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Before i was diagnosed i would maybe have 1 bar a chocolate a week but now i have about 5 bars maybe even more a day.
Does anyone have any cravings?
 
Thats funny. I thought it was only me. I have really strong candy cravings. I am not on Pred. Sometimes I am just super hungry for no real reason. Must be a Chrons thing?
 
I've always had chocolate cravings at night, and just one little square will hit the spot. But since my dx and starting the meds, my sugar cravings have been throughout the day.
 
When I was on pred it was starchy foods, particularly bread, that I craved. I would eat plain toast like it was going out of fashion. Now I do crave sugar most of the time, but I do try and limit it, especially as my weight is rapidly increasing!
 
Vegemite!!! I never used to eat that much of it, but now some days it's all I can think about! My theory is cause it's high in vitamin B, and I have very little B12...or maybe just cause it's yummy!
 
is it possible? i can blame this on Crohns?! i always thought i just had a HUGE sweet tooth! maybe it does have to do with this lovely disease....

"uhh, my Crohns says it's okay to have another bar of chocolate.."
 
I never had a sweet tooth before I got ill in January. Now I get real cravings for sweet things. I bake chocolate chip cookies every week so I have something yummy to eat everyday :)
 
I usually crave potato chips, which makes sense because I was told that my sodium levels are low. I also crave chocolate, although most chocolates hurt so I try to keep some safe chocolates on hand at all times. 3 Musketeers bars don't cause me any problems so that's usually my go-to. Yum! I think I'll have one right now! :)
 
I too thought it was just me! Before I was diagnosed I had trouble eating anything at all but plain rice and plain chicken(maybe some sweet and sour sauce if I wasn't too sick). But now I crave EVERYTHING!!!! But the worst craving I have is Baby Dill Pickles! I must have eaten about 7 jars since mid-late September! I can't get enough of them! I'm going to have one right now.... :p
 
this is an intersting thread......
I had major chocolate issues. You say no realy...... let me explain
I would hide chocolate in my locker at work nibble on it during the day, then I started hiding it in my boss's office. I was sneeking it coz I would eat 4-5 bars and day and then sneek peices too.
My favoriet drink was chocolate martinies, I wouldn't drink any other alcholic beverage. (so not good for the tummy)
I was ordering chocolate on line from different countries.... that gets expensive fast
I was getting up in the middle of the night and driving to a gas station to buy chocolate.
I can not eat just a square, or a few bites I eat the whole bag... no controll
all this and not on preg........

I had cocolate issues. so April 15th was scheduled for colonscopy. My guy went golfing with friends the day before. So i went to store, bought about $30 worth and ate till I was feeling sick. Drank the prep..... need I say what happened.....

I have been chocolate free since April 15th..... I miss is some, but I'm not going back.

Now my big crave is red meat..... but i just think its coz my irons low
 
After my surgery the only thing I wanted was mashed potatoes by them selves. yummy....umm now it's dark chocolate! Major difference there!
 
Chocolate, oh wonderful chocolate...Yeppers, it is a Crohn's thing (actually a possible magnesium deficiency). A spoonfull of Nutella is just about heaven on earth...
 
I love chocolate but it affects my crohns so I dont have much of it. But 4-5 bars a day??? Whoa, that can't be good.
 
Thanks Joan! I do get some strong sugar cravings, and salt ones too. I get them even when I am not flaring up.
 
So Im not the only one who gets up in the middle of the night for brownies....or kills 2 king size butterfingers as an afternoon snack....or goes to the store for milk and comes home with cookies and more butterfingers and no milk....good to know:)
 
I never ate desert until I met Pred

I thought it was just me on the pred. I have been off pred sense my eleostomy surgery in 06. The craving for sweets has never gone away. Bill Cosby says Chocolate cake is a diet food, I have to agree :)
 

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