L Glutamine result

Just bought some, I'll try it :) How are you taking the powder?
eta: and what time of day do you take it?

Hi fishface,

I take half the dose in the morning in half a glass of water before breakfast and then later in the day at least an hour before my dinner in the evening. I read that it absorbs better this way. I'm really happy with the results, feels like I am in control of my bowel and that even IBS issues which linger all day for me have gone quiet :) :)

thanks for your tips isleman, I wish I had found out about l-glutamine sooner!

I've now been taking the LG powder for just over a week - 3g in the morning after the bathroom trip(s), & 3g at bedtime with my VSL3. And I'm down to four bathroom trips a day, and two of those are usually just gas. The cramps have gone, too.

At the beginning of this flare, three weeks ago, it was more like 15 trips and I was mostly staying upstairs as downstairs was too far from the loo. Yesterday I actually went out for a few hours without any accidents.

Hard to tell if it's the powder, my diet or just the natural trajectory of this flare, but I'm going to keep taking the stuff.

Typical foods of the day:
A banana (after the l-glutamine in the morning)
Breakfast: rice, egg & spinach (with a drop of soy sauce)
Lunch: chicken & veg soup (home made, it's got carrots & onions & garlic & cabbage & potato)
Maybe another banana if I get peckish, or a handful of blueberries
Dinner: a big rice-noodle bowl with white fish, half a boiled egg & greens & a little dashi stock

So basically chicken, fish, eggs, whatever starch works and iron-bearing greens/soft boiled veg. It's not too far off my normal diet, if a lot more boring - I went through my food diaries from the last flare and booted out everything that caused me problems last time.

Hi my name is Jerry- I am 66. I have had left side UC since 1998.
I was on asacol for 12 years-I am now on lialda and the occasional mesalamine enema.
After reading about l-glutamine --6 weeks ago-
I started taking the powder supplement -in the morning along with my lialda tablet,
and 500 mg pill before lunch-.
I feel great-
-I noticed a change about 4 days in---dry farts-'just feeling a nothing
in my intestinal track'--
and then within 2 weeks-
NO urgency to go- and slowly a more "normal stool" each day and
now I can skip a day--passing stool
--I take 1500 mg in the morning with water and my lialda tabs.
My wife and I have became vegetarian (mostly) this past year.
Plant protein --veggies--fruit -brown rice--I believe this has helped.
Once about every 10 days 2 weeks I still have a piece of fish.
Good Luck I believe the l-glutamine made a difference to me.

This is perfect timing as I was looking for this when I was out this morning!! I'm at a point of having to choose Remicade, Humira or a clinical trial. This isn't my worst flare by far, but this is the first time pred doesn't seem to be working. I have anxiety, and my insurance is 80/20 right now, along with being out of town for work the next two weeks. A decision is a few weeks away atleast, so I really started looking at any other options. Food never matters unless I eat something completely crazy.

I was hoping to find it while I was out today at my local phamacy or Kroger, but no luck and by the time our morning activities were done I was too exhausted to go seeking. I'll try cvs or something tomorrow. I'm super hopeful. Started turmeric tea two days ago.

Weds, Thurs, and Friday I'll be sharing a house with 10 of the senior management at my job and doing a 5 hour drive with one of them...each way! Pressure to eat and rink is big at these things too lol, so hoping I can get more of a semblance of control. These comment give me some hope atleast! : )

I have heard from more than one source that taken with food glutamine is great for bodybuilders because it helps to build muscle. And when taken on an empty stomach glutamine helps repair intestinal tissue.

On page 168 in his book, 'Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution', Dr. Robert Atkins, the Atkins diet guru, talks how glutamine "maintains the structural integrity of the intestines to such an extent that it is dubbed 'intestinal permeability factor.' No other nutrient is as important for gastrointestinal integrity."

According to Dr. Atkins not only is glutamine effective for healing the digestive tract, (which is what IBDers like us need), but that it also snuffs out cravings for sugar.

But I stopped taking it after more recent studies show that excess glutamine intake can be problematic. But trying it after my most recent flare I found that glutamine seemed to speed up recovery. That is why my signature says I take glutamine ONLY when I feel gut repair is needed after a flare, otherwise not at all.