Hiya all this is my first post and i will try not to make you yawn!
right, stats are 37, woman, 5'4, 182 pounds. been sick for a year now.. after a gazillion tests the doctors say i have inflammatory bowel disease and colitis, and just for fun diverticula. what i am finding is that no matter what i eat i am in pain, get very bloated and blah, blah. so i have bought a juicer thinking if i do the liquid diet my colon wil have a rest and if i cause it not to work the pain will go. this is my theroy anyway. but i have read a bit about jucing being akin to a starvation diet. can anyone clue me in. i am not looking to juice to lose the 50 lbs. i just want my life back and to not be in massive pain. i am from CT. but married to a brit and been living in uk 5 years now. to say my doctors suck is an understatement. the on ei call buzz lightyear actually told me if i were home i'd of had surgery and been better but "we don't do that over here". any thoughts would be appreciated
Best tihing for your set of problems is a high fiber diet. It's easier to achieve with 2 or 3 doses of psyllium every day.
Start on Metamucil or a store generic that gives you around 4 grams of soluble psyllium fiber per tsp. and take it religiously.
Your goal is LARGE soft stools on a regular basis...that will allow you colon to heal as best it can.
An all fruit diet and colitis are a dreadful combination; don't even consider it. It will irritate your colon even more.
Have you had colonscopy and a lower GI series to rule out the SCARIER disease?
Best tihing for your set of problems is a high fiber diet. It's easier to achieve with 2 or 3 doses of psyllium every day.
Start on Metamucil or a store generic that gives you around 4 grams of soluble psyllium fiber per tsp. and take it religiously
so juicing is not the way to go? i can't do high fiber it would kill me. i went high fiber and vegetarian and i was in the hospital for a week..
You came in as I was editing, cupcake...no, don't juice! On the other hand, don't avoid fruit; some like bananas and avocados can be soothing to the GI tract.
see i don't see why juicing is bad lol. it's just like eating only not..if i make a giant salad and throw it all in the juicer isn't that the same thing.
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