I miss tomatoes! Stupid Stricture!

[shazamataz]

Hey all,

5 weeks of Low Residue is getting mildly tedious for me, especially since I am working on cutting out starches too - a semi-attempt at the SCD.

It's hard to get one's head around low fibre when we are always told how important it is and that a low fibre diet is thought to be one of the causes of Crohns!

Anyway, this leads to the ultimate question (or 2):

If one developes a stricture but it is only recent because blockage has never been an issue before, is it likely this stricture will go away, ie not be scar tissue but just inflammation?

I am really hoping so.

I really want to have tomatoes again. It's amazing how much I eat them and put them in stuff. makes the SCD hard also.

One more:

The SCD seems a great idea. I totally 'get' it but it is so very restrictive, especially to someone with a nut allergy. So, anyone found that doing it MOSTLY helps?

Now back to the crapping your pants in public posts - you guys are hilarious and wonderful to be so upbea about such horrors!

s

 

[cheeky]

haha i'm supposed to be on the low residue diet right now, i managed to stick to it for 2 days and then failed miserably.

ugh. it seems easier to not eat at all, at least then i don't get as hungry.

btw, i read about the low residue diet, and i thought that you can still have a few vegetables just very low amounts.... and my doctor said 'nothing stringy'
but i guess tomatoes are acidic too? i dunno about all this stuff. lol

 

[shazamataz]

By my understanding the tomato problem is mainly with the pips. I was also told no skin. So you don't have much left of a tomato if you take those things away.

I am behaving as too scared not to, but mushy veges and nothing with skin is hard work!

 

[kenny]

I'm hoping I will be ok with spaghetti sauce when I get to that point. I'm not up to pasta yet. The only solids I have tried are cottage cheese, cream-O-wheat, cheese cake, rice pudding and mashed canned peaches.

But we got to be able to eat spaghetti sauce! I guess even stewed tomatoes still have the seeds in them.

 

[MD24]

Dr told me i can only have tomato juice but can't eat it or any other vegetable or fruit, i can only have filtrated juice which sucks

 

[cheeky]

so weird, i thought i'd get more specific information as to what foods i can and can't eat.... but all i was told was 'low residue diet, so no stringy food'.... and i had to look up the info online... not sure if it's even the right info.

does anyone here know where i can get correct info about the low residue diet?

would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[shazamataz]

Hi Cheeky,
just look on the net. I found various sources said mostly the same stuff.

Most important is to avoid any whole grainy bits, seeds and skins as they don;t digest well and may block up if u have a stricture.

Also stuff which is very fibrous. I am just making sure all my veges are really well cooked so a lot of it already broken down.

One specific I was told is to avoid cabbage - no problem - I don't like it anyway!

Also the tomatoes and onions (i wonder because they make you gassy?).

However I have used onion when well cooked in recipe or soup and they seem fine for me.

Low res is all based on avoiding things being too bulky and messing with your stricture by my understanding, so eating small amounts more regularly is also best - the other night i was running late and starving and ate a HUGE dinner and spent the rest of the evening doubled over with gas and ended up throwing it all up (not normal for me at all)!

Gosh isn;t this an interesting and challenging journey for us all!!??

ka kite
shaz

 

[cheeky]

thanks shazamataz! yes i did find some stuff online, but appreciate the few extra tips you suggested.