Short Happy Post, Feeling better

Heya Gang,

Just a quick FYI, cause I posted some pretty depressing stuff last week about my condition.

I started drinking homemade smoothies last week, just frozen fruit, yoplait yogurt, honey and vannila soy milk and after once again cutting my meat intake down to almost nothing, I am feeling better. I am eating litttle half sandwhichs, and ramen type noodles for my solids. I am starting to feel like i can move up the solid food table, just waiting for that one day where my cravings are so vast for food I not only will eat but will want to

I know I am getting better, because I am beginning to think about fast food, I havent nor will I eat it, but I am thinking about it, something I never do when really sick. I keep thinking about hamburgers.

My hemm's are cutting down from razors to "good ol fashioned" pain levels. I got all my bills paid, we actually have some extra money this month.

My digestion has gone from "cement mixer" mode to "good ol fashioned" discomfort pain.

Often we write posts about our pain and alot of us write about feeling better.

I am an offender of not telling you when I feel better.

So for today and hopefully continuing a trend into the future, I am getting better.

PS:

I have to confess something, after my throat tear couple months ago healed, I drank some coffee for about 1 month in october, at the end of the month I felt like I had been through a coffee grinder.

YES. I KNOW, no coffee, I should never have it, but I couldnt stay awake and I was having constipation problems, I thought it would help push things along, wrong, it didnt.

Feel free to beat me with your "No Coffee" Sticks, I deserve that.

Thanks

Jon

OMG

I was making french roast generic store brand, with vanilla soy milk, sugar and cinnamon sugar, a sugar, caffiene, coffee grind lattee of whatever they call them, make em at home obviously.

It was a glorious month of delicious coffee, and stupid, I dont think it is any coincidence, for me anyway, that 1 month took me from healed throat to horribly sick intestines.

Oh but that coffee was good, there will not be a repeat of the coffee incident, in fact strangley, in 40 + years of life, that was my very fisrt time drinking any coffee ever, I was a soda (Coke) junkie all my life, quit soda in 2000 when the Crohns hit.

Frankly imo, even though people can and do drink soda their whole lives, My mom does still and she is in her 70's. I think the whole soda industry should be disbanded, that stuff is toxic.

I have never looked it up but I  wonder if there have been any science studies of the long term effects of soda based drinks on your GI system.

Sorry, just actually starting to feel awake this week, making me write to much.

Later

Jon

I have found that when I'm thinking a lot about hamburgers, it's my body's way of telling me I need the iron. You don't have to get fast food to get that red meat fix. If you feel up to it, you can make a nice lean grilled london broil, and just eat a bit of it. Share the rest with your lucky friends.

I'm so glad you're in much better spirits Jon!! It's pretty safe to say that we all know what a rollercoaster ride this disease is so don't ever feel you can't vent when necessary, we're all entitled and we all understand.

I've been drinking coffee too. I went so long not drinking any coffee or only teeny teeny amounts. Why did I start again? Because it tastes sooooo good with cream and honey and helps me stay awake. The last few days, I've been cutting back again, though, and eventually I'll stop altogether.

Plus, a nice frothy Starbucks cappuccino with choc. drizzle has been my fav, and I don't want to give it up! lol

Overall, I prefer green tea (even decaf.), and chamomile with honey.

And just want to add that at least when I order the cappuccino, I ask for Lactose free. ;-P