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amother

OP ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 5:23 pm

Hi,
I'm looking for someone to guide me on what to eat and what not to eat, I'm newly diagnosed with colitis. Currently taking a low grade medicine, I've been doing well b"h, but will randomly start feeling not too great out of no where. I was told to do a food sensitivity test to try and help narrow down which foods are triggering me. I'm also looking for someone to guide me and help me make meal plans, with actual menus and maybe recipes on what I should be eating. There's so much info out there I literally have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. Anyone who's had experience with colitis and helping it through diet, if you could chime in on what I can do/where to go to get some guidance that would be a great help!
thank you so much!

amother

Lemon ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 5:39 pm

I know someone who had colitis and then developed another autoimmune disease on top of it. He used Peta Cohen remotely and it's a few years later now, he's completely med free and feeling great bh. I would try her.

amother

Orchid ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 6:03 pm

I, too, have ulcerative colitis for more than 20 years. I also have IBS, and that's where it gets tricky.

I have found no food sensitivies other than beans/peapods, and I use Beano, a digestive enzyme, to manage that.

Stress is really the thing that triggers my colitis: when I'm relaxed, my colon is fine. When I'm in high-stress mode, my colon is bleeding.

I'm assuming you're on the 5-ASA drugs? Mesalamine? It's very manageable, but diets don't tend to play a part. (I mean, you may have food issues, but they are likely separate from your colitis.)

amother

↑ Lemon ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 6:25 pm

amother

Pear ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 6:27 pm

Diets play a huge role. I don't take meds, do scd diet and am inflammation free with ibd.

amother

↑ Lemon ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 6:29 pm

amother [ Orchid ] wrote:

Stress is really the thing that triggers my colitis: when I'm relaxed, my colon is fine. When I'm in high-stress mode, my colon is bleeding.

It's very manageable, but diets don't tend to play a part. (I mean, you may have food issues, but they are likely separate from your colitis.)

Yes, I agree that stress and autoimmune diseases are closely related.

Regarding the second part, ummm....just no. I can list at least a dozen people that I know personally who've put their IBD into remission by changing up their diet and hundreds more that I "know" from social media. There's even research on the topic of diet and Crohn's/Colitis.

amother

↑ Orchid

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 6:51 pm

amother [ Lemon ] wrote:

Social media isn't reality.

amother

↑ Lemon ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 7:42 pm

amother [ Orchid ] wrote:

Social media isn't reality.

You picked out what you wanted to pick out from my post. I should have been more clear. It's Facebook groups of people posting under their real name with their real life experience-the good, the bad, the ugly. These are people I have interacted with for more than 5 years. Yes, people do have flare ups from time to time. The overwhelming majority live well, live symptom-free, and many of them without medication.

realsilver

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 8:04 pm

colitis is 1000 percent able to be controlled with the correct diet.

amother

↑ Pear ↓

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 8:23 pm

I know approximately 30 people that have their ibd controlled by diet.

amother

Mulberry

Tue, Jun 07 2022, 8:28 pm

I have crohn's and it for asking with arthritis like flairs:(
In fact staying to feel pain in an ankle which might mean full blown foot pain and then stomach coming up.

I'm on mesalamine

What diet do you suggest?

amother

↑ OP

Wed, Jun 08 2022, 2:42 am

OP here, for all of you that use diet to control your symptoms, how do you do it? I'd really like to attempt to go down that path, can you recommend someone that can give me guidance in this area. Is it a a naturopath or a doctor that does integrative medicine? My dr is amazing but he just tells me to eat a Mediterranean diet, when I google that its so overwhelming, I just don't know what I'm supposed to do! thank you to the previous poster for mentioning peta cohen, I will definitely look into her.

amother

↑ Pear

Wed, Jun 08 2022, 7:02 am

Wellbees offers support for the scd diet.

amother

↑ Lemon

Wed, Jun 08 2022, 9:52 am

amother [ Pear ] wrote:

Wellbees offers support for the scd diet.

amother

Brass

Sun, Jul 24 2022, 6:43 pm

I had colitis, It was really bad. I took regular Prednisone then switched to stronger meds. I tried sensitivity testing diets ect. BH after following the Sarno method I healed myself. It's been 15 yrs and symptom free.
Read " the mind body prescription".
I actual went to a special Rabbi who gave classes for free. But this book explains it all.

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