Hi,
So grateful for this forum and all the help I've gained from reading through posts also the book-- SO helpful.
I recently read that celery juice is great for helping with colitis. I am wary of introducing any juices right now, as I'm feeling good, no symptoms, nearing the midpoint of a very slow (6-month) Budesonide taper. I remain on a somewhat limited diet of bone broth, fish, steamed veg, potatoes, yucca, rice, coconut oil, daily almond butter and limited sugars overall. I'm avoiding additives of any sort, fruit, most fibers, legumes, etc.
Has anyone tried juicing ? I'm really curious, specifically, about celery juice....
just don't want to set myself back at this point.
Thank you!!
Juicing?
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Hi Jacqueline,
No one has posted any glowing success stories (at least not here, and this forum has been running for over 13 years now) about using celery juice to treat MC. Until I see a lot of posts about using it successfully, and I don't see many posts where it caused a relapse, I'll have to consider it to be unproven speculation. There are a lot of claims out there recommending this or that to help healing, but most of those suggestions worked for one or two people and the author always fails to mention all the people who had a relapse after trying it.
If I were recovering well, I wouldn't try to rock the boat. It's easy to lose control and wind up back at square one.
I recall when I was initially recovering I was doing well and someone suggested using digestive enzymes to speed up healing. Two hours after I took my first enzyme capsule I was vomiting and wondering how I could be so naive. It took four days before I was able to eat any solid food again. That's when I learned that it doesn't pay to rock the boat when you're dealing with MC — remission is a fragile state and it can disappear in the twinkling of an eye.
The topic of juicing comes up often. In general (as far as most MC patients are concerned), juicing is best left until after we are in remission and our digestive system has mostly healed. Healing the intestines requires a lot of protein and the most nutritional source is solid food.
At least that's my opinion.
Tex
No one has posted any glowing success stories (at least not here, and this forum has been running for over 13 years now) about using celery juice to treat MC. Until I see a lot of posts about using it successfully, and I don't see many posts where it caused a relapse, I'll have to consider it to be unproven speculation. There are a lot of claims out there recommending this or that to help healing, but most of those suggestions worked for one or two people and the author always fails to mention all the people who had a relapse after trying it.
If I were recovering well, I wouldn't try to rock the boat. It's easy to lose control and wind up back at square one.
I recall when I was initially recovering I was doing well and someone suggested using digestive enzymes to speed up healing. Two hours after I took my first enzyme capsule I was vomiting and wondering how I could be so naive. It took four days before I was able to eat any solid food again. That's when I learned that it doesn't pay to rock the boat when you're dealing with MC — remission is a fragile state and it can disappear in the twinkling of an eye.
The topic of juicing comes up often. In general (as far as most MC patients are concerned), juicing is best left until after we are in remission and our digestive system has mostly healed. Healing the intestines requires a lot of protein and the most nutritional source is solid food.
At least that's my opinion.
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 Tex,
Thanks so much for confirming my wariness at trying this. I was getting very firm 'suggestions' from a caring family member and was beginning to question my own intuition... clearly my best guide.
Again-- appreciate the sound insight and your experience with all of this---- will stay on the path that is working well.
Best,
Jacqueline
Thanks so much for confirming my wariness at trying this. I was getting very firm 'suggestions' from a caring family member and was beginning to question my own intuition... clearly my best guide.
Again-- appreciate the sound insight and your experience with all of this---- will stay on the path that is working well.
Best,
Jacqueline
Jacqueline