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Posted 6/24/2013 11:34 PM (GMT 0)
Ok I feel so stupid.  I have been gf and df forever.  For around a year I did and SCD/Paleo combo.  I'm off all meds (hard to find a maintenance drug for me).  I've been in remission.  Well this afternoon I ate ice cream.  I never do.  That was at 2pm and at 7:30 I had major D out of nowhere.  I do not show milk allergy and I felt perfectly fine while eating it and hours after.  I had a good bm that looked fine this morning. 

Do you think it's the ice cream?  What should I do?  I pray it's not a flare on the way...scared and feel so dumb for doing that today...

Posted 6/24/2013 11:40 PM (GMT 0)
In my case, flare ups usually don't come on instantly like that. It's a progression. Sometimes it's a very quick progression over a couple days but I don't think it would have happened full force a few hours after the ice cream. I guess if you have some sort of allergy (i know you said you tests don't show this) or intolerance to dairy, maybe, hopefully it will go away as quickly as it got irritated.
Posted 6/24/2013 11:42 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, sometimes D is just D


Food-related, germ-related, not always flare-related.
Posted 6/24/2013 11:42 PM (GMT 0)
sounds like a dairy sensitivity to me. i think you will be fine. and now you know to stay away from the ice cream, haha!
Posted 6/24/2013 11:44 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks notsosicklygirl. I'm just sitting here nervous now which doesn't help. I can't tell you how long it's been since I've had D. My main symptom last flare was blood.

I know even normal people get D sometimes for different reasons but hard not to freak myself out. I wish I had more med options. Even my Gi doesn't want me to to Remi yet and I don't think I'll even feel ok mentally taking it.

No mesalamine for me and 6mp messed up liver enzymes.

Thanks again, would love to hear any other support.
Posted 6/24/2013 11:46 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks guys, I just needed a little reassurance and hope that it may be a fluke. Last flare was so tough for me.

Really appreciate your support!
Posted 6/25/2013 12:09 AM (GMT 0)
Yeah, I'm voting with the rest -- I think your body just went "arooo?" when you gave it something it hadn't had for a while. Accentuate the positive!
Posted 6/25/2013 12:14 AM (GMT 0)
That is exactly what happens to me if I have something with sucralose and the like. I get anywhere from a one time D to a day of D and then back to normal.
Posted 6/25/2013 12:18 AM (GMT 0)
What kind of ice cream,just cream and sugar,or some brand with all kinds of stuff in it,including carrageenan. Might make a difference.  There is also a possibility you cant handle a large load of fat in the gut.
Old Mike
Posted 6/25/2013 1:54 AM (GMT 0)
I don't know what the ingredients were but it's from a local farm. In the past I've always been better with regular dairy as opposed to something like coconut milk ice cream. I didn't expect an issue at all. I didn't feel bad at all eating it or after either. I ate a full dinner and was fine then about 1/2 hour after dinner I felt funny. I did not expect D though. I know it's not great but I am usually fine eating a gf brownie or dairy free chocolate. I've been pretty stable actually. A little blip here and there but for the most part good. It's now almost 10pm and no further D yet.
Posted 6/25/2013 2:14 AM (GMT 0)
Probably just shocked your system

hell I ate horribly for a couple weeks then after 3-4 days on a super clean diet I had really bad D, GI seems to believe it was just my body flushing out all the bad stuff. Couple days later I was just fine on the new diet.
Posted 6/25/2013 2:24 AM (GMT 0)
Still can't find ingredients on website but I saw that it's very rich and made of 16% butterfat. Maybe that is it.
Posted 6/25/2013 12:45 PM (GMT 0)
I'd say lactose intolerance. It's normal to feel scared but i don't think this is a flare coz the reaction is pretty strong; it sounds like a food reaction. It's probably a good thing that your body just flushed it out before it did any damage.
Posted 6/25/2013 3:27 PM (GMT 0)
Probably lactose intolerance and too much fat intake...sounds like a normal reaction, actually.
Especially if you had a lot.

q
Posted 6/25/2013 3:52 PM (GMT 0)
My, we're such a superstitious bunch here: "I had one food that I fear caused a bout of diarrhea am I flaring?". Superstitious in that even one slight deviation from our regiment might cause a flare up (we're like baseball players that repeat the same routine before each swing: tighten glove, look left, look right, touch hat, and swing; fearing we'll mess up should we miss a step). Any one can have a random bout of diarrhea, even us uc people, so don't panic based on a single episode of it. I remember my GI saying to me once not to call him in a panic over a single episode of diarrhea. I love icecream, don't blame it and give it up unless you can prove it was the cause. Eat it on several different occasions to prove it was the cause (I am quite skeptical).
Posted 6/25/2013 5:10 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks again for the responses. So far no more bouts, haven't gone since. I do have some crampy sensations on and off. I get ibs ish stuff even without a flare. I'm trying be hopeful. One other thing...does anyone get cramping up under their left rib cage. I do sometime right before I go and other times if I eat fast. It's painful but always passes and then I don't have it for a while.
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