I certainly don't want my life back, because even before I had MC my health was in no way optimal; always a digestion problem and my body covered with psoriasis. That is not a life I want to have back.
I was really sick in 2013, when some functional medicine doctors told me to avoid gluten and casein, which I did. The improvement was nearly impossible to detect, but I was stubborn. I was 66 years old, and we know that the older we get, the longer time it takes to heal.
My improvement didn't accellerate until I discovered this forum in August, 2014.
I sometimes wonder if the fact that I quit taking estrogen & progesterone in 2013, really started my MC. I will never know, and that is not so interesting either, but I suspect a combination of sudden quitting the menopause hormons, too many antibiotic cures, an undiagnosed non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and the fact that I already had one autoimmune disease (psoriasis), all lead to the outbreak of Collagenous Colitis.
Now, two years later I'm starting to feel real good. I don't think I've lost my mind any longer, I sleep well, I eat well (of course according to diet), I don't have anxiety moments, I don't walk as if I'm drunk (lack of B6, B9 and B12), my psoriasis is all gone, and the trips to the bathroom has gone from 20-30 to 1-2 a day.
It has been a bumpy journey, but so worth it .
Lilia