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Hi! I haven't checked in since I first registered. I've had two surgeries this year, for foot problems and a total knee replacement. Now I'm ready to tackle the colitis and OMG I go back to work (teaching) in just a week and a half. Any suggestions for first steps? All I got from my GE was a script for lomotil and my PCP says I can take up to 8 imodium a day. I really don't like to take either. I figured out from reading that I probably need to cut out dairy and gluten. Is it really all trial and error? Thanks in advance for your help.
That depends on which foods you are sensitive to. Fortunately, as Joan pointed out, Enterolab offers stool testing that can pinpoint the common problems, such as gluten, casein, (the primary protein in dairy), soy, eggs, etc. The tests that they offer are the only ones in the world, that are accurate and reliable enough to detect the markers of celiac disease, for example, several years before it develops sufficiently that it can be detected by the conventional blood tests that most doctors use. Those tests can save many months of trial and error, and suffering.AZGAL wrote:Is it really all trial and error?
I hope the surgery completely resolved your foot and knee issues.
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.