No solid food?

Hey all

Was curious what the deal is with not being able to tolerate any solid foods. In my Crohn's tenure (6 years), I've never not been able to eat anything solid. It usually was narrowed down a bit to a certain set of "trigger" foods. So this is a whole new and *exciting* development. I'm trying to grasp just how bad this is. I feel ok otherwise, just a bit tired. I can tolerate a full liquid diet and noodles in soups. Anything beyond that I get pretty intense crampy pain, rumbles, and liquid diarrhea. Sometimes this is within an hour of eating, other times it takes a while and wakes me up early in the morning to hit the bathroom. No blood from what I can tell.

I'm not on any meds at this time. My most previous med was Humira, which worked very well. I went off of it about 6 months ago. My last GI appt was a week ago, and at that I felt fine. This hit me Monday and I'm still going strong unfortunately. I've put myself on a full liquid diet as of yesterday, including protein shakes. I tried to eat tuna and crackers for dinner, which normally is a safety food, and I was in the bathroom in quite a bit of pain within 2 hours.

I haven't called my doc yet. I have a scope in a few weeks and figured I'd try to get this under control by then, and then we could discuss this nonsense. Er I mean fun.

Thanks for any tips.

Have you tried to puree food and eat that? That's what I've been doing lately. Put in lots of liquid if you need to - I usually put in some broth.

Dang, why didn't I think of baby food?? I've been pureeing a banana with my protein shake and that seems to be ok.

How are you doing pb4?

Beta diid you try mashed potatos ? I rice them so there is no fiber and that does pretty good for me when no other real food does.. Hope you feel better soon.

I'm doing okay Beta, definitely better than I have in the past, the probiotics, fibre supplements, bee propolis, omegas 3-6-9, vitamins A, C-Calcium Ascorbate, chamomile tea and altering my diet avoiding all processed foods/beverages, fast-foods, junky foods have definitely helped, I still have urgency issues but less frequency thanks to the above mentioned regime, although, during my monthly cycles it seems like all he!! breaks loose and I mean loose, my normally firm stools get softer and the frequency and urgency exacerbate LOL, aren't you glad you asked??? LOL

Are you still biking regularly? I'm still exercising regularly, I believe it also has positive impacts on my crohn's and overall health.

Oh, what a great question tbw :) Because I'm stubborn and thought hey this stuff has been under control for almost a year now, why not see if I can go without meds? This was discussed with my doc prior to my stopping, though he wasn't completely on board. He wanted to move slower than I did. So now I get to let him say I told you so :)