Stopping a flare in its tracks

I have seen people post inquiring about this topic. Here is one answer.

I normally work from home. While downtown yesterday I ate some 'extra' sandwiches from a customer luncheon that was available in the breakroom. Not sure if the ham sandwiches had a little salmonella or it was just that loaded with toxic chemicals but the only other choice was the vending machine. Once into remission I can usually eat anything as it takes repeated insults to trip me up. Well this was 'ON' pretty quickly once arriving home. There I was going once every 36 hours just days prior and bam I was running in their a lot and I felt toxic and inflamed all over in my core and yeah it burned. It was messed up.

Effected my head too, just starting to feel like me again, it was very hard to work solving problems, now it feels like just a bunch of 'choices'.

So here is what I did and will keep doing for a few days:

1) Halted the processed stuff
2) Chopped up chicken and dumped into quality chicken soup I enjoy
3) Pulled huge frozen salmon out of freezer and teed it up on the fridge side will consume that beginning tomorrow
4) Gigantic clear capsules stuffed with PSYLLIUM SEED POWDER washed down with VSL#3DS protein/oats powder with water blended.
5) Mebeverine 2 capsules and curcumin,turmeric and boswella for good luck

I feel sick feverish but the 'core' feeling of inflammation has subsided and I am not running 'in there' anymore.

Going to take some LIBRAX now that its night as I could not recall if it has any cognitive impact, read that its actually a mild benzo.

Plenty of water and that ought to do it, oh and its about time I slept a full night that will help.

Got out of balance and #4 was my main plan - that bomb of butyrate generating powder and probiotic re-establishing the balance was corrective. Time to go take bomb #2 for day #2.

I've had this burning question for yrs now and wanted to ask but was afraid it would be taken the wrong way sounding judgmental or something but here it goes (and I don't mean any offense to anyone)

When IBDers go into remission, I often see them write about how they are able to eat all their favorite foods (most of which are not the healthiest) again, and then at some point they go back into a flare and have to start eating their "safe flare diet".

So has anyone stuck to eating their "flare diet" once in remission just to see what happens? or tried to eat only healthy while in remission to see if they stay in remission longer or something?

I've never been in full remission (due to complications with my perianal crohn's skin tags---I have crohn's colitis which is CD affecting the colon) but since altering my diet, through all the added stress I've gone through in the last yr with my mom passing, administrating her will, selling our house, renting until we found another house to buy....I mean those are all really stressful events and yet my flare didn't get crazy and out of control so I'm chalking it up to my diet changes, exercising and all that's listed in my sig below.

pb4 said...


So has anyone stuck to eating their "flare diet" once in remission just to see what happens? or tried to eat only healthy while in remission to see if they stay in remission longer or something?

I do but then the remission runs for 2 years and I am bored. Another factor is that you tend to want to 'test' the strength of the remission.

Its straightforward for me.

Gas=Bad item so remove it

No gas= Continue

When your bleeding inside you have to be very careful, when your healed its a different ball game, its a completely different 'careful'.

When I am flaring my food choices are simply medicinal, if it wont help by being anti-inflammatory or neutral then I do not eat it.

Stress is of two basic types. Distress and Eustress. I am selling a home while having one built, job is crazy 80 hours per week, parenting 5 days a week. However I can control much about each of those. The things that stress me out that I cannot control have a bad effect on my UC.

Thanks for your responses guys!

I know that it's our messed up immune system that has caused this disease for us, so I would never imply that anyone keeps making themselves sick with having a crap diet, but I'm just curious if it's possible that we can make our disease (or at least symptoms) better by chanigng our diet/lifestyle idefinitely. Hope you get where I'm coming from, I'm trying to come off dilusional like I can cure us all or anything, or lecturing about anyone's diet.

I had a healthy diet before I got sick. And it seems like diet doesn't bother me too much except the usual culprits - dairy (now), spicy food. I was a vegan prior to UC, but I had to go back to meat because I was almost anemic.
Now sometimes I feel like I don't know what to eat anymore, which is very discouraging. I've never had a 'flare diet', except for adding bulky foods. It didn't really do much good for me.