digestion
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digestion
can anyone help? last week i posted i was having a bad few days....on tues. things were much better and then yesterday and today, not as good again. noticed some chunks of tomato in the toilet that i had eaten yesterday for lunch. how can i get my digestion better? what the heck is going on? why a few bad days, one good day and another 2 bad days especially when i have not done anything different. think it's time to call the dr.
I've been in remission for over 7 years now, and I could always eat jalapenos or tabasco sauce without any problems, (they still don't cause any problems), but piquante sauce and certain other salsas give me D every time. I've never bothered to determine whether the problem was the tomatoes, or something else - I just avoid them. I've never been a tomato fan, so I never eat them individually, anyway.
Tex
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.
Willabec,
I think you need to give it more time after "a few bad days" before returning to fresh tomatoes. That seems like what your body is trying to tell you.
All of us now react now to foods we didn't react to before - that's part of the MC story. Maybe if you give your insides more of a chance to settle down and heal, once symptoms start, you'll be able to enjoy fresh salsa again. That's been my theory, and it's really working for me.
Once you've been symptom free and stable for some period of time, then you can start to experiment and see whether a food is a true problem for you - in this case, it could just be the fiber on an already upset system. Just because the D stops doesn't mean you're 100% good to go... it takes a lot longer than most docs realize for the gut to heal.
Good luck,
Sara
I think you need to give it more time after "a few bad days" before returning to fresh tomatoes. That seems like what your body is trying to tell you.
All of us now react now to foods we didn't react to before - that's part of the MC story. Maybe if you give your insides more of a chance to settle down and heal, once symptoms start, you'll be able to enjoy fresh salsa again. That's been my theory, and it's really working for me.
Once you've been symptom free and stable for some period of time, then you can start to experiment and see whether a food is a true problem for you - in this case, it could just be the fiber on an already upset system. Just because the D stops doesn't mean you're 100% good to go... it takes a lot longer than most docs realize for the gut to heal.
Good luck,
Sara