Since February of last year, I had been suffering from Rectal Bleeding. For months me and my mother believed that it was hemorrhoids since the blood was always fresh and I didn't actually feel off in my gut either, at least until late may-early June. It was then that me and my mother finally went to see a Surgeon to have a colonoscopy scheduled for July of that year. The colonoscopy came and went and I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. Though I have been on 2 Mezavant twice a day and bleeding has been reduced as a result, I still felt like shit, having had pain in my left side and just feeling off, wishing to stay around the house more than I do going any place else. I can only handle 1 Iron pill a day since 2 gives me acid reflux and my blood count isn't as high as it should be, even if I overall feel okay with just taking 1 (i'm looking into Iron Injections instead). I have also lost a number of pounds as well but I believe this is also partially due to me cut down/out foods such as those with gluten in them like Pasta which I love so much even if I can't say such foods affect me adversely but I do anyway since hearing about the SCD and similar diets (I even have a copy of "Breaking the Vicious Cycle") and how it's benefited many people with what I have and then some. I recently saw a dietitian because of my weight loss and she recommended me not to go on with the SCD and that though complex carbohydrates such as anything whole-wheat during a flare-up period are bad to have, I need them anyway in order to put on weight since the way I've been eating could be considered a starvation diet. She stated that even though the diet may work for some people, it won't work for everyone and that unless there are foods which I can't tolerate, I should still consume them if I want and or substitute them with just as good alternatives (ie I drink Almond Milk instead of the regular kind). However she came off as a b#$%h to me the way her personality was, thinking she knew it all the way she scoffed the book since she's a dietitian you see, not a Biochemist like Elaine Gottschall was so f-her is all I can say since according to her, anyone can write a book with info which could be perceived as misleading. As of mid-March, though, I haven't had pain anymore on my left side and though my blood count was in the 80's because I went down to one Iron instead of taking 2 (my bleeding even almost virtually subsided entirely until April), I felt more energetic and went at least 3-5 times a day instead of the max prior to that being more 5-8ish, wanting to simply get outside, even bringing myself to enjoy a green beer on St. Patties day for the hell of it even if it is Illegal on the diet!
I have been doing probiotics since February of this year (4 billion Lactobacillus Acidophilus daily) but I dunno if I should increase my intake of it or not since it doesn't seem to be doing much IMO.
I have also been getting 2000 IU of Vitamin D since January since I found out through research that there is a correlation between Vitamin D Deficiency and IBDs such as Ulcerative Colitis and I had known I was deficient in such a thing since October of 2011 but I didn't bother with supplementation since I didn't know any better, sadly. I've been taking it in pill form but wonder if I should go to drops or up my intake to 4000 a day since I don't know if it's making much of a difference either.
What's weird with my Colitis though is that I never actually had diarrhea only. Eversince the diagnosis, I would still have solid stools even if they were miniscule in the amounts I went, even before I started following the SCD partially. Even during the last week of April, when my bowel movements increased to every half-hour (I dunno if it was just die-off or a flare-up, though, since a number of symptoms I had matched up with a die-off reaction), the stools themselves still had solidity to them, even if they were miniscule in the amounts I went.
So what do you guys think I should do? I mean I thought that cutting down on/out the complex carbs was making a difference but I've been losing weight, as well.
Thank You.
PS. Are Iron injections REALLY that painful? Everyone keeps telling me this but I don't believe it.
PSS. Honey is a monosaccharide, not a disaccharide but the Dietitian said there was no difference when I argued with her since it's all sugar when I mentioned using it as a substitute to the actual stuff since it's SCD legal (I prefer it nowadays anyway). Was she wrong or was I wrong?
I have been doing probiotics since February of this year (4 billion Lactobacillus Acidophilus daily) but I dunno if I should increase my intake of it or not since it doesn't seem to be doing much IMO.
I have also been getting 2000 IU of Vitamin D since January since I found out through research that there is a correlation between Vitamin D Deficiency and IBDs such as Ulcerative Colitis and I had known I was deficient in such a thing since October of 2011 but I didn't bother with supplementation since I didn't know any better, sadly. I've been taking it in pill form but wonder if I should go to drops or up my intake to 4000 a day since I don't know if it's making much of a difference either.
What's weird with my Colitis though is that I never actually had diarrhea only. Eversince the diagnosis, I would still have solid stools even if they were miniscule in the amounts I went, even before I started following the SCD partially. Even during the last week of April, when my bowel movements increased to every half-hour (I dunno if it was just die-off or a flare-up, though, since a number of symptoms I had matched up with a die-off reaction), the stools themselves still had solidity to them, even if they were miniscule in the amounts I went.
So what do you guys think I should do? I mean I thought that cutting down on/out the complex carbs was making a difference but I've been losing weight, as well.
Thank You.
PS. Are Iron injections REALLY that painful? Everyone keeps telling me this but I don't believe it.
PSS. Honey is a monosaccharide, not a disaccharide but the Dietitian said there was no difference when I argued with her since it's all sugar when I mentioned using it as a substitute to the actual stuff since it's SCD legal (I prefer it nowadays anyway). Was she wrong or was I wrong?
