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little_tippler · 05-05-2006, 05:23 AM

I have an IBD, ulcerative colitis, which isn't quite the same, but has similar symptoms. I am also lactose intolerant. Certain foods also affect it, coke, spicy foods, very rich foods, fried foods, and dairy products are on my list of irritants. Also have a bit of alternating constiaption and diarrhea, during period times this is more evident. DFon't get very bad period cramps though, just mild. The worse part is that I bleed every so often and then have to take corticosteroids.

I have learned to live with it, I can't really say that anything has worked entirely for me ever, diet, medications, but I take Salofalk pills and occasionally aero-om for bloating and gas, and though I will eat some of the foods that seem to affect me, I eat a little of everything in moderation. Sometimes I have found that even though I am steering clear of the foods that seem to make it worse, it seems to like it when I go back to those foods. So I have decided not to exclude anything from my diet, choosing to eat the things that make it worse less often than all the other things I can eat without problems. I also have some pills to take when I drink straight milk, for the lactose. I find it only flares up if I'm having milk with nothing else, and not with other dairy products.

All you can do is live with it and try and gradually understand what triggers it and then try and avoid doing that. It will always come back - at least in my case.

05-05-2006, 05:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	I have an IBD, ulcerative colitis, which isn't quite the same, but has similar symptoms. I am also lactose intolerant. Certain foods also affect it, coke, spicy foods, very rich foods, fried foods, and dairy products are on my list of irritants. Also have a bit of alternating constiaption and diarrhea, during period times this is more evident. DFon't get very bad period cramps though, just mild. The worse part is that I bleed every so often and then have to take corticosteroids. I have learned to live with it, I can't really say that anything has worked entirely for me ever, diet, medications, but I take Salofalk pills and occasionally aero-om for bloating and gas, and though I will eat some of the foods that seem to affect me, I eat a little of everything in moderation. Sometimes I have found that even though I am steering clear of the foods that seem to make it worse, it seems to like it when I go back to those foods. So I have decided not to exclude anything from my diet, choosing to eat the things that make it worse less often than all the other things I can eat without problems. I also have some pills to take when I drink straight milk, for the lactose. I find it only flares up if I'm having milk with nothing else, and not with other dairy products. All you can do is live with it and try and gradually understand what triggers it and then try and avoid doing that. It will always come back - at least in my case. __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918 Last edited by little_tippler; 05-05-2006 at 05:33 AM..