Maybe shitty food just makes people feel shitty.

Yes.

But this wasn't just any shitty food episode lol. These are all new experiences for me. I'm trying to figure out how my body works all over again. it sucks.

Duhhhh....doctors are paid to prescribe medicine not health food.
Pills help but you must eat healthy to really see a difference

I think getting in a really solid remission first before experimenting with food, particularly WELL DOCUMENTED shitty foods, may be a good approach. I mean, you want your body healed and that doesn't happen over night. Slow down, partner! These foods can make anyone feel like hell.

If you eat a bunch of crap after not eating it for so long, that will make you feel like shit. For instance, I can't even imagine what it's like to eat a bucket of KFC since I've not eaten KFC since the early 80s. I suspect I'd have a mean case of cramps and diarrhea from it, and it would have nothing to do with my UC.

Gotcha. Thanks for the input guys! :)

I like to think of an active flare like an open sore. If you pour alcohol on an open sore its going to burn like hell! But once the sore is totally healed and closed up, pouring alcohol on your skin won't hurt one bit.

The trouble is that we can't see our insides in order to determine when the inflammation has subsided.

Eating well during a flare is going to greatly ease your symptoms, but unfortunately it doesn't treat the under lying cause, which is what the medication does. Once you get off the steriods and the inflammation is under control, diet doesn't mean nearly as much.... That's the good news!

I know at first it's hard to wrap your head around treating your symptoms vs reaching remission.

You'll reach remission! I promise... And while yes there are bad drs out there.... Trust me... There are also great ones too.

Diet and IBD is a tricky thing to understand. Getting gassy from a hot dog is not due to having Crohns, most people get gassy from hot dogs. as rmb said, "maybe shitty food just makes people feel shitty".
there is no specific diet or food that causes IBD, and no specific diet or food that cures IBD.
A person can eat a healthy diet 100% of the time, and still have crohn's or colitis. a person can eat shitty food 100% of the time and not have any problems. the food is not the problem. BUT, people with IBD may have more inflammation after eating certain foods (which vary from patient to patient), because the disease causes the response to the food, not because the food causes the disease.

Eating healthy food makes everyone feel healthier. I am confident that every single doctor in the world will tell their patients to eat healthy and not eat shitty food, regardless of their health status.

beedahosen, doctors are not paid to prescribe medicine. they are paid to diagnose and treat patients using proven, effective methods and treatments. if there was evidence that diet can cause or cure IBD, docs would be prescribing a certain diet as treatment, but that alone is not enough to get us into remission. there is no conspiracy to get us to take unnecessary meds.

I think celiacs is a perfect example of doctors prescribing diet. If you have it, you can't eat gluten. Case closed!

Sorry if i came off as rude, i was having bad day when i wrote that...i know there is no conspiracy going on but i do know my doc gets paid vacations from pharmaceutical companies

You are what you eat!

You didn't come off as rude. This is Smart Ass Central after all. You fit right in.

You are what you eat, which is why I said shitty food makes people feel shitty. So I don't think anyone is disputing that. If you eat a generally poor diet, that can contribute to diabetes, heart disease, etc and make you feel rotten. But that doesn't mean that food is specifically linked to IBD. So when GI docs say food doesn't matter, what I think they're saying is that it's not the cause of your disease and it's not the cure for our disease and it may or may not help you with symptoms of the disease and there's no compelling scientific data that proves specific foods are going to make it all better for everyone. For some, you can eat like complete shit and never have an IBD flare up, and for others you can eat clean and healthy and you can flare up. I mean if food were the issue, then why do people who eat really healthy still get sick?

The pharmaceutical industry is a business and there's lots of money to be made. No one disputes that. But so is the supplement/vitamin industry and so is the diet industry. I'm not saying Pharmaceutical companies aren't trying to influence doctors. But I don't think we aught to let that concept get in the way of common sense, which is that there are many medications, many of which are generic, that are proven effective in treating IBD.

I don't believe doctors dissuade people from a healthy diet and lifestyle in order to prescribe certain medications. If that were the case, why would doctors even bother telling their patients over and over again to lose weight, eat healthy and exercise. They'd just give them a pill for every little thing and tell them to go ahead and smoke a pack of cigs a day, eat a whole pizza and sit on their asses for the rest of their life. Holy crap, sign me up. I mean, getting my internist to prescribe anything is like pulling teeth.

Thanks for the vote of confidence rmb....also i completely agree with evrrything u said..

Now give me a slice of that zza
:)

Actually now due to the sunshine act, pharmaceutical sales reps are only allowed to bring lunch into doctors office (can't even go to a restaurant) and it has to be under $25 per person.

The only thing pharmacutical reps have of value anymore are samples and patient savings cards! We can't even give a pen out anymore!

Interesting ashley...i wasnt aware of the sunshine act...the name seems a little silly tho

Ashley is that a federal law or is it by state? The Sunshine Act... sounds like a Vaudeville team