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Posted 6/16/2014 8:49 PM (GMT 0)
So i have been flaring since beginning of May and since last week i am not having any blood in stool but just a drop of blood on tissue. I continue to lose weight from 146 to 106 now. I am
On 4 lialda and 60mg prednisone. My blood tests are now normal except low vit d and WBC count was high last week and now its normal. I saw my GI today and he said to monitor my weight for 3 days if its not stable then he wants me to start Humira even there is no blood in stool, no diarrhea and i m having small soft semi formed stools. Idk why he wants me to start humira if my inflmmation has gone down and no bleeding like bfr. I am vegetarian and i am eating less than what regular person eats. So i know i am getting only around 500-600 calories per day. I am trying to say no to humira even if i lose some weight because i think once i start eating normal i will gain weight. Any suggestion?
Posted 6/16/2014 9:07 PM (GMT 0)
How tall are you? Frame size? Typically regular weight? Can't really answer anything without that. Didn't see that anywhere. Seen you where 146 but is that your regular weight? If you have dropped 40lbs surely you are not intentionally limiting your calories to 600 cal/day. You have an egg allergy?
Posted 6/16/2014 9:10 PM (GMT 0)
Id start it if i were you since you are just continuing to get sicker and more malnourished. You dont wanna wait around until you need tpn like me.
Posted 6/16/2014 9:14 PM (GMT 0)
I am 6"2 and 146 was my normal weight before flare. I eat 2 boiled eggs a day. And mainly rice,lentils, peanut butter, banana,
Posted 6/16/2014 9:19 PM (GMT 0)
I was always underweight when i was normal.
Posted 6/16/2014 9:23 PM (GMT 0)
Why don't you eat more?
Posted 6/16/2014 9:25 PM (GMT 0)
I am scared that certain food will make me bleed again thats y am i am limiting my food intake and avoiding whole wheat, grains, milk, etc.
Posted 6/16/2014 9:46 PM (GMT 0)
There are ALOT of things to eat besides grains and milk. I can understand the scared to eat thing. Was there at one point. Just had to overcome it. It was either eat or let my body eat itself.
Posted 6/16/2014 10:29 PM (GMT 0)
Yea i'll tell him to wait one more week and i'll try to eat more and see if i maintain the weight.
Posted 6/16/2014 10:56 PM (GMT 0)
It sounds like you're starting Humira for UC, not for weight loss. If you can get your UC managed, you can eat more, and feel better *hopefully*. In my opinion, you definitely need to figure something out. You shouldn't try to limit food intake in order to keep things at a point where you can function throughout the day. I have done this while flaring but never on an ongoing basis. Humira will not help alone, you need to eat more calories. 600 calories is about half of what a petite woman on a strict diet eats each day. I am not a dietitian so i could be off on that, but going by my friends who eat strict diets, that's what 600 calories makes me think of.
Posted 6/17/2014 4:54 PM (GMT 0)
Why don't you just eat more of what you are already comfortable with?

No problem with eating more rice and beans.

You need at least 1500 calories a day. At that weight you must look sickly. It's not worth malnutrition because you are afraid of bad stool. You will open yourself up for far worse problems than that if you continue on that path...humira or not.
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