diet for proctitis

Hi Folks
Any advice would be well appreciated. Just been diagnosed with proctitis and also have oesophagitis/excess acid in stomach. I am on 2 omeprazole and 2 mesalazine a day. I suffer really bad constipation. I always feel there is a mass in my bum. In order to go to toilet to have BM daily (requested by dr) i drink 1-2.5 glasses prune juice/2 glasses apple juice end up with diarrhoea severely cry and think of committing suicide
I need some advice on diet i eat chicken/fish/egg white as yolk aggravates me. I drink hemp and soya milk take yakult probiotic. No bread cause gluten seems to bind me. I have pear/nectarine/peach/apple tinned or cooked mega soft. I have been given fortijuice as a supplement for minerals. I am struggling with which vegetables to eat and how to prepare them at the moment i eat cauliflower, spinach, lettuce, swede, turnip, aubergine, little potato. What others can i try? Also what to eat for breakfast? How to cook them? At the moment it is boiled and mashed
I have been prescribed Movicol as a laxative i took 2 the other day no effect hence prune juice. Are there any better laxatives? Use to gym it but the moment too bloated and lethargic. What exercises are people doing? Please any tips would be helpful im so stressed and upset im close to wanting to kill myself

Hi, sorry to hear your having such a rough time. Often when people are first diagnosed it sends them into a tail spin which is very stressful.....What I found to be helpful is to keep a food diary, even if its only for a couple of months, write down everything that you eat, and you will soon have a good idea of what you can, and cannot eat.

But really at this stage you should not be too rigid with what you think you can eat, because everybody is different, and what one person can tolerate, others will have trouble with, this process takes a bit of time to become clear, it doesn't happen overnight.

I had a clear idea within a month, I know I am lactose intolerant, so I don't touch milk, but I eat sensibly, blandly, stuff like chicken with rice, steak and mashed potato, I certainly don't follow a rigidly controlled diet, that would depress me.

Try not to panic, and know that once you have your meds sorted, and a good idea of things you can eat without problems, you will feel calmer, not so traumatized...

I too have Proctitis and rectal meds have been helpful . The Canasa Suppositories twice a day have eased some of my discomfort. I was recently hospitalized because it got so swollen and couldn't pass stool just blood. The pain was extreme. IV Steroids, fluids and pain meds, plus a liquid diet helped. I am home and have been following a low fiber/ low residue diet to cause less stool to help by rectum heal. Some of the veggies you list would be painful to me during a flare.

Please ask about the Canasa Supp. ( Mesalamine) Good luck, I also have UC, but the Proctitis part really kicks my ass !! lol

Hi, I was just wondering how you are doing today?

Hi,
I have Proctitis also. I find Asacol suppositories helped me in the past, but recently I have not been able to retain them. I hardly ever use pharmaceutical drugs though and manage my disease with a combination of GAPS Diet and Autoimmune Paleo Diet. I also have acupuncture 2x/month and some Chinese pills, take glutamine, no eggs, no dairy as recently started reacting to eggs.
For constipation you could try psyllium husks or some soothing slippery elm, transdermal magnesium and if mine is really bad I use enemas. Abdominal massage is also very beneficial.
Vitamin E enemas supposed to be very good for proctitis and many people had success with doing an anti-candida protocol. Also mega dose of vitamin D3 and K2 meant to be good if you find your levels are not sufficient. I'm experimenting with these at the moment with noticeable improvement. (Please do your own research, this is not medical advise.)
I understand that you are very upset, we have all been there. I had to give up the job I loved.
Try to remain positive!
Hope you find my message helpful!

I have had proctitis on and off for the last 6 years. The first time I was diagnosed once I took the course of steroids it disappeared only to return a couple of years later and to find this time the medication didn't work. I managed to get rid of my symptoms through a series of treatments with acupuncture and kinesiology. Personally I think it was mainly due to the kinesiology treatments where I was treated for a number of intolerances - it's the strangest thing but it worked for me - I was tested for a range of intolerances and reacted to all the obvious sugar, gluten, amines, sulphur, mould and yeast and I would go in each week and we treat one at a time, I would go on special diet for 24 hours and then I could go back to eating whatever I liked. The real turning point was when we got to sulphur. If anyone is reading this in Sydney let me know if you are interested and I will send you the kinesiologists details. Anyway I was clear for a couple of years and could eat whatever I liked.

Just recently my symptoms came back and I went back to the kinesiologists and did a series of treatments this time only on sulphur and amines ( as it was the only ones I was reacting to) and while it helped I still had the inflammation. This is when I discovered this site and started trying some of the different diet plans offered ( thank you so much to everyone that shares their tips its so helpful) and it was through this I have discovered that I have significantly reduced my symptoms in fact almost disappeared by stopping drinking water out of reusable plastic water bottles. I always thought that this was an urban myth but it has made a massive difference to me . I am currently reading up about the effects of plastic and trying to reduce where I can .

I hope this of help to others