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Posted 8/5/2011 2:13 AM (GMT 0)
I should kick myself in the butt, I swear! I knew cherries had a bad effect with my hostile colon. The last time I had cherries they went right through me within 10 hours after eating them. I chalked it up to them being a little too soft and past its ripeness.

Today I ate them again, they were firm and ripe, and 7 hours later they went right through me. So I guess I can't eat them.

Has anyone had a bad reaction towards cherries?

Anyways, I took Metamucil to firm me up. (Quincy convinced me, thank you dear!) I hope I'm better by Saturday. I'm on Wedding duty. Thankfully I'm not a bridesmaid.

Update from my last topic: Before this I was normal. The proctosone cream worked well. Little to no pain today.


Hope everyone's night is great!
Posted 8/5/2011 2:57 AM (GMT 0)
Yep, raw cherries disagree with my colon, too-- though I'm all right with a small piece of cherry pie occasionally, cherry jam, or cherry juice mixed in with other fruit juices. The season for fresh cherries is short where I live-- so I don't have that much temptation, lol! I do fine with blueberries, melon, apples, pears, bananas, & mango, TG. / Old Hat (30 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)
Posted 8/5/2011 3:35 AM (GMT 0)
lol, yes everything agreeable with our temperamental colons is on the fine list. It usually has to be something we love that we can't eat. I'm glad I'm not the only one wanting to kick that blasted organ.
Posted 8/5/2011 6:10 AM (GMT 0)
i can eat sour cherries - but not sweet ones.

the sweet ones give me a lot of gas, and then lose stools. in small quantities, they are ok, but if i pass 300 gr...then the dance begins. sour cherries i can eat more, like 500-700 gr (at a single meal and not combined with anything else).
Posted 8/5/2011 7:01 AM (GMT 0)
yup, cherries hurt me as well...as do other "hard" stuff to digest, blueberries, apple/pear peel, dried fruit, raisins

meh, who needs cherries anyway :)
Posted 8/5/2011 10:38 AM (GMT 0)
I love cherries also and keep eyeing them in the grocery store but so far have resisted because of the results they would bring. UC has helped me develop a will of steel except sometimes ice cream calls my name :-).

You know how some people plan their drinking benders for the weekend? I look at my calendar and see whether next day's schedule will allow some ice cream today lol. Girls gotta live.
Posted 8/5/2011 11:47 AM (GMT 0)
Cherries do cause me to have a loose BM or two, but I don't avoid them because of that. I know that they do it, but I love them so much that I eat them anyway. This happened long before I ever got UC, though. I think it's a "normal" reaction to cherries.

Remember that foods can cause symptoms that are unrelated to UC, and that just because a food will cause some loose poop doesn't mean it will cause a flare.
Posted 8/5/2011 12:05 PM (GMT 0)
Remember that foods can cause symptoms that are unrelated to UC, and that just because a food will cause some loose poop doesn't mean it will cause a flare

Maybe so. But I know that eating verboten foods gives me flare symptoms. When the doctor checked me out with tests and a colonoscopy he said I definitely had IBD. When I stopped eating triggering foods the flare symptoms disappeared. Blood tests and scopes were clean. When I eat triggering foods again flare symptoms return.
Posted 8/5/2011 1:09 PM (GMT 0)

fruitgirl said...
Remember that foods can cause symptoms that are unrelated to UC, and that just because a food will cause some loose poop doesn't mean it will cause a flare
BabeintheWoods replied:
Maybe so. But I know that eating verboten foods gives me flare symptoms. When the doctor checked me out with tests and a colonoscopy he said I definitely had IBD. When I stopped eating triggering foods the flare symptoms disappeared. Blood tests and scopes were clean. When I eat triggering foods again flare symptoms return.


I soooo totally agree. It seems like common sense to me that our bodies give us signals when they have problems and we should heed them. Keep ignoring them and you'll be headed downhill fast, call it whatever you want. For me the biggest puzzle has been identifying each and every food/drink that creates problems and then avoiding them. Hard to do when the list is so long but since the alternative is very strong drugs with side effects it's not really a choice is it?
Posted 8/5/2011 1:14 PM (GMT 0)
Cherrys don't bother my colon - I did swallow a pit the other day and my MIL told me they were poisonous so i looked it up and they are! I don't think one would hurt you but just don't swallow the pitis !!
Posted 8/5/2011 1:36 PM (GMT 0)
I think you guys might be misinterpreting what I said...I did not say that food cannot cause flares, because I don't believe that. Nobody really knows what causes flares. What I said was that a few loose poops due to a food doesn't mean you WILL flare. Heck, I have loose poops because of food on a fairly regular basis and I've been in remission two years. It's a "normal" function of the colon for some foods to cause loose poop.
Posted 8/5/2011 4:12 PM (GMT 0)

imagardener2 said...

You know how some people plan their drinking benders for the weekend? I look at my calendar and see whether next day's schedule will allow some ice cream today lol. Girls gotta live.

small aside. I've been enjoying Soy and Coconut ice cream recently, simply Amazing. I can't tell the difference. Looking for dairy, soy, gluten free option? Check out Coconut Bliss. http://coconutbliss.com/. Someone must have heard my calls for help :)
Posted 8/5/2011 4:24 PM (GMT 0)

I love cherries... I just had a bag of Rainier cherries, which I devour whenever I can get them. And Bing cherries too. Yeah, they make me "go" more, but I don't care- I figure it's a decent enough way to get some fiber, keep things moving along in there! I don't avoid food that cause me to have looser stools- I find being constipated much worse than an extra bathroom trip or 2. Heck, I'm in the bathroom ALL THE TIME anyway, who cares??? And YES, Coconut Bliss is so amazingly good. Watch that saturated fat content though- it's staggerignly high. I think the sat. fat from veggies is not as bad as sat. fat from animal sources though???? It's worth it, so good. I don't like soy ice cream, but coconut milk ice cream is pretty darned good.

Posted 8/5/2011 4:39 PM (GMT 0)

Eva Lou said...
I think the sat. fat from veggies is not as bad as sat. fat from animal sources though???? It's worth it, so good. I don't like soy ice cream, but coconut milk ice cream is pretty darned good.

Doesn't coconut have sat? And yes, sat fat from animals is worse. Not so much from veggies though. I think they're the good kind that our body can process easier.


With cherries, even if I eat a little, they go right through me within 12 hours. I'm not meaning loose stools. I'm meaning chunky, watery stool. Oh well. Something to avoid.
Posted 8/5/2011 4:53 PM (GMT 0)
Perhaps it is the sorbitol, which is found in stone fruits, that is bothering you. Sorbitol can cause gastrointestinal distress.
Posted 8/5/2011 8:04 PM (GMT 0)
yes, I agree with the sorbitol or fructose...it's not "digested/broken down/absorbed or used by the body" at all and can cause softer stool. That's why it's suggested to eat fruit when one has constipation.

Keep it in perspective, and I don't believe food causes flares.

You will one day remember what helps your bms, and when you have constipation or harder stool, eat cherries.

Oh, we all have a limit. ten might be OK, twenty,, not so much.

q
Posted 8/6/2011 12:39 AM (GMT 0)
I try and buy them and put them out for patients every 2 or 3 weeks. Usually get a big bag of the Rainier cherries. I eat my fair share and don't notice much from doing that.
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