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Posted 10/30/2015 2:00 PM (GMT 0)
I have been off for a week now and my tummy has settled down.

After weeks of Diarrhea I had fried Fish and Chips and suddenly my tummy settled down, I repeated this meal and have continued with high fat, greasy, stodgy food and everything has settled down. This surely doesn't sound like Chron's?

I am still due my 6th surgery following perianal abscess/fistula and a Colonoscopy to check for internal problems. However I am now starting to wonder if Colonoscopy is a waste of time now!
Posted 10/30/2015 2:07 PM (GMT 0)
What were you eating before?

It's not entirely surprising. A high fat, stodgy meal takes a long time to digest. For me it probably would calm things down for a few hours.

I wouldn't skip the colonoscopy.
Posted 10/30/2015 3:27 PM (GMT 0)
I was on low residue diet, which calmed things down a bit but was still getting diarrhea 3-4 times daily.

Things still not entirely back to normal, but a lot better since reverting to greasy food. I will have the Colonoscopy.
Posted 10/30/2015 6:46 PM (GMT 0)
I agree with NCOT, sometimes the greasy food just takes longer to digest. If you have Crohn's and are flaring, a low-residue diet will only HELP, it won't actually treat. When I first got Crohn's, I pretty much lived off of saltines for a few weeks (until I got the colonoscopy, meds, etc.) and was STILL having bloody diarrhea over 20 times each day. I'm glad you're going to still do the colonoscopy. I can't remember, have they done stool samples to test for things like salmonella, c. diff., giardia, etc.?
Posted 11/2/2015 7:51 PM (GMT 0)
No stool samples, only bloods which showed raised liver function.

I went away from stodgy diet today and ate a yoghurt and chicken bone broth with carrots and leeks in it. Result - four trips to the bathroom with diarrhea (not bloody but some blood wiping). I haven't had a normal formed stool since April. So the jury is out!

The other thing I get is pain, mostly in the right but also left of my abdomen.
Posted 11/2/2015 9:12 PM (GMT 0)
What were the surgeries for if you don't have Crohn's? I don't think a couple decent days and a few fatty meals makes up for years and surgeries, fistulas, biopsies... Food never had much impact on my IBD. I would eat healthy or eat fast food and it didn't matter much. I would have good days and bad days but there was little logic to it. The less I ate, the less I was in the toilet. That was the only logic that was 100% accurate for me. By the end, I didn't eat. That helped but I wouldn't say, I don't have IBD. I still had it, i just didn't have as many symptoms when my intestines were empty.
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