength capsules or caplets, because taking less didn't seem to do much good. If you use Tylenol, be sure to avoid alcohol, in order to avoid a risk of kidney damage.
As far as I am aware, there is no known connection between acetaminophen and the inflammation that causes MC. That risk is pretty much restricted to NSAIDs. Of course, most analgesics are NSAIDs, except for acetaminophen and a few narcotioc-based painkillers.
Certain foods are generally considered to be less inflammatory than others, and various sites discuss them. For example:
http://nutrition.about.com/od/dietsform ... amfood.htm
Of course, as you are aware, for someone with a digestive system disease, there are usually additional foods to avoid, and these vary by the individual, but in general, they include the ones that you know by experience to be off limits, and the ones for which you have reliable test results that show them to be reactive for you.
Most lists of inflammatory foods include the nightshades, and while this may be important for someone with RA, for most of us with MC, at least some of the nightshades (such as potatoes) are not a problem (though they are a problem for a few of us). Most of us also do better if we avoid things such as spicy foods, because those can be inflammatory (peppers are a nightshade, as is belladonna).
If you were eating casein before you submitted the sample to EnteroLab, (and you don't have selective IgA deficiency), then a negative test should be reliable evidence that you do not produce antibodies to casein.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thanks,
the only problem is on the MRT test I was yellow reactive for acemetophin. Would you still recomend taking it before meals? how long was it till your intestines calmed down and the pain lessened while you cut out your intolerant foods? I have been trying with diet for 5 months now and have not gotten better. Everyone here makes it sound like going GF helped them in one minute but 5 months and counting and I see no improvement. Any ideas? I am getting desperate. I have no problem cutting out foods if I would actually find that it helps.
the only problem is on the MRT test I was yellow reactive for acemetophin. Would you still recomend taking it before meals? how long was it till your intestines calmed down and the pain lessened while you cut out your intolerant foods? I have been trying with diet for 5 months now and have not gotten better. Everyone here makes it sound like going GF helped them in one minute but 5 months and counting and I see no improvement. Any ideas? I am getting desperate. I have no problem cutting out foods if I would actually find that it helps.
Belle
It took me a year and a half to reach remission, because instead of cutting out everything that I suspected of causing problems, I cut out gluten, and then kept experimenting with other foods, removing them and adding them back in, one at a time for a year and a half. Back in those days, I had nothing to go by, because I hadn't found Sally's old board, so I was strictly on my own. My doctors insisted there was nothing wrong with me (the old, "it's all in your head routine"). It finally dawned on me that what I was doing wasn't going to work, so I cut out all of the foods that were even slightly suspicious, and within a week or two I was in remission.
It didn't take long to reach remission after I removed all the other problems, because after a year and a half of religiously following the GF diet, much of the damage to my intestines caused by gluten had healed. I continued that very restrictive diet for about a year and a half, and then I was able to add many foods back into my diet (such as fruit, vegetables, corn, sugar, etc.) I even managed to add dairy back in by building up a tolerance to it, but I recently discovered that I produce antibodies to it (even though I'm asymptomatic to it), so I've permanently removed dairy from my diet. Once your gut has a chance to heal, it's a different world (digestion-wise).
Tex
It didn't take long to reach remission after I removed all the other problems, because after a year and a half of religiously following the GF diet, much of the damage to my intestines caused by gluten had healed. I continued that very restrictive diet for about a year and a half, and then I was able to add many foods back into my diet (such as fruit, vegetables, corn, sugar, etc.) I even managed to add dairy back in by building up a tolerance to it, but I recently discovered that I produce antibodies to it (even though I'm asymptomatic to it), so I've permanently removed dairy from my diet. Once your gut has a chance to heal, it's a different world (digestion-wise).
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Belle,
I was in a 10 month flare and until this day I do not know how I functioned. I am on Entocort and that has helped, but to achieve the next level of not being afraid of what will happen next was the diet since January. The diet is helping the colon to heal. It is not completely healed yet; but an 80% improvement to where I was. I suggest keep it simple for the diet until you can figure it out. I sometimes I drive myself nuts because everyday is a new adventure. Just when you think you are home free something upset the colon. Because of this website the suggestions have helped me and it took time to realize it.
Hope you feel better soon.
I was in a 10 month flare and until this day I do not know how I functioned. I am on Entocort and that has helped, but to achieve the next level of not being afraid of what will happen next was the diet since January. The diet is helping the colon to heal. It is not completely healed yet; but an 80% improvement to where I was. I suggest keep it simple for the diet until you can figure it out. I sometimes I drive myself nuts because everyday is a new adventure. Just when you think you are home free something upset the colon. Because of this website the suggestions have helped me and it took time to realize it.
Hope you feel better soon.
Denise