Foods to avoid..

I have a problem with milk but not with any cheeses, creamers, or yogurt (odd it is). Milk give me abdominal pain but no bloody d. I just tapered down to zero predisone recently after being on it for about 5 months (had a really bad flare). Havent had bloody/mucus poo since being on predisone, just hope it stays that way. Foods that ache my tummy and i stay away from are milk, potato chips, fried foods, high carbo foods, ice cream. Thats all i can think of at the moment. Havent really been pushed to a flare up from food but extreme abdominal pain is close to one i would say. When i flare up mean no bloody d stools. During my last flare up couldnt hardly eat anything nor did i want to. Had no appettite and anything i tried to eat sent me straight to the bowl to talk to the man about a bloody mule. Just had lots of water, soy yogurt, protein shakes, breakfast supplements. Read somewhere that you can try to food process your meal to make it mushy or shredded before you eat. My wife jokingly suggested baby food, but that may not be a bad idea after all. Flare ups are bad news.... Hope you feel better soon.

If dairy bothers you, you may be lactose intolerant. Ask your doctor to test you. There are a lot of prepared foods that have milk products in them, so it would be good to know for sure. I'm sure if you do a search for lactose intolerance, you'll find earlier discussions of this on the board.

I just figured out how to delete my post. Here are mine, but I know everyone has individual triggers:

Other than the obvious like popcorn, very high fiber foods, nuts and seeds, here they are:

Red cabbage
Cereal with any kind of even lactose-free milk (weird, huh?)
Most forms of dairy
alcohol (a biggie)
Multivitamins
Onions either raw or cooked very well
Clams and clam sauce
Iceberg lettuce
Any kind of citrus fruit

I know there are others, but I am blank right now!