What Diets ??

I have been with this illness a couple of years now, at one time I was close to death through lack of blood and my own stupidity.

Up until the last few months I have only gotten worse but this last stay in hospital, last August to September has done me wonders.

One thing that has really confused me is all this diet business.

Year before Last the hospital (in another country) said don't eat this and don't eat that. Last year in Spain the dietitian was supposed to call in, she did , but only introduced herself, anyway what I am wanting to say is, everything that the other hospital told me NOT to touch, was given to me in meals at my last hospital ( after a period of No food at all) and I have to say I eat normal now, I even have a few nuts, vinegars, curries and wines,

So WHAT'S ALL THIS CONFLICTING STUFF about DIETS? I am so confused by all this.

Maybe I am just lucky?

I visit hospital every month where my blood is checked, and this month she said she doesn't want to see me for 5 months even though she said I still have a little inflammation ( my whole colon was shot, she told me before) and that if it doesn't clear up she will try me on 2 months of Remicade.

I have regained 25k that I lost and feel great going to toilet is almost normal and sometimes it is, not seen blood for a month yet I have been bleeding for two years.

I hope I stay like this and I also hope that others feeling as I used to (check my old posts) read this and feel hope.

All the best to all sufferers, I hope you get success.

I hope I am not talking too soon but Wow I'm good for now and enjoying it so much.

Well, hospital food is notoriously known for being bad for you. When I was in the hospital last year, I told them I was a vegan and had a strong lactose intolerance. Every day, they brought me yogurt, milk and cereal, Ensure, cream of chicken soup, and turkey sandwiches. I ended up not eating anything the entire time I was there. Most doctors and nutrionists don't know anything about diet and UC because it affects everyone differently. You just have to find what foods trigger symptoms or if foods don't affect your UC. I find that food doesn't affect my UC at all. Everything makes me sick when I am flaring.

In Spain the food was absolutely world class, (for hospitals) me thinks. It came up marked as a colitis diet?
I am not a fish eater but I was shocked to find just how wonderful it is here. I have tried three different types now and I love them. they also gave me lovely lean steak with veg and the starter was almost always salad with Vinegar and tomatoes and onions and everything in fact that I had been told not eat before. Sweet was usually steamed apple or yogurt. We always had fresh bread with Olive oil in fact every thing was drenched in Olive oil, so I assume it's good for colitis lol.

Cups of hot milk with a sachet of coffee three times a day, again I was told not to take milk or sugar, two hospitals both opposites with advice on diets?????