My doctor wanted to try Cymbalta first so am doing that...just upped the dose to 60mg so we will see....
I am just trying to find another move to make if one is needed.
I know that Dee is on effexor also...Thanks sooo much for your wonderful help!
Jeannine
How Long Did it take you to heal after diet and or meds?
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Hi Jeannine,
I don't take any prescribed medications for the colitis, and never have. I can control it using diet.
Other than the Effexor, I do have Pulmicort for my Asthma and a range of supplements. At the moment I am taking fish oil, Caltrate (because I don't eat the good calcium sources), D3 because it is winter here, zinc for my immune system and coQ10 because it improves my energy. During my last flare I also took sublingual B12 and probiotics.
I have used a range of alternative treatments as well. I found a distinct settling of my GI after doing a round of anti parasitics. Other things have had less clear results.
I don't any dairy, and I normally don't eat gluten. At the moment we don't have a kitchen and are eating out every night, so I am not worrying about avoiding trace amounts of gluten in my evening meal, but am still managing to avoid it for the rest of the day. For me, dairy causes D but gluten doesn't. Gluten just causes arthritic type symptoms and brain fog (and of course the long term risks).
You are most welcome to ask whatever questions you have.
Lyn
I don't take any prescribed medications for the colitis, and never have. I can control it using diet.
Other than the Effexor, I do have Pulmicort for my Asthma and a range of supplements. At the moment I am taking fish oil, Caltrate (because I don't eat the good calcium sources), D3 because it is winter here, zinc for my immune system and coQ10 because it improves my energy. During my last flare I also took sublingual B12 and probiotics.
I have used a range of alternative treatments as well. I found a distinct settling of my GI after doing a round of anti parasitics. Other things have had less clear results.
I don't any dairy, and I normally don't eat gluten. At the moment we don't have a kitchen and are eating out every night, so I am not worrying about avoiding trace amounts of gluten in my evening meal, but am still managing to avoid it for the rest of the day. For me, dairy causes D but gluten doesn't. Gluten just causes arthritic type symptoms and brain fog (and of course the long term risks).
You are most welcome to ask whatever questions you have.
Lyn
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It's hard for me to define healing in this situation. I would bet that a repeat colonoscopy wouldn't have shown M.C. at all, perhaps in the few months in which I figured out how to eliminate all the things I needed to eliminate, and stopped the diarrhea. The body symptoms went away in a few days.
Since I was in my late 50's when I started healing by diet, after a long, long time of being sick, I was more likely to not have enough healing to be able to absorb nutrients from foods like a person starting much younger in life might've been able to do.
In other words, I believe that in some people, although the inflammation is stopped along with the diarrhea and other symptoms, that the gut will never be able to absorb like it did pre-M.C. Since many of us have had small bowel damage in edition to the M.C. in the colon, we also have problems with absorbing fat soluble vitamins from food sources necessitating supplementation for those we are low on.
I hope this makes sense.
Yours, Luce
Since I was in my late 50's when I started healing by diet, after a long, long time of being sick, I was more likely to not have enough healing to be able to absorb nutrients from foods like a person starting much younger in life might've been able to do.
In other words, I believe that in some people, although the inflammation is stopped along with the diarrhea and other symptoms, that the gut will never be able to absorb like it did pre-M.C. Since many of us have had small bowel damage in edition to the M.C. in the colon, we also have problems with absorbing fat soluble vitamins from food sources necessitating supplementation for those we are low on.
I hope this makes sense.
Yours, Luce