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Since we are all trying to achieve the perfect poop, I was wondering if anyone wants to participate in this poll of where your stool usually ranks. It is 1-7.
For the record, I started at 7 and have moved to 5-6 most days.... The graph below helps you to see where you are, and where you want to be, on the off chance you don't know...:-)
Diagnosed with Collagenous Colitis after a 2 month bout of Diarrhea. Confirmed after a biopsy during a colonoscopy.
I'm a perfect 4 and have been for some time. Keeping my fingers crossed. Last budesonide was 8/22 and 8/26. I'm on one 24 hr loratadine tablet (Claritin antihistamine) a day since 8/18.
Charlotte
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison. Ann Wigmore
I'm a 4. However, I go 3-4 times in the morning, not once. Once would be nice.
Diet is modified paleo and I'm down to 1 budesinide every other day. My diet isn't perfect and I need to do a lot better with rotation.
Sheila W
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
A person who never made a mistake never tried something new. Einstein
Well..I am a 4 and I go only once most days ( maybe 1 or 2 days a week I go twice.) But the volume seems increased from pre LC days. I guess this is the new norm. I used to tend towards C but I sure don't have that problem any more. I should be pleased. In a way it's better cause I feel pretty cleaned out most every day.
My diet is pretty good. I Am doing well enough that I don't have a lot of motivation to look for more sensitivities that may or may not be there. I avoid the big 4 categories of food but have added nightshades and raw veggies and fruits back in to my diet. Soon I may get up the nerve to see how I tolerate eggs. I would like to move towards a paleo diet and give up my rice. But I kinda need an egg here and there before I give up my starch.
Chris
Thanks gals for your input, it is hard to know sometimes where I stand in comparison with other folks here on the site.
It has been about 5months since D started and a couple of months on a decreasing dose of Entocort, starting with 6mgs and down to 3mgs.
I have tried a couple of times to do 1-0-1-0-1 etc. I have not succeeded with that yet.
I usually have only am stool, mostly 2-3 times.
I feel I am managed as well as I can be at this time. My colon is mostly calm compared to the onset of D.
I am so tired of roasted chicken though......Sheila, you said something about rotation... do you mean not eating the same foods day after day?
Diagnosed with Collagenous Colitis after a 2 month bout of Diarrhea. Confirmed after a biopsy during a colonoscopy.
Well I am a "4" about 80% of the time these days. The rest all over the chart.....and that is with 3mg enotcort every other day.
Yesterday, I went right out onto the thin ice (or was it "hot" ice)........ and had a Thai shrimp curry "tom yum kung" ....... I could not resist experiencing a lovely "blast from the past" taste..........
Well six hours later it was a "blast from the present", as in a full on "7", with some aches preceding it ..........very silly me...... I need to work out if it was a food intolerance, histamine overdose or just stupid stress I put on my delicate intestines.....or any combination of the above.
LOL. I never, in a million years, thought I'd be ranking my poop. I'm going to wait for another week or two before posting mine as I am in a transitional time (improving) and want to see where I end up.
Deb.....I'm kinda with you.......lol!!! I never thought I would either but I am happy to say that after 4 months of 7, once I started Entocort........immediate to 4 or 3 once or twice a day. Feel great!!!! I had 2 times I got glutened and had a bad day after each of those but otherwise feelin groovy!!!!
Mickey, I loved the idea of ranking our poop. It is not a question to ask in polite company and there is no other way to know how the PP people are doing. Today, unfortunately, was not a 4. I ate two things yesterday that I should not have had and my body let me know right away by waking me up at about 5 a.m. to start the poop process.
I had MRT testing and their LEAP diet is a rotation diet. You start with a very basic diet of food from your acceptable list and only eat those few foods every three days. You slowly add back other food on your acceptable list, still keeping to the 3 day rotation.
I am doing very poorly with this because there just isn't all that much I can eat, especially at breakfast. I don't like to eat a lot of the foods on the paleo diet and that makes it harder. It's a bad time to be so picky. I thought it was interesting that a number of foods that I have always disliked turned up on my yellow and red lists.
I am a widow, living alone and I would have to throw out my wonderful leftovers if I couldn't eat them for three days. As with everything else with this disease, it isn't easy.
Sheila W
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
A person who never made a mistake never tried something new. Einstein
Sheila,
Sorry you aren't feeling well today. Thanks for the info on the rotation diet, I know that I eat the same thing sometimes all week long.....and honestly, I am just sick of it at the end of the week. I will try to alternate my foods.
Today is hard, I am going out to eat for a friends birthday and it is a crap shoot.....
Diagnosed with Collagenous Colitis after a 2 month bout of Diarrhea. Confirmed after a biopsy during a colonoscopy.
5-6-7 depending on the day even with a limited diet. I'll get an almost Norman once in a while which is encouraging but frustrating. I almost thought my body wasn't capable but it's shown it can so I'm still trying to figure it out. Anyone had problems with Jenny O ground turkey? It doesn't seem to be a problem but then again if it was that obvious I would proudly be typing a 3 or 4! Also, flavored coffee? I switched to decaf months ago and determined the caffine isn't a problem so I switched back to regular because it was a pain to make two pots of coffee in the morning (one for me one for my husband). The switch didn't seem to bother me because I still had almost Normans while drinking it but I'm wondering if it's bothered anyone else. I limit myself to two cups a day with chocolate almond milk. The only other things I drink are water, rice milk, almond milk, and coconut milk.
Deb,
When I first started having all my troubles (4 months ago)I was drinking at least 2 GIANT cups up Starbucks K cups a day plus I would drink 1 maybe 2 (at the most) regular Pepsi's a day. Before I got diagnosed and was having so many problems I just cut out my coffee and pepsi completely knowing that the caffeine was probably not that good for me. I didn't know better I was just trying anything. I stayed that way until this past week and starting drinking decaf Caribou K cups and maybe 1 pepsi a day. I've had no problems with either of them. Now the only reason that I tried either is because I have been normal for the past 2 1/2 weeks since starting Entocort and I gave up Gluten a month ago. My coffee is like my security blanket! I can tell you before starting Entocort and I would have the loud awful grumbling sounds all day long and many D's a day.....I actually turned to 1 or 2 cans of 7-up a day and that also seemed to help calm my tummy and GI tract down a bit. I thought it was probably in my head because I have not seen anyone else mention anything like that here in this forum but it at least mentally made me feel better. Just letting you know my coffee habits and experiences.
FYI, back when I was still reacting, I often drank a 7-up or Sprite, because as you say, they seemed to calm things down a bit. In my case, the biggest advantage was that sometimes (not always, unfortunately), they would help me to belch, and that would reduce, and sometimes eliminate, the nausea. That was before I adopted a crash diet that eliminated, among many other foods, corn. After that, the "uncolas" and all the other mainstream soft drinks had to go, because of the HFCS. I drank water, unsweetened tea, and Virgil's Root Beer for about a year and a half or so, while my gut healed.
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.
..........very silly me...... I need to work out if it was a food intolerance, histamine overdose or just stupid stress I put on my delicate intestines.....or any combination of the above.
I'll get an almost Norman once in a while which is encouraging but frustrating. I almost thought my body wasn't capable but it's shown it can so I'm still trying to figure it out. Anyone had problems with Jenny O ground turkey? It doesn't seem to be a problem but then again if it was that obvious I would proudly be typing a 3 or 4! Also, flavored coffee? I switched to decaf months ago and determined the caffine isn't a problem so I switched back to regular because it was a pain to make two pots of coffee in the morning (one for me one for my husband). The switch didn't seem to bother me because I still had almost Normans while drinking it but I'm wondering if it's bothered anyone else. I limit myself to two cups a day with chocolate almond milk. The only other things I drink are water, rice milk, almond milk, and coconut milk.
