Getting out of a flare

Hello All,

I was wondering if you guys could give me some advise. I was diagnosed with ulcerative proctitis in April this year. I’m currently on Saloflak enema 4g and oral Saloflak granules.

I’m on the enema’s three weeks and the oral granules a week. The last 4/5 days the bleeding stopped and my stool started slowly becoming formed which was great!! Then I had cabbage for dinner yesterday in which I had a diarrhea straight after and now today I’ve already had three very loose stools with a lot of blood.

Is this kinda setback normal? Could the cabbage inflame my colon that bad after one dinner? Will this go away in a few days or do I need a stronger med do you think?

So frustrating thought I was getting better!

Thanks for your help!

Yes, it happens for sure and it makes up play the worst head games. Give yourself a couple of days with a bland diet and see how you do. I suspect the cabbage was just too much fiber for your body right now. There are lots of things I can eat when not flaring that I cannot touch when I am.

or, more importantly, rectal anguish ;-)

hang in there !

Forgot to mention nicotine patches, they gave me dermatitis, and headaches, but it took gut pain from a 7 to a 3 or 4. It also slows down the gut if you were like me and had a bullet train in your GI track. And also food probiotics, kimchi, sourkrout, if you can handle the fiber. Farm cultured gut shots are all liquid, probiotic pickles and SCD yogurt is more mild to digest.

I avoid cabbage while flaring, fart city apart from anything else. Probably you didn't make your flare worse by eating cabbage but an inflamed gut can't handle high fibre. I had a similar experience with lentils, a return of blood and diarrhoea after lentil soup. Symptoms went back to baseline within a day. And yes setbacks are normal which is what makes this disease so frustrating as you never know if it's a small blip or a trend.

I had a similar response from brussels sprouts once during a flare a few years ago. Soooooo much gas and gut pain. Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, asparagus, and cauliflower are notoriously gaseous, especially raw. I can tolerate them in decent amounts when not in a flare, though I stay away from raw. But I haven't eaten brussels sprouts since that day, lol!

I'm currently flaring as well - so far just in the rectal area, a little blood, mucous, diarrhea, some urgency. I am not certain if it started from having a stressful couple of months (moved) or from antibiotics I had to take recently. But I'm treating it first with an additional level of anti-inflammatories. I am taking a double dose of qing dai, probiotics, and being sure to take turmeric/curcumin daily as well. I had gotten irregular with both qing dai and turmeric because I didn't really need them for a long time. Qing dai is a Chinese medicine (I know, I know) and is really the dye indigo - it's the weirdest thing I've ever taken, but it does seem to have strong anti-inflammatory properties. I just get it in capsule form off Amazon.

I think I'll probably look at my diet next if things don't calm down for me in a few days - avoid all those inflammatory foods for a while. It has helped somewhat in the past, but never fully gotten me into remission.

Good luck - I hope you see improvement very quickly!! It is a difficult journey.

-Kristin