Dave,
I 'tested' my trigger ingredients a couple of years after
I confirmed that soy is my worst trigger food.
It is good to remove the curiosity, and to know what may happen should you be glutened, or have contamination by the various ingredients.
Albeit, as we age, the bodies ability to heal reduces. Now that I have done the hard work to have the gut in a good healed state, I want to keep it that way. Remission can be a bit fragile.
Good luck for the future.
LC for 1 year - introduction (with Enterolab report)
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Hi Dave. Good to hear that you are doing so well!
I know how you feel about not wanting to live the rest of your life with all the dietary restrictions. Although I have stayed G,D,S free, I have successfully added many things back into my diet since healing. Such things like RAW veggies, black and white beans, spicy foods, decaf coffee and tea, and even a bit of tomato products and a smudge of butter are all OK now, so there is hope.
If you do decide to test, make sure you do each food separately and for a minimum of three days each.
Take care
Leah
I know how you feel about not wanting to live the rest of your life with all the dietary restrictions. Although I have stayed G,D,S free, I have successfully added many things back into my diet since healing. Such things like RAW veggies, black and white beans, spicy foods, decaf coffee and tea, and even a bit of tomato products and a smudge of butter are all OK now, so there is hope.
If you do decide to test, make sure you do each food separately and for a minimum of three days each.
Take care
Leah
I had a colonoscopy this week and specifically asked the gastroenterologist to test for the lymphocytic colitis. I got my lab test tonight - no trace of the LC! Did I cure it with diet? Is it in deep remission? I don't know, but I'm so used to gluten-free that I think I'll stick with that, though a nightshade or two (that seemed to have been the key for me) sounds pretty good, I wouldn't mind a tomato now and again!
Anyway, just wanted to post an update, I'll post again if there are significant changes.
Anyway, just wanted to post an update, I'll post again if there are significant changes.
Hi Dave,
Good to see an update after all these years. Unfortunately there's no known cure for MC. But yes, the diet puts us in remission, and after the inflammation fades away, the intestinal histology (cellular architecture) will return to normal after a few years, so that under the microscope, the colonic mucosal cells appear to be normal again, as though we are cured. I didn't reread all of this thread, so I don't recall all the details of your case, but after we are in solid remission, most of us can once again eat almost normal amounts of fiber, citrus fruits, nightshades, etc. Therefore, you should be able to eat tomatoes, since they're a citrus fruit. Start off slowly when reintroducing any food, to give your digestive system time to adjust to it. And always reintroduce only one food at a time, so that if you have a reaction, you'll know exactly what caused it. Now that you're in stable remission, experimenting with new foods shouldn't be as risky as before. If you react to a food now, the reaction should be relatively short and mild. If you continue to eat a food to which you are sensitive, though, you may end up back in a major flare.
In your case, you will almost surely have to continue to avoid gluten, casein, soy, and eggs. Your score on the 11 other antigenic foods was much higher than most of us so you may have to continue to be careful about the foods that scored the highest, although you may be able to eat them occasionally, as long as you don't eat them too often. On the other hand, you might be able to eat them normally, as long as you start slowly.
I hope this helps. This is just my opinion, and of course we're all different. Thanks for the update.
Tex
Good to see an update after all these years. Unfortunately there's no known cure for MC. But yes, the diet puts us in remission, and after the inflammation fades away, the intestinal histology (cellular architecture) will return to normal after a few years, so that under the microscope, the colonic mucosal cells appear to be normal again, as though we are cured. I didn't reread all of this thread, so I don't recall all the details of your case, but after we are in solid remission, most of us can once again eat almost normal amounts of fiber, citrus fruits, nightshades, etc. Therefore, you should be able to eat tomatoes, since they're a citrus fruit. Start off slowly when reintroducing any food, to give your digestive system time to adjust to it. And always reintroduce only one food at a time, so that if you have a reaction, you'll know exactly what caused it. Now that you're in stable remission, experimenting with new foods shouldn't be as risky as before. If you react to a food now, the reaction should be relatively short and mild. If you continue to eat a food to which you are sensitive, though, you may end up back in a major flare.
In your case, you will almost surely have to continue to avoid gluten, casein, soy, and eggs. Your score on the 11 other antigenic foods was much higher than most of us so you may have to continue to be careful about the foods that scored the highest, although you may be able to eat them occasionally, as long as you don't eat them too often. On the other hand, you might be able to eat them normally, as long as you start slowly.
I hope this helps. This is just my opinion, and of course we're all different. Thanks for the update.
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.