Well, my brain fog got me....I thought I'd responded to your posts and see I just thought about answering...
Tex,
As usual what you suggested about the possibility of my being sensitive to Salicylates opened my eyes to a very different cause of my difficulty. After reading the link you provided, I have been doing a lot of research on the topic and I think you might be on to something. I am simply blown away as so much of my already limited diet falls in this category! Most fruits and quite a few veggies...what a shocker.
So I'm slowly weeding out what I can. I also discovered that Amines can also lead to similar problems....foods like fish, bananas, avocadoes, & mushrooms. And fish sauce has 6X legal limit of histamines! Even decongestants & nasal sprays! Oh, my!
So I'm most appreciative and thank you for the time you invest in all of us!
Sunny
Donna,
I am so glad you let me know that you have only had a 10% drop in cholesterol in the past 15 months! That was very reassuring. I also appreciated your tip to increase Vit D plus explaining the schedule you use for dosing was helpful.
I'm still waiting for my doctor to reply to my message I sent on Friday.
Thanks, Sunny
Tex & Donna
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Sunny,
For me, the Cholestyramine has been quite helpful in reducing the frequency of BMs. I usually have 1-2 BMs/day, sometimes more depending on what I have eaten and how I tolerate the food. The bm consistency had been a bristol scale 6 until I added a small amount of Psyllium and was able to get a consistency ranging, on a bristol scale, 4-5. I decided to keep my Cholestyramine at 3/4 scoop twice a day and add the Psyllum, rather than increasing the Cholestyramine because I thought that would interfere less with nutrient absorption. Sometimes my gut gets noisy at night and when that happens I take a small amount of Benadryl, which does a nice job of quieting it down so I can sleep. I continue to follow an AIP diet with reintroductions. This is the best I have felt since my CC symptoms started 8 years ago.
Hope this helps!
For me, the Cholestyramine has been quite helpful in reducing the frequency of BMs. I usually have 1-2 BMs/day, sometimes more depending on what I have eaten and how I tolerate the food. The bm consistency had been a bristol scale 6 until I added a small amount of Psyllium and was able to get a consistency ranging, on a bristol scale, 4-5. I decided to keep my Cholestyramine at 3/4 scoop twice a day and add the Psyllum, rather than increasing the Cholestyramine because I thought that would interfere less with nutrient absorption. Sometimes my gut gets noisy at night and when that happens I take a small amount of Benadryl, which does a nice job of quieting it down so I can sleep. I continue to follow an AIP diet with reintroductions. This is the best I have felt since my CC symptoms started 8 years ago.
Hope this helps!
Donna
Diagnosed with CC August 2011
Diagnosed with CC August 2011
Sunny,
You're most welcome. I hope you can figure out a diet/treatment program that will work well for you.
Tex
You're most welcome. I hope you can figure out a diet/treatment program that will work well for you.
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.
HI Donna,
I'm doing 3/4 scoop also morning and night...with no added fiber and am like you with 1-2 BM's a day or every other day....a much nicer tread is taking shape.
Erica
I'm doing 3/4 scoop also morning and night...with no added fiber and am like you with 1-2 BM's a day or every other day....a much nicer tread is taking shape.
Erica
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Dx LC April 2012 had symptoms since Aug 2007
Dx LC April 2012 had symptoms since Aug 2007
Hi Donna,
Well, thanx again for these tips...really is helpful. It's encouraging that this has helped you so much!
Now I just need my doc to respond to my note. Guess I'll have to call the office to ask them to notify her that her inbox has a message for me!
Sunny
Well, thanx again for these tips...really is helpful. It's encouraging that this has helped you so much!
Now I just need my doc to respond to my note. Guess I'll have to call the office to ask them to notify her that her inbox has a message for me!
Sunny
"It is very difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. "
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair