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...

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Food DOES make a difference....

anxietymc
anxietymc
....at least for me it does....

I really don't understand how some doctor's can say Crohns has nothing to do with how you eat....

I have been doing mostly clean eating for over a month now as well as daily exercise and prednisone/asacol treatment for newly diagnosed Crohns Colitis. Everything was very rosy - I have felt better than I have in a LONG time - up until I made poor diet decisions on Memorial Day. Vienna Beef Hot Dogs and fries at the baseball game I went to. It's amazing, my favorite hot dog now tastes SO SALTY since I have switched to clean eating. Dinner included 2 slices of pizza.

The next day I was back to my clean eating routine, however, my body didn't want me to forget what I had done to myself the day before....INCREDIBLY gassy and mucous again. Haven't experienced that since treatment.

It really sucks to think that I may have to significantly reduce my happy foods even more. At least not have so much of it in one day, because a little here and there every couple of days doesn't bother me.
rmb
rmb
My husband is notorious for saying, well you just don't take care of yourself, to explain my UC and that I don't eat right. T Yes, your right dear; I have UC because I don't take care of myself. What the WHAT? I don't even know what he means, and I don't eat a ton of crap so I'm not even sure what he's talking about. He says it because he just can't comprehend that there's nothing you can do to make it go away. He has type 1 diabetes and so I try to tell him, is there anything you can do to make your diabetes go away/? And he says no and I say, it's the same thing. STILL, he's almost stubborn about how he sees my issues. One day I told him "I didn't get sick with UC until I met you so maybe your the cause." Then we laugh. I mean, people just don't get us, and that's something we have to kind of accept in a way. I've gotten really adept and tuning people out who think they know anything about it.
rmb
rmb
And sorry for all my typos above. Yikes. Clearly, I'm wearing oven mitts when I type.
Akie
Akie
I just came home from an awesome conference put on by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine; it was called "Food as Medicine." it was absolutely amazing to spend 4 full days with some really smart doctors, dietitians, and other healers. It was great to hear about the healing properties of herbs, meditation, what certain minerals can do at toxic levels, gene expression, and the whole nine yards. I left feeling renewed and repurposed. Food really does matter! If anyone has a chance, I encourage you to visit their website.
Peace to all!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Ashley, wow, you really came out of left field, & just to let you know, I haven't been in a doctor's office, that wasn't full of swag, from pharmasutical compinies' hell that's how I started my Medication Pen collection, lolmy ex- Dr. Of 15+ years, office is so full of swag, they give them out to the patient's, (no storage) & also, book ur appointment right before lunch, & your getting moozed too!!!!
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