Fast transit time

My disease is not under control and I have an appointment with a new GI doctor for October, FINALLY!

I'm not in crisis but things aren't good. I'm on 15mg of prednisone and taking a lot of herbal inflammatories. That seems to be keeping things at bay for now. I have a hard time going up in prednisone because I lose weight really, really fast. The protein wasting side effect is brutal. I have no other meds I can try though. I'm minorly bleeding, but it's there. There's cramping and pain. My stools smell like death, so more hydrogen sulfide bacteria, probably because of the blood.

My question is... how can I slow down transit time? Before this flare, I was healing and my transit time was up to 12 hours. I'm vegan so a faster transit time is normal, usually, even though 12 isn't ideal. But now my transit time is about 4 hours and I'm back to not getting through the night.

For the sake of absorbing more, what can I do to slow things down? People always talk about more fiber but I find fiber makes me go more often not less! I feel like slowing down transit time could also spare my rectum.

Could I take immodium, maybe?

I think that this herbal stuff may increase your bm drastically - in my case, for example, such things are a disaster. I sometimes talk with a girl on a Polish uc forum who had similar problems to yours. Whatever she ate or drank, she had to go to the toilet immediately. It all stopped after she took antibiotic xifaxan, she says it is a real miracle, now she isn't even taking her regular meds and has only one bm a day.

so I think xifaxan would be good for you too. This girl from the forum says it is just a life saver for her. She was taking it for 7 days, two tablets a day. After that she's been having only one bm a day and before, she says, it was a real horror.

"Sometimes antibiotics only work temporarily."

and sometimes not -

please stay away from the herbal inflammatories ------- they can be ........ inflammatory ;-)

i agree with the ewa girl - ditch that herbal crap until you can determine what is beneficial and what's kicking your butt -

for what it's worth, i was a very strict vegan when UC invaded my colon - see what i'm doing now in my sig -


TT

TroubledTurds said...
"Sometimes antibiotics only work temporarily."

and sometimes not -

please stay away from the herbal inflammatories ------- they can be ........ inflammatory ;-)

i agree with the ewa girl - ditch that herbal crap until you can determine what is beneficial and what's kicking your butt -

for what it's worth, i was a very strict vegan when UC invaded my colon - see what i'm doing now in my sig -


TT

Curcumin and boswellia with prednisone have been a life saver. Not sure where you got the idea that anti-inflammatory herbs are inflammatory? Did you have that experience?

That's amazing about xifaxan... maybe I should look into that, if it's appropriate.

I don't take regular curcumin. I take one called curcumin phytosome. It has saved me from the full on inflammatory cascade that normally lands me in the hospital and in hopeless condition. To each their own though, I know what works for some isn't good for others!