Many of you may know, I've been crawling my way toward remission, seeminly hitting more rivets than gains. But it seems I keep adding yet one more piece to this crazy puzzle of wellness. :)
One is grapes. I don't know why, but these seem to do me good. (I peel them) I had steered clear of all fruits because certain ones made me insanely ill. (Pears, watermellon...) One day, as I was making my husband's lunch, an intense craving for the grapes I was making came over me. So I peeled one and ate it. Then peeled another, and ate it. So here I was, peeling grapes and shoving them into my mouth so fast, I resembled a food eating contestant on steroids. (And I am on steroids, so ha!).
The next day, no D. Odd.
Second piece of the puzzle. I've been eating a mix of rice or potatoes with some either cauliflower, green beans, or brocoli, and some sort of meat. Most often, beef, chicken, fish, or pork.
But I've been struggling, and struggling, and struggling. Due to laziness and finances, I'll normally stick with one big pot for a week, then will make it again, maybe the same ingredients until whatever meat and veggies I bought are gone.
So, in Nov., I was on a ground beef, rice, and cauliflower kick. Made a pot of my goo, and ate it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I've pretty much always had pain and nausea, but it started getting worse. Asked my GI about it. She put me on an acid blocker. Pain got worse, sensitive to the slightest touch, then got to where it was bad enough to double me over and I started taking Tramadol, but it didn't touch it. It radiated to my back, dropped 10 pounds in a week, D not even my cocktail of meds could stop, vomitting, and ultimately dry heaves. Ended up in the ER with dehydration.
I then went on a liquid diet. Which largely consisted of water, although I added some chicken broth in the mix.
Anyway, while in my gunk, a friend who survived breast cancer asked me, "You can do beef? Ever since my chemo therapy, I can't do beef."
This question kept coming up. But I'm dense. And stubborn. And cheap. So I kept eating beef. Yes, the pain came back, but now that I knew what it was, I'd just go back to liquids 'til it went away. Smart, I know, and yes, very helpful for gaining weight. (Insert sarcastic font)
But then hubby bought a bunch of chicken, and my daughter went gluten free. (Yay! As a side note, she'd been puking 3-4 times a day. Hasn't puked once since going GF) So, I'm no longer cooking spaghetti or burgers for them, which means, there's no point buying ground beef.
Guess what? The pain has largely stopped. And I've dropped two meds: hyoscyamine and pepto. I am now down to 2 immodiums and 9mg of budesonide. If this continues... :)
Progress: talking grapes and beef!
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Cool! Slow and steady wins the race (the race to remission), but a lot of detective work along the way is necessary to keep us on track.
You're making good progress, but as Leah says, the path to remission is almost always littered with additional land mines that tend to show up from time to time.
Thanks for sharing your progress and your insight.
Tex
You're making good progress, but as Leah says, the path to remission is almost always littered with additional land mines that tend to show up from time to time.
Thanks for sharing your progress and your insight.
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.
