Help?

[Dras]

help?

:yfrown:Hey, as a few of you may know, I haven't been doing well lately.

Phoned my GI who told me to up my dosage of ento up to 9mg.
Have been taking it for 4 weeks or more even, with no change in my condition.

So now i'm going on an Ensure plus diet to see if it helps me any.
Would like to know if anyone has had any positive results doing it.

Thanx.

 

[lynx]

I have been on BOOST for a while now and it is basically the same thing. Reading the nutrition book I got they say that going on a liquid diet helps give the bowels a rest and lets them heal that is one reason they put people on TPN at the hospital. So in theory it should work.
I don't know if it is working for me or not because I'm eating foods too while taking the Boost. I may have to increase my steroids as well because I don't think I am getting any better and I am on a taper thing with prednisone. I hope it works for you though.

 

[Dras]

Hey Lynx, sorry that I havent replied on your pm yet. Thanx for the info, I already bought the ensure, now just wondering whats the best tactic, going cold turkey on food or slowly easing myself into it?

 

[Jenny06xx]

Hey Hun I've been on the ensure plus diet still am in a way , but all liquids seem fine with me apart from alcohol lol so if your like me an fancy something savoury have some soup with or without bits up to u I'd go without an u can also have the juice from a stew or similar . Hope this helps a little u can just have a gutsfull of milkshakes lol but remember there's hardly any calories or vitamins in most normal soups so u can either get them from a health food shop or get some build up soup prescribed off your doc I did but is minging lol
Jen xx

 

[Bloom]

Hi Dras,

I have been on Ensure Plus for the last few months now and would tell you to go ahead as i think i would be dead now if i hadnt. I am slowly trying to eat normal food and i can tell you that ensure plus has saved my life. The strawberry flavour is about the best dont put them in the fridge keep them at room temp and use the straw its easier to get down.

Hope that helps.

 

[Dras]

Thanx so much, that helped a lot!!

I've started doing ensure for breakfast, but still having soft low res meals for lunch and dinner. Starting tomorrow i'll do ensure breakfast and lunch and then the week after start an all liquid diet.