Do you all know what trigers your CD flares??

we are all alittle different with crohns--my main flare was caused by a blockage in upper stomach 3 more since then,dairy products cause some
of mine also ''stress''sometimes allergies changing seasons,winter,summer so on--spicy foods at times--as i stated we are all alittle different with
crohns disease--hope this helps some-

if we knew then we'd have a cure

as peachypeach said, we're all different. you have to work out what triggers your flares for yourself unfortunately. super bummer.

I'm pretty new to all this. When you mean a flare do you mean just haveing a bad day with CD or do you mean a full relapse where you are in the bathroom and in major pain for weeks at a time? 

I realize we're all different.  I'm not that dumb.  

Just thought I would ask.  

Certain foods haven't triggered a flare for me. Basically when my body decides to flare, it flares. I have accepted the fact that I have to accept it for what it is...though it bites!

Certain foods can aggravate my flares, but doesn't make them worse. When I eat mexican I tend to have more blood in my poo than normal (and I love mexican)! I used to eat red meat a few years ago, until it made me RIDICULOUSLY sick and definitely aggravated my Crohn's.

Everytime I flare my mom tends to ask me, "What did you eat to make you flare?" and I simply have to explain that it wasn't what I ate, my body just decided to misbehave! Take Care!!

Caffeine will cause a flare for me. Can be coffee, tea, or cola. I imagine those caffeine-laden "energy drinks" would be very bad, but I've never tried them.

Anything that really irritates the intestinal wall would likely cause a flare. Some laxatives (ie Ducolax) will do that. No all laxatives are the "irritant" type. The kind they give you for colonoscopy prep are generally non-irritating.

Foods don't send me into a flare...I've only "flared" once since having Crohn's and so far that flare has lasted almost a year. Foods do aggravate my Crohn's when I'm already in a flare. I know a "true flare" is coming on when my ankles swell to the point I can't walk.

Back when I first started getting sick, not knowing what was going on, I now see I was in a MAJOR Crohn's flare. Just so happens at that same time my apartment became infested with mice - and the management kept calling me a LIAR until I started leaving the dead mice I caught on their doorstep! I can't STAND mice. These things were even visiting my BED!!!! It was awful and caused me EXCESSIVE stress. That was during the first flare and then I found out I had Crohn's.

I'd been doing quite well until last year when I built my first house. OMG...the stress of dealing with that was unbearable...things the builder promised that he never made good on...thousands of dollars WASTED...right around this time last year I was VERY stressed over an irrigation system that I didn't have any control over that was flooding my property. It was around that time I started getting into this flare I'm in now.

So MAYBE, just MAYBE, excessive stress is MY particular trigger!

I agree with Nanners.... I have good and bad days with CD... sometimes I'll have to go a few days on a liquid diet to let things calm down a bit....but a true flare for me means ending up in the hospital for a few weeks and being really sick for months on end. Last flare for me lasted about 8 months.

I actually hate it when people ask me what I ate, like that always is why someone flares. Kinda makes you feel like you also had to do something wrong in order to flare up, that your body just couldn't have decided to do it all by itself. Even on just a bad day, I can't always nail it to a food. Sometimes I can, but not always. I try to remember most people don't understand, but it gets annoying sometimes when you are constantly asked what you did wrong that triggered a flare.

Yes I HATE that also when you feel sick one day or are in a bit of pain one day and you are asked 'what did you do' 'what did you eat' 'are you suppose to eat that'. It is so frustrating!
My GI told me that diet will not make any difference to the real state of the disease and has nothing to do with it though a nutritious diet is helpful in restoring overall health and increases response to medication. In the begining it was nice to dream and listen to those telling me about diets that cured and I did try a few but reality kicked in as they didnt work for me.

i ate a pizza 2 weeks when i found out what sex of the baby my daughter was having ohhhhhhhhh how i wish i never now!!!!!!!!!might not get to egypt now one minute you can eat it the next you cant oh how i love this disease not!!!!!!!

I ate popcorn at the movie theater about 3 weeks ago and bled for almost 3 days.
The other day I was craving popcorn again....had it and was perfectly fine. ! Go figure. !