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making changes!
right....last tuesday after telling my doctor how bad my crohn's was he decided to keep me in hospital for a few days and give me hydrocortizone steroid injections, a liquid diet through an nasogastric tube (that i still have to have inserted even though im now at home!), and do some tests to see if he wanted to put me on remicade or give me surgery. after feeling no benefit from the steroid injections over the few days and being told surgery isnt a good option as i have far too much inflammtion in patches all over my bowel rather than in one place he decided to keep me in for a week, continuing the liquid diet to see if i felt any better. a week on and no real changes but the hospital was just depressing me so much i decided to tell my doctor i was beginning to feel better and was more than ready to go home, he said ok but i have to continue the liquid diet through the nasogastric tube for a week or so. i am seeing him on tuesday to discuss whether or not i should go on remicade.
anyway ive just decided i need to do more to help my crohn's. ive never really changed my diet at all except making it low residue once or twice and i now realise if i want to get better i need to do more. i am currently on azathioprine, omeprazole, pentasa and prednisolone but am taking no pro-biotics or multi-vitamins and don't really no what foods i should avoid and which one i should be looking out for. ive been through alot of the old posts on the forum but found it hard to get all the information together.
bascially what im saying is what changes have you made in your lifestyle that have benefited your crohn's? what pro-biotics and other supplements do you take? i've relied on my doctors and the tablets they give me for too long and have never been in remission. i no certain things work for certain people but any advice or tips any of you have would be greatly appreciated.
right....last tuesday after telling my doctor how bad my crohn's was he decided to keep me in hospital for a few days and give me hydrocortizone steroid injections, a liquid diet through an nasogastric tube (that i still have to have inserted even though im now at home!), and do some tests to see if he wanted to put me on remicade or give me surgery. after feeling no benefit from the steroid injections over the few days and being told surgery isnt a good option as i have far too much inflammtion in patches all over my bowel rather than in one place he decided to keep me in for a week, continuing the liquid diet to see if i felt any better. a week on and no real changes but the hospital was just depressing me so much i decided to tell my doctor i was beginning to feel better and was more than ready to go home, he said ok but i have to continue the liquid diet through the nasogastric tube for a week or so. i am seeing him on tuesday to discuss whether or not i should go on remicade.
anyway ive just decided i need to do more to help my crohn's. ive never really changed my diet at all except making it low residue once or twice and i now realise if i want to get better i need to do more. i am currently on azathioprine, omeprazole, pentasa and prednisolone but am taking no pro-biotics or multi-vitamins and don't really no what foods i should avoid and which one i should be looking out for. ive been through alot of the old posts on the forum but found it hard to get all the information together.
bascially what im saying is what changes have you made in your lifestyle that have benefited your crohn's? what pro-biotics and other supplements do you take? i've relied on my doctors and the tablets they give me for too long and have never been in remission. i no certain things work for certain people but any advice or tips any of you have would be greatly appreciated.
