Lexapro, Xanax,etc. ?????
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I couldn't access PP this morning either.
Thanks, Wayne, you answered my question....
Wayne,
Yes, 14 of the 17 who escaped, died, trying to get back to Texas. Northern Mexico, and Southwestern Texas, is composed of extremely inhospitable country, with hundreds of miles of parched land, mostly covered with thorn bushes of various types. If you don't know where the few waterholes are, (as the illegal immigrants do), you don't have much of a chance of surviving.
Yes, there were server problems, and the board was indeed unavailable until about noon, Eastern time. I'm not sure what the problem was - I didn't ask, but it wasn't a typical server problem. Normally, if a server crashes, you'll get a "404" error, (unknown website), but in this case, every time I tried it, I would get a "connection timeout" error, "as if the server were overloaded". Usually, when that happens, the server is being flooded by more requests than it can handle, and it's a tactic that hackers often use, because when a server is flooded, it's much easier to slip some malicious code into a file or two, somewhere on the server. That happened a year or two ago, and someone slipped an "IFrame" into one of our files, and we were getting redirects to a spam website, (that sold software), until I managed to locate and remove the malicious code. That could never have happened, if the server hadn't been flooded for hours. That's not what happened this time, though, because the techies at the ISP would have been well aware of a "flooding" problem.
I used to sit around and worry about things like that, but it finally dawned on me that anytime you're using computer equipment, "stuff" happens, despite your best efforts, so there's not much point in losing sleep over it. About all we can do, is deal with it when it happens. Sorry it happened, though. Hopefully, it will run smoothly for a good long while, now.
Tex
Yes, 14 of the 17 who escaped, died, trying to get back to Texas. Northern Mexico, and Southwestern Texas, is composed of extremely inhospitable country, with hundreds of miles of parched land, mostly covered with thorn bushes of various types. If you don't know where the few waterholes are, (as the illegal immigrants do), you don't have much of a chance of surviving.
Yes, there were server problems, and the board was indeed unavailable until about noon, Eastern time. I'm not sure what the problem was - I didn't ask, but it wasn't a typical server problem. Normally, if a server crashes, you'll get a "404" error, (unknown website), but in this case, every time I tried it, I would get a "connection timeout" error, "as if the server were overloaded". Usually, when that happens, the server is being flooded by more requests than it can handle, and it's a tactic that hackers often use, because when a server is flooded, it's much easier to slip some malicious code into a file or two, somewhere on the server. That happened a year or two ago, and someone slipped an "IFrame" into one of our files, and we were getting redirects to a spam website, (that sold software), until I managed to locate and remove the malicious code. That could never have happened, if the server hadn't been flooded for hours. That's not what happened this time, though, because the techies at the ISP would have been well aware of a "flooding" problem.
I used to sit around and worry about things like that, but it finally dawned on me that anytime you're using computer equipment, "stuff" happens, despite your best efforts, so there's not much point in losing sleep over it. About all we can do, is deal with it when it happens. Sorry it happened, though. Hopefully, it will run smoothly for a good long while, now.
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.
Re: Lexapro, Xanax,etc. ?????
How is it going with the Xanax? My DR wanted me to try Paxil and then Zoloft but I think I will ask about Xanax next time around. I dont need anything that would cause me to go into another flare! And if it causes colitis in 20% of its patients then I could only assume that it would increase if a study was done of just patients who have had some kind of colitis at some point in their lives and took an SSRI.wkm62 wrote:Hi everone,
Due to my worsened physical symptoms the past few days and my lousy mental state, I did not go to work Monday. I made an appointment with my "regular" doctor who I saw Monday afternoon. He did not want to advise me at all concerning MC saying it was "way over his head" and he would leave it to my gastroenterologist. But he apparently knows enough about the relationship between gluten and MC to tell me that there is NO relationship between the two ... that gluten is not a factor in MC. He gave me prescriptions for Xanax and Lexapro ... I'm sure he could see my weakened mental state.
I wanted to ask if anyone has had any good/bad experiences using Xanax, Lexapro, or similar drug for MC and coping.
I am back at work today. I do not know if I will start Lexapro ... the side effects don't look so good. I will call my gastroenterologist later this week and tell him the Entocort and Cholestyramine haven't worked for me.
Take care everyone,
Wayne
If you noticed changes that quick into the diet- then the diet should pay dividends for you. I, like you, went GF (for 4 days and had a normalish BM on the 4th day) and then DR told me to eat gluten again and we would do the tests. Tests came back negative and said gluten was not the cause.
Dr Fine test shows positive for gluten and casien but negative for soy, eggs, and yeast
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Maybe its UC maybe its MC? Who knows at this point, but at least I know my intollerances now... so heres to the road to healing!
Wayne,
Sorry to "hear" that your symptoms are so bad right now. Would you mind telling us what foods you have eliminated from your diet, (or what foods you have not eliminated, if that's easier). Maybe someone will have some ideas.
Tex
Sorry to "hear" that your symptoms are so bad right now. Would you mind telling us what foods you have eliminated from your diet, (or what foods you have not eliminated, if that's easier). Maybe someone will have some ideas.
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.
Wayne,
I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but some of us get violent D from aspartame and/or sorbitol, and to some extent, from just about any artificial sweetener, for that matter.
From the veggies and fruit that you listed, tomatoes, onions, bananas, (sometimes apples), peaches, and watermelon are all known to cause serious digestive system difficulties, (IOW D), for many/most of us, though not all of us have problems with all of them, obviously. The tomatoes, onions, peaches and watermellon are most often likely to cause the worst problems. Tomatoes are a nightshade, of course, but for all I know there might be something ion addition to the solanine, that causes digestive system problems for many of us. I'm not sure what the problem is with onions, but peaches contain high amounts of sorbitol, and watermellon contains a number of ingredients that are known to do a number on sensitive digestive tracts. It made me so sick that I still don't eat watermellon, and I used to love it. The same goes for lettuce - I still don't eat it, and I used to love it. The problem with bananas is that I read somewhere that around 85% of a banana reaches the colon, undigested - IOW, it has way too much fiber for most of us, before our gut heals. If that were the only fiber that you were ingesting, you might get away with it, but on top of all the other fiber that creeps into our diets, even when we try to restrict it, the cumulative amount is simply too much for most of us.
You have to look at the individual items, (to make sure that you're not intolerant to them individually), but most importantly, you have to look at the overall diet, to make sure that the total combination is not causing problems. This applies to gluten, casein, fiber, or whatever - it's the total amount in the diet, in the aggregate, that matters. For example, you might be able to enjoy a limited amount of any given fruit or veggie, on any given day, if that is all you eat, from that category. In fact, at least a three-day rotation imparts some degree of tolerance for many "semi-tolerable" foods, (if there's such a thing as semi-tolerable, LOL). If you eat copious amounts of most of the items in that list, on a regular basis, though, you can probably count on D, along with all the other symptoms. Similarly, you may be able to get away with eating one or two items per day that have trace amounts of gluten, (assuming that you're not hypersensitive to gluten), but if you do enough of that, sooner or later, (usually sooner), the accumulated amount will trigger a reaction, (or keep a reaction going).
You remind me of me, in a way. It took me a year and a half to reach remission. The problem was that every couple of weeks, I would "test" various food items, "just to see if I was still intolerant to them".
Finally, it dawned on me that every time I did that, my gut had to start over, with the healing process, and once I stopped "challenging" myself, it didn't take but a few weeks before I was making some real progress. Once in a while, after I started seeing symptoms begin, rather than to just throw the rest of the problem food away, I would go ahead and finish off the package, (especially if it was cookies, or ice cream, for example), based on the warped logic that "what the hell, I was already getting sick, so what difference would it make - you can't screw up a train wreck". Looking back, that wasn't very sound logic, was it. I guess that's human nature, though - we remain in denial, as long as we can, until we finally get fed up with being sick, and decide to do what we need to do.
It's natural to want to eat a "healthy", "balanced" diet. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that we really can't do that, and achieve remission, at least most of us can't. Even if we were to eat a balanced diet, how balanced could the nutrient absorption be, when we have constant, D, with extremely short transit time? Some nutrients are not as easily absorbed as others, so "balance" is probably an unattainable goal, due to all the accumulated damage to our gut. The best way to go about it, (by far), is to bite the bullet, do whatever it takes to get rid of the D, allow our gut to heal for a while, and then it will be time to think about restoring balance to the diet, after we're able to do a much better job of absorbing those nutrients.
Congratulations on the weight loss - that's mighty impressive. Now, if we can just get the D, (and all the other miserable symptoms), stopped, we can all breath a huge, collective, sigh of relief.
Tex
I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but some of us get violent D from aspartame and/or sorbitol, and to some extent, from just about any artificial sweetener, for that matter.
From the veggies and fruit that you listed, tomatoes, onions, bananas, (sometimes apples), peaches, and watermelon are all known to cause serious digestive system difficulties, (IOW D), for many/most of us, though not all of us have problems with all of them, obviously. The tomatoes, onions, peaches and watermellon are most often likely to cause the worst problems. Tomatoes are a nightshade, of course, but for all I know there might be something ion addition to the solanine, that causes digestive system problems for many of us. I'm not sure what the problem is with onions, but peaches contain high amounts of sorbitol, and watermellon contains a number of ingredients that are known to do a number on sensitive digestive tracts. It made me so sick that I still don't eat watermellon, and I used to love it. The same goes for lettuce - I still don't eat it, and I used to love it. The problem with bananas is that I read somewhere that around 85% of a banana reaches the colon, undigested - IOW, it has way too much fiber for most of us, before our gut heals. If that were the only fiber that you were ingesting, you might get away with it, but on top of all the other fiber that creeps into our diets, even when we try to restrict it, the cumulative amount is simply too much for most of us.
You have to look at the individual items, (to make sure that you're not intolerant to them individually), but most importantly, you have to look at the overall diet, to make sure that the total combination is not causing problems. This applies to gluten, casein, fiber, or whatever - it's the total amount in the diet, in the aggregate, that matters. For example, you might be able to enjoy a limited amount of any given fruit or veggie, on any given day, if that is all you eat, from that category. In fact, at least a three-day rotation imparts some degree of tolerance for many "semi-tolerable" foods, (if there's such a thing as semi-tolerable, LOL). If you eat copious amounts of most of the items in that list, on a regular basis, though, you can probably count on D, along with all the other symptoms. Similarly, you may be able to get away with eating one or two items per day that have trace amounts of gluten, (assuming that you're not hypersensitive to gluten), but if you do enough of that, sooner or later, (usually sooner), the accumulated amount will trigger a reaction, (or keep a reaction going).
You remind me of me, in a way. It took me a year and a half to reach remission. The problem was that every couple of weeks, I would "test" various food items, "just to see if I was still intolerant to them".
Finally, it dawned on me that every time I did that, my gut had to start over, with the healing process, and once I stopped "challenging" myself, it didn't take but a few weeks before I was making some real progress. Once in a while, after I started seeing symptoms begin, rather than to just throw the rest of the problem food away, I would go ahead and finish off the package, (especially if it was cookies, or ice cream, for example), based on the warped logic that "what the hell, I was already getting sick, so what difference would it make - you can't screw up a train wreck". Looking back, that wasn't very sound logic, was it. I guess that's human nature, though - we remain in denial, as long as we can, until we finally get fed up with being sick, and decide to do what we need to do.It's natural to want to eat a "healthy", "balanced" diet. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that we really can't do that, and achieve remission, at least most of us can't. Even if we were to eat a balanced diet, how balanced could the nutrient absorption be, when we have constant, D, with extremely short transit time? Some nutrients are not as easily absorbed as others, so "balance" is probably an unattainable goal, due to all the accumulated damage to our gut. The best way to go about it, (by far), is to bite the bullet, do whatever it takes to get rid of the D, allow our gut to heal for a while, and then it will be time to think about restoring balance to the diet, after we're able to do a much better job of absorbing those nutrients.
Congratulations on the weight loss - that's mighty impressive. Now, if we can just get the D, (and all the other miserable symptoms), stopped, we can all breath a huge, collective, sigh of relief.
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.