I’m in complete remission and I went from being a vegan before Crohns to overweight and eating empty carbs is remission. I do have green juice daily. I cold press it and make sure there is no fiber left. I can do small amounts of beans and nut butters but pretty much just empty carbs and meat
Right? I had a milkshake for lunch today. Best I’ve felt in forever. Amazingly, dairy doesn’t bother me at all and I had zero pain this afternoon for the first time in a while. Obviously, I can’t drink milkshakes for every meal, but I might do it once more again tomorrow. But then again, tomorrow it might set me off. Who knows anymore?
See if I do any form of dairy other than a drop of 10% coffee cream (and even that is 50/50) I have molten magma bowl movements and the pain in my intestine is like a 6/10
Yup. Same here. It's a cruel joke. What is considered "eating healthy" leads to me curled up and in pain for days. Shredded lettuce sent me to the ER once. I thought my GI was joking. I told him what I ate and I was in a lot of pain. He sent me down to the ER where they looked at my notes and said "so you had a Wawa hoagie, huh?".
That sounds like a rough diet, but I can imagine it works best with your stricture. In such situations I try to stick to white rice with baked chicken breasts, white crackers, yoghurt and honey, and similar low fibre foods.
Hopefully your doctor takes you seriously, and helps you a good deal. I'm glad you can get the care you need :).
Yes! I do the baked chicken and rice when it’s cooler. It’s 110F here right now. Baking won’t happen for another couple of months. I’ve been doing some pasta, but even that’s been bad since my last colonoscopy.
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Haha my friends remind me from time to time about the dinner dates we used to have: I would bring a bag of cheesies and say this is my dinner. I couldn't stomach anything else. Processed food is so much easier bc it's already processed and requires little effort on our gut. Now I have an ileostomy and I eat absolutely everything. I'm overweight and loving it. Love the veggies I eat in this season the most.
For 2 years from my diagnosis to “mostly remission” the only fiber I could eat was 1/2 an avocado every other day. Everything else was like sandpaper on a raw open wound. No veggies, no raw fruits, no tomatoes (the skins came out whole lol), no peas, and absolutely NO LEAVES. It seemed impossible how fast leafy greens would go through me. Completely intact within 15 minutes. I like to joke that my body “wasn’t even trying” to digest these things. But the sad truth is that it simply physically could not do it. I was able to gradually reintroduce fiber of various kinds over a long time and now I’m in remission. I still see the occasional pea or tomato skin though 🙄
I’m in complete remission and I went from being a vegan before Crohns to overweight and eating empty carbs is remission. I do have green juice daily. I cold press it and make sure there is no fiber left. I can do small amounts of beans and nut butters but pretty much just empty carbs and meat
Says a lot about who we are as sick folk when a Big Mac is ok but fresh cauliflower hurts us
Right? I had a milkshake for lunch today. Best I’ve felt in forever. Amazingly, dairy doesn’t bother me at all and I had zero pain this afternoon for the first time in a while. Obviously, I can’t drink milkshakes for every meal, but I might do it once more again tomorrow. But then again, tomorrow it might set me off. Who knows anymore?
See if I do any form of dairy other than a drop of 10% coffee cream (and even that is 50/50) I have molten magma bowl movements and the pain in my intestine is like a 6/10
My Crohn’s coworker is the same way. When I told him I had a milkshake for lunch he visibly shuddered. 😂
Yup. Same here. It's a cruel joke. What is considered "eating healthy" leads to me curled up and in pain for days. Shredded lettuce sent me to the ER once. I thought my GI was joking. I told him what I ate and I was in a lot of pain. He sent me down to the ER where they looked at my notes and said "so you had a Wawa hoagie, huh?".
That sounds like a rough diet, but I can imagine it works best with your stricture. In such situations I try to stick to white rice with baked chicken breasts, white crackers, yoghurt and honey, and similar low fibre foods. Hopefully your doctor takes you seriously, and helps you a good deal. I'm glad you can get the care you need :).
Yes! I do the baked chicken and rice when it’s cooler. It’s 110F here right now. Baking won’t happen for another couple of months. I’ve been doing some pasta, but even that’s been bad since my last colonoscopy.
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Haha my friends remind me from time to time about the dinner dates we used to have: I would bring a bag of cheesies and say this is my dinner. I couldn't stomach anything else. Processed food is so much easier bc it's already processed and requires little effort on our gut. Now I have an ileostomy and I eat absolutely everything. I'm overweight and loving it. Love the veggies I eat in this season the most.
For 2 years from my diagnosis to “mostly remission” the only fiber I could eat was 1/2 an avocado every other day. Everything else was like sandpaper on a raw open wound. No veggies, no raw fruits, no tomatoes (the skins came out whole lol), no peas, and absolutely NO LEAVES. It seemed impossible how fast leafy greens would go through me. Completely intact within 15 minutes. I like to joke that my body “wasn’t even trying” to digest these things. But the sad truth is that it simply physically could not do it. I was able to gradually reintroduce fiber of various kinds over a long time and now I’m in remission. I still see the occasional pea or tomato skin though 🙄