Pat You have to get the diarrhea under control !
Protein, Vitamin and Mineral deficiencies
a real problem with CD disease

Malnutrition occurs in patients with Crohn's disease as a result of inflammation in the digestive tract. This prevents the body from Absorbing the normal amount of calories, nutrients, and fluids from foods that are eaten. (No Energy)

ask Doctor about his blood Work (blood work shows deficiencies
Eating Wheat and Sugar Free should Help
sub-out wheat flour w/ Corn flour/Starchand
Sugar W/ RAW Honey

Get him signed up for FMLA
http://sites.google.com/site/crohnsrules/fmla

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FMLA?
He is also insulin dependant so very careful about what he eats.
Some days are pretty much normal, as normal as it can be with CD, abd he can sleep thru the night...others.....nope!

Hi Pwife

I think most of us have had the same thing, good one day, bad the next. And not being able to figure out why. I've spent the best part of 10 years trying to figure it out. And all my days were bad.

In the last 2 months I FINALLY started seeing better results. I started by going on the SCD diet which was good but by really listening to my colon, paying total attention, I found that even in that restricted diet I needed to remove a few more foods.

I think everyone is different and my "bad" foods may not be the same as Pat's "bad" foods.

I tried every diet there was with no results but tried one last time with the SCD diet (again-tried it before) and really paid attention to reactions, kept a food journal. It paid off with the best 8 weeks I've had in the last 10 years. Sleeping better, less diarhhea (almost none), less urgency (almost none).

But if I eat one thing off my list, like I did on Friday, it's back to poor sleep and a bad bathroom day. It's now simple for me.

Two things: SCD diet (with modifications) and the book "Life without Bread" made me better.

Good luck. Keep trying, it's possible to get better.

SCD?

Hi, Patswife, hows that
pat of ours been doing ?

4him A - Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD)

In the way you describe your husbands days you could have been describing my life!! It gets so discouraging I know but all we can do is press on and keep going. Please be careful not to allow yourself OR him to fall into a state of guilt or depression as that is trap that's even harder to pull yourself out of.
I'm here if you need to chat.

I forgot to mention how lucky you are he can still work! Due to the severe fatigue I get and bathroom runs I can no longer work. SO focus on the positive aspects. It sounds as if he is expending his strength and energy at work. Days when he crashes and burns maybe that's a day when you can go and do something for yourself. I get my hubby to go play golf or do something he likes instead of sitting around with me doing nothing.
Again I'm here if you need to chat
Melanie