Jean,
You have a very interesting medical history. I suspect that back in those days, (when you might have had Brucellosis), the disease was sort of like MC is these days - if a doctor did not suspect the disease, and specifically look for it, (with repeated culture tests), it could have easily gone undiagnosed.
I agree that taking vitamins is a very good idea for anyone with active MC, especially vitamins B-12 and D3.
You're most welcome,
Tex
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Hi Jean!
You might want to forego the cheese until you are in remission. Then you can test it. (It is usually impossible to tease out individual intolerances while we are having constant D).
Now for the good news! At least in my case, coffee is NO PROBLEM! And as you know, I react to everything. I drink at least 3-4 cups of regular (high-test!) coffee each day and have found absolutely no effect, even when my MC was at its worst. And the studies are now showing so many benefits for coffee-drinkers. WAHOO!
Good news that your bones are OK - that's such an issue for many of us.
Love,
Polly
You might want to forego the cheese until you are in remission. Then you can test it. (It is usually impossible to tease out individual intolerances while we are having constant D).
Now for the good news! At least in my case, coffee is NO PROBLEM! And as you know, I react to everything. I drink at least 3-4 cups of regular (high-test!) coffee each day and have found absolutely no effect, even when my MC was at its worst. And the studies are now showing so many benefits for coffee-drinkers. WAHOO!
Good news that your bones are OK - that's such an issue for many of us.
Love,
Polly
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Hi there!
I was just wondering if you could post a couple days worth of foods that you eat, so we could get an idea of exactly what the caveman diet looks like for you.
I also wondered about the possibility that low calcium/potassium or other minerals is a factor in leg cramping. High protein dieters get cramping, because high protein means low potassium: those on a high protein diet (for weight loss) are advised to supplement with 100-200 mg of potassium in tablet form.
I hope since your last post the problems have disappeared, and you don't need to pursue this anymore!
Love, Marsha
I was just wondering if you could post a couple days worth of foods that you eat, so we could get an idea of exactly what the caveman diet looks like for you.
I also wondered about the possibility that low calcium/potassium or other minerals is a factor in leg cramping. High protein dieters get cramping, because high protein means low potassium: those on a high protein diet (for weight loss) are advised to supplement with 100-200 mg of potassium in tablet form.
I hope since your last post the problems have disappeared, and you don't need to pursue this anymore!
Love, Marsha
Hi Jan, I know what you mean the difficult search in what you can eat and not eat and sorry to hear about your flare up. Do you use any medication? Suggestions that I can make from personal experience are, legumes (that are lentils and all kind of beans or not?), fruits with small seeds in it like kiwi, all kind of berries. With orange juice I figured out without ..don't know the word... the small particles in it after squeezing them fruit fiber??. Oranges with fruit fibers in it goes wrong, but without is fine. Probably because the fibers irritate the gut (this also solved in my case another mystery, before my real mc problems started, I just started to drink a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice every morning and I had the idea my bowels were becoming more active of that, now I understand why). Pine apple is also a bad idea.
Also with vegetables for me no mushrooms, no paprika (or do you call them peppers), no sugar snaps, no union.
I can agree with you an the raw veggies, I (almost) never eat them.
Do you eat tomato sauces? I have the idea (but not sure) makes my bowel problems worse
Can you eat corn? If so how do you react on that?
Also mustard, I sometimes use to spice up my food, but also not so sure about that. It seems to irritate the gut.
Hope your flare up will be over soon and you figure what food courses you the problems.
Also with vegetables for me no mushrooms, no paprika (or do you call them peppers), no sugar snaps, no union.
I can agree with you an the raw veggies, I (almost) never eat them.
Do you eat tomato sauces? I have the idea (but not sure) makes my bowel problems worse
Can you eat corn? If so how do you react on that?
Also mustard, I sometimes use to spice up my food, but also not so sure about that. It seems to irritate the gut.
Hope your flare up will be over soon and you figure what food courses you the problems.
Harma,
Not sure what the problem is with mustard but you need to check the ingredient list if you haven't already. I have found mustards that I can tolerate; that don't contain any items on my list of intolerances. Make sure there is no gluten in it.
Tomato sauce - again, read the ingredient list carefully. Some tomato sauces (pasta sauces) contain soybean oil or vegetable oil (not good if you are intolerant of soy and/or corn). Most pasta sauces and canned or bottled tomato products contain ascorbic acid or citric acid; it is usually the last or next to last item on the ingredient list. I have found that I don't tolerate anything that has these acids added. The purpose of the acid is to retain the bright red color of the canned tomato product.
There are pasta sauces on the market (USA) that do not contain any of the above mentioned ingredients. They are usually, but not always, Organic and thus more expensive than the regular pasta/tomato product. I have found the Bertolli makes several pasta sauces that are non-organic, thus not as expensive, and very clean as in free of my food intolerances. POMI is an Italian brand of boxed tomoto sauce, that I have found in the Publix supermarket stores. It contains nothing but tomatoes and it's is delicious to put in home made Chilie (Con Cane). Tabasco actually makes a Chilie Sauce that is also very clean and tastes terrific.
http://www.tabasco.com/tabasco_tent/chi ... recipe.cfm
I use both of these products. Not all grocery stores have them. Ask your store to stock it for you or find a store that has it on their shelves. It's very good.
http://www.buythecase.net/product/6017/ ... ta%20Sauce
http://www.pennmac.com/page/29/
http://www.amazon.com/Muir-Glen-Organic ... B000LKXFTC
Muir Glen Tomato Ketchup is wonderful and clean - unfortunately, I have not been able to use any of the other tomato products from Muir Glen due to the content of citric or ascorbic acid.
There are many other tomato products that are OK; find the one's that work for you and are available in your area.
Not sure what the problem is with mustard but you need to check the ingredient list if you haven't already. I have found mustards that I can tolerate; that don't contain any items on my list of intolerances. Make sure there is no gluten in it.
Tomato sauce - again, read the ingredient list carefully. Some tomato sauces (pasta sauces) contain soybean oil or vegetable oil (not good if you are intolerant of soy and/or corn). Most pasta sauces and canned or bottled tomato products contain ascorbic acid or citric acid; it is usually the last or next to last item on the ingredient list. I have found that I don't tolerate anything that has these acids added. The purpose of the acid is to retain the bright red color of the canned tomato product.
There are pasta sauces on the market (USA) that do not contain any of the above mentioned ingredients. They are usually, but not always, Organic and thus more expensive than the regular pasta/tomato product. I have found the Bertolli makes several pasta sauces that are non-organic, thus not as expensive, and very clean as in free of my food intolerances. POMI is an Italian brand of boxed tomoto sauce, that I have found in the Publix supermarket stores. It contains nothing but tomatoes and it's is delicious to put in home made Chilie (Con Cane). Tabasco actually makes a Chilie Sauce that is also very clean and tastes terrific.
http://www.tabasco.com/tabasco_tent/chi ... recipe.cfm
I use both of these products. Not all grocery stores have them. Ask your store to stock it for you or find a store that has it on their shelves. It's very good.
http://www.buythecase.net/product/6017/ ... ta%20Sauce
http://www.pennmac.com/page/29/
http://www.amazon.com/Muir-Glen-Organic ... B000LKXFTC
Muir Glen Tomato Ketchup is wonderful and clean - unfortunately, I have not been able to use any of the other tomato products from Muir Glen due to the content of citric or ascorbic acid.
There are many other tomato products that are OK; find the one's that work for you and are available in your area.
Mustard, I have the idea that is caused just by the inflammation of the bowel. It is a bit spicy, maybe that causes the problems. For now I will avoid it and try it again when the gut is healed.
Tomatoes, that is a tricky one. I am not sure, but before I was even diagnosed with CC, I kept a food journal and had the idea any tomato food made it worse (juice, soup, ketchup, curry). I haven't tried it again, because I am so afraid of making things worse. Also in time I will try it again, because it is a great ingredient to make food more tasteful. The idea of citric or ascorbic acid I haven't considered that yet. I don't expect that will be the problem, because I have seen that ingredients on other food and as far as I know didn't cause me any problem.
I have more the idea I can't stand nightshades, I also have problems with pepper (or paprika how is it called in English)
Tomatoes, that is a tricky one. I am not sure, but before I was even diagnosed with CC, I kept a food journal and had the idea any tomato food made it worse (juice, soup, ketchup, curry). I haven't tried it again, because I am so afraid of making things worse. Also in time I will try it again, because it is a great ingredient to make food more tasteful. The idea of citric or ascorbic acid I haven't considered that yet. I don't expect that will be the problem, because I have seen that ingredients on other food and as far as I know didn't cause me any problem.
I have more the idea I can't stand nightshades, I also have problems with pepper (or paprika how is it called in English)
Jeanie,
This thread was last posted to over 4 years ago. Try posting your question on the Main Message Board. There are numerous discussions there about the MTHFR gene.
Tex
This thread was last posted to over 4 years ago. Try posting your question on the Main Message Board. There are numerous discussions there about the MTHFR gene.
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.