elemental diet question

What are you drinking, out of interest? If it's Elemental 028, respect. I was on that for two weeks. It was meant to be a 6-week diet in total, but I'm afraid I couldn't take the cloying vomit taste of the drinks and being turned into a psycho from starvation and lack of dietary fats for any longer than a fortnight. In my case it didn't even help with my symptoms while I was on it (and at least for those two weeks I deffo did not touch anything solid). It decreased the stool volume - but it would. Other than that I still had fevers and abdominal pain. Can't speak for bleeding 'cos I didn't have that as a symptom.

From what I understand an elemental diet should work pretty quickly if you are going to see improvements on it - about a week or two. The diarrhoea is probably normal - how can it firm up without any fibre to bulk it up? It does sound like you've seen some noticeable improvement, so it's worth sticking with to the end if you can. As far as reintroducing food is concerned, don't do what I did and go and order a sandwich with chips. Your GI or dietitian should have given you guidelines on this. From what I remember offhand, introduce one new food at a time and give it two days; keep it if you have no bad reaction to it, junk it if you do.

Ah okay. It sounds like it falls somewhere in between Elemental 028 and Fortisip in the revolting drinks spectrum <_<.

(I used to be on Fortisip diets as well. Fortisips aren't elemental though.)

Yeah, I never had anything except liquid stool - there was just less of it. It also tended to be pretty dark, from what I remember - like a really dark brown.

Nah, I'm afraid I just snapped one day :-/ The timing for my elemental diet couldn't have been much worse, since my brother had come down to stay with us and that meant more trips out, etc. In retrospect I should have waited until he had gone, but I still don't think I would have lasted anything like the full 6 weeks. It wasn't so much the drinks tasted vile, though they did: it's more that the taste of each carton lingered in your mouth forever, and no amount of water could flush it out.

thanks tigerwolf. I am reintroducing foods today! How long did it take before your BMs went from being liquid on the elemental diet to being formed after reintroducing solid food? Was it a few days or pretty much the same day?

NCOT, I think we will agree to disagree. .

otaneresp - looking over my notes, it took at least 7 days to get to any sort of formed motion, and another week to settle into a routine.

Post Edited (tigerwolf) : 4/6/2017 5:51:30 AM (GMT-6)