MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Hello:

Are they any topics on low energy and how to safely keep the energy up without further
irritating the stomach?

Thank you MC family group!!

Christi....

Hi Christi,

Low energy is usually due to one of three possibilities, or a combination of them.

1. Active MC

2. Iron deficiency

3. Magnesium deficiency

Here's a link to a thread that was updated after treatment to provide a lot of insight on treating low iron:

to iron or not to iron

And a recent review of the topic:

Liquid Iron

And for magnesium information please check the discussion at this link:

Low On Energy? Maybe You're Low On Magnesium.

You're very welcome. I hope that some of this is helpful.

Tex

For me my energy increased when i resolved a combo of deficiencies

magnesium, active B12, CoQ10
NB i have other health issues that deplete the CoQ10. If i miss any of these for more than a few days I start to notice reduction in energy levels.

I find this very interesting and helpful as I have pretty much no energy lately. It’s an awful feeling to be
29 and literally want to go to bed immediately after getting home from work.

Hi B. D.

Welcome to the group. The disease itself robs us of energy, because our immune system uses so much energy fighting the inflammation. The additional items I listed above are more likely after we have been sick for a while so that we begin suffering from the consequences of medium to long-term malabsorption of various nutrients.

Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.

Tex

Thanks so much for the reply. So should I be on a magnesium and vitamin D supplement? I was diagnosed with MC in Aug of 2017 but have had issues since 2006. When I am having a true flare up I am literally laid up and running back and forth to the bathroom. I suffer abdominal pain and cramping on a daily basis... the nausea is hit and miss. I haven’t quite figured out the “diet” I should be following yet as this is all still pretty new to me. I’ll take pepto bismol if my nausea/stomach pain gets really bad... otherwise I just consider it my norm. I am so so grateful I found this site as not too many people know that I suffer with MC.

Hi B. D.

Just want to welcome you here....and you have found an extraordinary place to begin your healing process. Around here it is Progress...not Perfection

You sound like so many including myself who were feeling exactly as you are right now. I had my LC for probably 8 years but it didn't get debilitating until three years later when I got a colonoscopy in 2012, then I forced myself to figure out how to get better in 2015, and now I'm doing so so so much better. It takes time....this is not a quick fix healing process, although some respond very nicely to the diet and mental changes more quickly than not.

Cheers
Erica

bdb623 wrote: So should I be on a magnesium and vitamin D supplement?

If you have had MC for almost 12 years then you are almost surely very deficient by now, possibly vitamin B-12, also. MC causes malabsorption of many nutrients.

Tex