Although I have regained the weight I lost and I am no longer having diarrhea with dehydration, I continue to be very tired. I sleep more than before and I do far less. I am in the early stages of intestinal control.
I recently reduced my Entocort to 1 pill per day with a bit of difficulty including a bit more intestinal sensitivity and an adjustment period for the rest of my body that included irritability and a migraine. I am adding foods as my gut will allow. Is it typical to continue to have such low energy at this stage? My doctor said that it isn't and ran some blood tests that came back normal.
Thanks.
Exhaustion
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Yes, it usually takes a long time for energy levels to return to normal (typically a year or two after recovery first begins). Energy levels return as healing progresses to the later stages. Many doctors mistakenly believe that the gut can heal rather quickly (in a matter of weeks to months), but research shows that the process actually takes several years to accomplish, for most of us.
Kids heal relatively quickly, and even older teenagers tend to heal completely within a year or two. Adults take much longer, because as we age, healing takes longer. Most adults require 3 to 5 years for complete intestinal healing, and some of us who have extensive damage that was accrued over many years, never heal completely. Until the damage is mostly healed, we tend to remain low on energy, because the healing process consumes the lion's share of our available energy, 24X7.
Tex
Kids heal relatively quickly, and even older teenagers tend to heal completely within a year or two. Adults take much longer, because as we age, healing takes longer. Most adults require 3 to 5 years for complete intestinal healing, and some of us who have extensive damage that was accrued over many years, never heal completely. Until the damage is mostly healed, we tend to remain low on energy, because the healing process consumes the lion's share of our available energy, 24X7.
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.