Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

[DethKlok]

Re: Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

yep you got that right. they have tried and gave me a bunch of crap to try and help fix it. the bad thing for me is that even when i eat clean to prep i still get the same effect for the most part. if i am crapping solid it makes me think their is something bad wrong lol. i didnt have any issues at all until after the dysentery. since then my guts have been wrecked. only good thing that came out of it is a huge disability percentage from the va that put me at 100%. so at least they compensated me for it

Sounds like IBS to me. Most folks can trace the onset to a certain trigger. I know a guy who took a whole box of exlax when he was kid and has been checked inside and out and he is fine physically, but his physiology changed and he has had IBS-D for decades now. Another guy i know it was salmonella as a teenager. Sounds like dysentery was your trigger. Just because your colon is technically healthy it does not mean IBS is very real and very life altering. IBS can be associated with diarrhea (IBS-D), constipation (IBS-C), and it can alternate (IBS-ALT). Every time you eat you stimulate your entire digestive system which for most folks with IBS-D triggers an episode. This is why it is encouraged more so for someone that is chronically constipated (IBS-C) to eat breakfast in order to wake up their digestive system and get it to break its rest cycle. There are medications available to help with symptoms of IBS because sometimes diet is not enough but it sounds like you have been there too. You said when your plumbing gets better you get concerned. It is funny because that is something only a person who suffers from IBS or IBD would understand.

[guns01]

Re: Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

Sounds like IBS to me. Most folks can trace the onset to a certain trigger. I know a guy who took a whole box of exlax when he was kid and has been checked inside and out and he is fine physically, but his physiology changed and he has had IBS-D for decades now. Another guy i know it was salmonella as a teenager. Sounds like dysentery was your trigger. Just because your colon is technically healthy it does not mean IBS is very real and very life altering. IBS can be associated with diarrhea (IBS-D), constipation (IBS-C), and it can alternate (IBS-ALT). Every time you eat you stimulate your entire digestive system which for most folks with IBS-D triggers an episode. This is why it is encouraged more so for someone that is chronically constipated (IBS-C) to eat breakfast in order to wake up their digestive system and get it to break its rest cycle. There are medications available to help with symptoms of IBS because sometimes diet is not enough but it sounds like you have been there too. You said when your plumbing gets better you get concerned. It is funny because that is something only a person who suffers from IBS or IBD would understand.

you should go work at the va dk. or even a normal practice. oh wait dont do that that would wreck my disability rating haha.

[guns01]

Re: Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

Sounds like IBS to me. Most folks can trace the onset to a certain trigger. I know a guy who took a whole box of exlax when he was kid and has been checked inside and out and he is fine physically, but his physiology changed and he has had IBS-D for decades now. Another guy i know it was salmonella as a teenager. Sounds like dysentery was your trigger. Just because your colon is technically healthy it does not mean IBS is very real and very life altering. IBS can be associated with diarrhea (IBS-D), constipation (IBS-C), and it can alternate (IBS-ALT). Every time you eat you stimulate your entire digestive system which for most folks with IBS-D triggers an episode. This is why it is encouraged more so for someone that is chronically constipated (IBS-C) to eat breakfast in order to wake up their digestive system and get it to break its rest cycle. There are medications available to help with symptoms of IBS because sometimes diet is not enough but it sounds like you have been there too. You said when your plumbing gets better you get concerned. It is funny because that is something only a person who suffers from IBS or IBD would understand.

i misspoke dk. they diagnosed me with chrons not colitus. still driven by inflammation nonetheless but i was thinking colitus and it was chrons

[DethKlok]

Re: Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

i misspoke dk. they diagnosed me with chrons not colitus. still driven by inflammation nonetheless but i was thinking colitus and it was chrons

I am sorry to hear that. Crohn's is a ***** goddess from hell. It really is a disease that is different from person to person and you know your Crohn's better than anyone. There are members here on FG that have Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis willing to help and give advice if you ever need any myself included brother.

[BABY1]

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Goddess of inflammation is present. Sorry you guys have to go through this. Bad guts are a *****

[guns01]

Re: Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

Goddess of inflammation is present. Sorry you guys have to go through this. Bad guts are a *****

that's a fact baby1 esp when you are a fat guy that loves all food. i dont think i have found many foods that i dont like, they just odnt like me very much haha. i will tell you that adding in the super bio curcummin and some of the other anti inflammatory supps to my lineup has helped a lot with the pain discomfort and bloat. then again i havent had any diary in over 3 months so i wont know completely for sure until i add a little back in

[chemicallyengineered]

Re: Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

One of my regional managers has crohns and he gets remicaid? Infusions. I think that was the name. He said it makes a huge difference.


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[DethKlok]

Re: Ulcerative colitis flares: Managing and easing symptoms

One of my regional managers has crohns and he gets remicaid? Infusions. I think that was the name. He said it makes a huge difference.


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Remicade is a biologic. Its 3 rounds of infusion that take 3 hours each (i think) at the hospital. there is a member here who does this treatment when he has a flare and that is all he does. There are other biologics like Humira shots available for taking at home. I have personally tried this one and it set my Crohn's off into something awful but for others its a miracle.