What I'm seeing is that many of us have in common intolerance to gluten, dairy, and soy and some of us have a longer list. I am finding that I'm able to eat some fruits, particularly canned because they are cooked, some well cooked veggies, and some chickpea flour. What I am NOT able to tolerate is a lot of the above in any combination. If I have one serving of cooked fruit with lunch and one small serving of veggies with dinner, then I should not have chickpea bread or more servings of fruits and veggies. Millet bread is fine but if I eat chickpea bread, I need to be careful with my fruits and veggies and not eat the bread too often - maybe two slices every other day or every third day.
What I want to share is that I don't get sick from these foods in controlled amounts but if I have too much I will get D.
Each reduction in Entocort is a new learning experience where I re-learn the careful balance of eating without D.
I have been at 3 mg for about a month now with just a few glitches of overdoing the foods I must limit.
Food Intolerance VS Overdoing
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Hi DJ,
The difference is that we produce antibodies to gluten, dairy, soy, etc. (IOW, these are true food sensitivities), so that even trace amounts of those foods will trigger a reaction, and they probably always will, for the rest of our life. By contrast, most of the other foods are simply irritants (usually due to either the fiber or sugar content, or both), so that these foods tend to have a dose-dependent effect. Spicy (especially hot) foods also fall into this category for most of us.
If our gut were not already inflamed and in a hyper-sensitive state, these food irritants probably would not be a significant problem for most of us. And as a result, most of us are able to add many of these foods back into our diet, after we have been in remission long enough to allow for significant healing.
Tex
The difference is that we produce antibodies to gluten, dairy, soy, etc. (IOW, these are true food sensitivities), so that even trace amounts of those foods will trigger a reaction, and they probably always will, for the rest of our life. By contrast, most of the other foods are simply irritants (usually due to either the fiber or sugar content, or both), so that these foods tend to have a dose-dependent effect. Spicy (especially hot) foods also fall into this category for most of us.
If our gut were not already inflamed and in a hyper-sensitive state, these food irritants probably would not be a significant problem for most of us. And as a result, most of us are able to add many of these foods back into our diet, after we have been in remission long enough to allow for significant healing.
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.
Over the long haul, I believe that most of us have those foods we can eat small amounts of. However, I must tell you that chickpeas are in the soy family and you COULD be producing antibodies to them. Responding to Too much fruit is probably fructose malabsorption. I suffer from that.
Glad you are getting a grasp of how to manage all of this :)
Leah
Glad you are getting a grasp of how to manage all of this :)
Leah
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DJ
long before my MC dx, meals with small amount of ingredients settled far better.
Another friend of mine with digestion issues (villi damage from gluten and dairy, not MC) also feels much better when her meals have small amount of ingredients (and well cooked)
To optimise energy and keep inflammation to a minimum, most of my meals are 'mashed' well cooked veges, or a slow cooked stew where the veges have broken down and are part of liquid of the stew.
I also have my main meal during the day, and eat smaller servings at night.
long before my MC dx, meals with small amount of ingredients settled far better.
Another friend of mine with digestion issues (villi damage from gluten and dairy, not MC) also feels much better when her meals have small amount of ingredients (and well cooked)
To optimise energy and keep inflammation to a minimum, most of my meals are 'mashed' well cooked veges, or a slow cooked stew where the veges have broken down and are part of liquid of the stew.
I also have my main meal during the day, and eat smaller servings at night.
Gabes Ryan
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I'm getting better at this a little at a time thanks to all of you!!
Haha, thanks for sharing your no-food-the-house foods. Isn't it rotten what we choose when there's nothing around? Mine are Lara bars, pb, and corn tortilla chips. The Lara bars are supposed to be for my sweet tooth, not a staple of my diet. PB I should just not eat. The corn tortilla chips just have no nutritional value.
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"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail.
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2007 CC
2013 thyroid cancer- total thyroidectomy
2013 Hashimoto's - numbers always "normal"
2017 Lyme's Disease
Hi DJ, To elaborate on what Leah said, since chickpeas are related to soy you may want to drop the chickpea bread for a couple of weeks and see if you feel an improvement. You may have more tolerance for the other foods and it's the chickpea bread that is aggravating things.
Sounds like you are doing good detective work and that makes all the difference.
Carol
Sounds like you are doing good detective work and that makes all the difference.
Carol
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Hi Lori,lorimoose wrote:Have a great trip DJ! What is in your box?
Lori
My box contained GF Rice Krispies, 2 loaves of millet bread, canned fruit, apple juice, water bottles, corn pasta, pasta sauce, rice milk, and canned coconut milk. As always, I ate lots of meat. One of my hotels had a breakfast buffet. The only thing I could eat from the hotel was bacon so I hoarded that
I also had the opportunity to eat out twice with outstanding results. In one restaurant I found a boiled corned beef dinner. I first questioned the staff as police would question murder suspects then had a great meal with no problems. On my trip home, I brought my own bread to a restaurant and had a big hamburger with a baked sweet potato. Again, no problem.-
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Chickpeas? Wow, you're brave! They are just as bad as all the other legumes. Ditch them.
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Gabes - your comment is interesting i.e. having fewer ingredients! In a sense it is a case of going back to good old fashioned simple but nutritious cooking. I for one am loving preparing my own food and I have become a genius at soups which is a great way to get veggies. I prefer smooth soups so everything is well cooked and whizzed!
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