Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis Support Group
Crohn's disease is a systemic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of unknown cause, that results in chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. It can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, and can also cause complications outside of the gastrointestinal tract. There is no known medical or surgical cure for Crohn's disease, but there are many medical...
Constipation
1.) Low magnesium can contribute to constipation partially through lower thyroid hormone. Constipation is one symptoms of low thyroid. If you have low magnesium this can also lead to low progesterone which can contribute toward anxiety, etc. Ask your doctor about magnesium citrate supplementation.
If you take certain diuretics including coffee, blood pressure medications or drink lots of alcohol you can deplete magnesium which can lead to constipation.
2.) Low thyroid hormone called T3 or high reverse T3 (due to stress, etc.) can contribute to constipation. Note most docs don't know about Reverse T3 let alone test for it. Stress and inflammation can contribute toward reverse T3.
3.) Not enough water and fiber can contribute to constipation. Drinking more water, eating bran cereal and prune juice could help if this is the case.
4.) Medications: Magnesium Citrate, Lactulose, etc.
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I recently wrote the book Autoimmune Success: Proven Tests, Research and Treatments that Reversed Symptoms. Below are some of the tips at the end of chapter 4 where I cover secondary symptoms treatments you can discuss with your doctor ie Anti-Pain, Anti-fatigue, Anti-Constipation etc.)
Hope this helps you
(Note If you use this information elsewhere then reference the copyrighted book Autoimmune Success as your source. www.AMSchneider.com)
1.) Low magnesium can contribute to constipation partially through lower thyroid hormone. Constipation is one symptoms of low thyroid. If you have low magnesium this can also lead to low progesterone which can contribute toward anxiety, etc. Ask your doctor about magnesium citrate supplementation.
If you take certain diuretics including coffee, blood pressure medications or drink lots of alcohol you can deplete magnesium which can lead to constipation.
2.) Low thyroid hormone called T3 or high reverse T3 (due to stress, etc.) can contribute to constipation. Note most docs don't know about Reverse T3 let alone test for it. Stress and inflammation can contribute toward reverse T3.
3.) Not enough water and fiber can contribute to constipation. Drinking more water, eating bran cereal and prune juice could help if this is the case.
4.) Medications: Magnesium Citrate, Lactulose, etc.
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I recently wrote the book Autoimmune Success: Proven Tests, Research and Treatments that Reversed Symptoms. Below are some of the tips at the end of chapter 4 where I cover secondary symptoms treatments you can discuss with your doctor ie Anti-Pain, Anti-fatigue, Anti-Constipation etc.)
Hope this helps you
(Note If you use this information elsewhere then reference the copyrighted book Autoimmune Success as your source. www.AMSchneider.com)
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Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
* Get testing to find out what foods cause the chemicals that induce inflammation and pain in the body along with others that cause allergens. If you are taking steroids to block chemicals (ie PGs LTs) that cause inflammation do your really want to eat foods that cause these same chemicals and adverse reactions?
* Plus a lab that tests individual gluten Sub-proteins then you just cut out the grains that cause YOU an issue so you do not activate Zonulin (see A.F. Italian researcher's data on how this can affect autoimmune disease)
* Get good GI testing as they are finding tight junction issues in the Guts of those with not only IBDs (Crohns and Ulcerative Colitis) but also RA and MS,etc. This REALLY helped me greatly reduce my severe UC symptoms to very mild. I had bad bacteria, fungi, low functioning digestive organs, etc.
NOTE when I UC flares I would get bronco-constricted and had hard time breathing (neighbor asked if I had bronchitis). Finding and treating the causes of your gut inflammation can also positively impact the 70-80% of the immune system in your gut. My issue was fungi that caused both my breathing issues and damaged my GI. This is something you might want to look into.
Good luck
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If we are going to be skeptical of the medical community, be skeptical of hysteria thinking everything is wrong with us.
And my hope is that the original poster is posting this truly to be helpful and not to promote the book or the website because if that's the case, that's low.
My son got eczema and it got so bad I thought it was going to bleed..really bad. The doc could not get me testing or treatment to help him except suggesting lotions(this did not work). My daughter had RLS and it got continually worse over a few years. She was having hypoglycemia in the mornings (risk factor for diabetes). The doctor could do nothing as she was only 4 yrs old. I asked for testing to find out if bad micro-organisms where contributing to my UC. My GI doc said you have UC and gave me my asacol. Plus my husband was diagnosed with MS prior to my UC diagnosis.
I seen all my family get worse and worse while the doctors could not help them. I could not sit back and do nothing. So I went out and took about 70+ credits in hard sciences, read thousands of PubMed pieces of research and books by clinicians over 8 years.
I went out and called/emailed Universities, labs, research facilities, doctors offices, etc to find the tests that could help find contributing factors of disease and therapies to reduce triggering stress response in the body. We all found improvements by using the therapies (lots of research on them too) and testing.
I found not only where bad micro-organisms overgrown, which I suspected due to antibiotic repeated use, but reduced organ function as seen in my bowel chemistries. I had not expected that as I am not a drinker (alcohol or pop), not a smoker never done illegal drugs and eat pretty healthy. However, had had multiple antibiotics (IV included) and lots of stress. When I was diagnosed with SEVERE UC after 2.5 weeks of nothing but blood I was told there was nothing they could do for me besides anti-inflammatory meds (asacol or steroids for flares). They would not even do tests to look at WHY I had inflammation.
I wanted to find contributing causes of diseases and then what I could do to counter them. I now have mild UC because I helped reduce stress response (still need to do this more), helping the GI organs to provide a more conducive gut environment for the good bacteria which positively impacts the 70-80% if the mature immune system in the gut.
I am trying to share some of that information with you. That is trying to be helpful NOT low. If you think it is bunk then just skip my post.
I hope all of you find better health.