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    Best IBD Centre in US--Your Recommendation for Young Adults

    Hi, My young adult son needs a diagnosis. He is also a professional beginning his career. We are thinking of trying a week-long stay at the best US IBD centre for young adults to see if he can get a diagnosis and treatment started. He has had IBD-like symptoms for about three years, with the...
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    Non-IBD, non-celiac reasons for bleeding, villi blunting, in young adult?

    Well, this a post I had hoped never to have to write, but I knew in my heart that it would eventually happen. My adult son is ill. He is in his mid-twenties now. We have no diagnosis yet, but we have started on that journey again. I say again because when he was a child he had a...
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    Depression (or IBD?) in comic form

    I just had to share this: http://www.akimbocomics.com/comic/2010-10-04-Eat_Shit_And_Die_164.jpg
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    Support for SunshineSmile

    Many of us have read about SunshineSmile's struggle for a diagnosis while she maintained her optimism for a healthy future and while she shared her positive attitude with us through her videos. The group on the undiagnosed forum mentioned that she has been in hospital for a while now. I...
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    Elemental and Elimination Success

    This post is all about the success!:dance: I will summarize what my problems were before this treatment success, my previous attempts with this treatment, and some of the problems I had along the way in a later post. I resumed a full liquid elemental diet (VivonexPlus) for two weeks in July...
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    Pancreatitis-how was yours diagnosed?

    I was doing quite well with an elimination diet after enteral nutrition (EN) until the middle of Sept. Then I started getting more fatigued, light-headed, and had more difficulty with thinking activities. Bloods showed low iron and TIBC. Then two weeks ago I started getting nausea again, then...
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    FeraMax for anemia--anyone?

    I'm anemic and I have been given a prescription for iron injections. When I went to the pharmacy to pick up the vials, the pharmacist suggested I try FeraMax, a new (to Canada) oral non-prescription iron tablet. He said that it had fewer GI side effects than the old iron tablets that were hard...
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    Do you get tired of eating?

    Don't get me wrong--I enjoy food, especially after being on a liquid elemental diet. And I am grateful for the food that I do get to eat (including some Thanksgiving dinner foods), but I am TIRED OF CHEWING! I used to be overweight and I would never have thought that I would be tired of eating...
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    What I'm thankful for...

    Because it is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, I thought that I would start a thread about what we are thankful for. ...the fact that I get to eat solid food for dinner today. This past Christmas I was on a liquid formula, so I couldn't eat the dinner that my family helped me to create...
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    Non-dairy choco pudding

    I have recently tested chocolate on my elimination diet. I can eat very small amounts of really good chocolate that has no dairy or additives. So, of course, I needed a choco dessert that I can eat. Melt 1/2 cup of really good choco chips with 1 tablespoon of water. Meanwhile, whip up 1 package...
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    Failed elemental diet

    I gave been on a liquid elemental diet (VivonexPlus) intermittently since early December. Ten weeks was the longest time. I go into remission when I am on the elemental, but keep relapsing when I move to food: after two weeks on full elimination diet followed by one week of LOFFLEX diet; after...
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    Not eating, but not functioning either

    Hello, I probably have indeterminate IBD, meaning that my condition can't be diagnosed as either Crohn's or Ulcerative Colitis and that I have some symptoms and some pathology of each disease. My current problems started last spring. I have had some testing and hope to see a GI specialist...
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