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So this is my first post here, just discovered this forum the other day.
Long story short, I was diagnosed at 14 (now 28), had it really bad up until 2nd year of college until I started on Imuran. Took that for about 2 years (can't remember why I stopped)... haven't really had definite Crohn' symptoms until about a month ago (looking at 4-5 years of remission).
I've been trying to think what could bring it out of remission. For the few months leading up to this flare I was concentrating on putting on some muscle mass. On lifting days I would take a muscle gainer which had a mix of whey and casein protein. For the past month or so I was also taking a protein mix of whey & casein on non-lifting days (before that was just whey isolates).
Does anyone have experience with casein and Crohn's? I was packing on a lot of cals trying to gain some mass, and I'm wondering if the casein protein in particular did me in.
Last summer, I first tried straight casein protein by itself one night. The next day (out of nowhere) I had extremely bloody diarrhea which went away after 1 day.
These mixes don't say the ratio of whey to casein, but I know they do have casein in it.
I have an appointment with my old GI at the end of this month, unfortunately I couldn't be seen sooner. It's probably been since 2009 that I've actually seen a G.I. but I didn't really experience any notable symptoms over the past few years so I didn't bother with checking in. Hopefully I don't get some really bad news! I know he's going to want to scope me ASAP since I'm so overdue!
Long story short, I was diagnosed at 14 (now 28), had it really bad up until 2nd year of college until I started on Imuran. Took that for about 2 years (can't remember why I stopped)... haven't really had definite Crohn' symptoms until about a month ago (looking at 4-5 years of remission).
I've been trying to think what could bring it out of remission. For the few months leading up to this flare I was concentrating on putting on some muscle mass. On lifting days I would take a muscle gainer which had a mix of whey and casein protein. For the past month or so I was also taking a protein mix of whey & casein on non-lifting days (before that was just whey isolates).
Does anyone have experience with casein and Crohn's? I was packing on a lot of cals trying to gain some mass, and I'm wondering if the casein protein in particular did me in.
Last summer, I first tried straight casein protein by itself one night. The next day (out of nowhere) I had extremely bloody diarrhea which went away after 1 day.
These mixes don't say the ratio of whey to casein, but I know they do have casein in it.
I have an appointment with my old GI at the end of this month, unfortunately I couldn't be seen sooner. It's probably been since 2009 that I've actually seen a G.I. but I didn't really experience any notable symptoms over the past few years so I didn't bother with checking in. Hopefully I don't get some really bad news! I know he's going to want to scope me ASAP since I'm so overdue!
