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Posted 6/16/2013 1:48 PM (GMT 0)
Hi,

I'm double posting on UC forum b/c I feel that I can get some advice here too since I have Crohn's Colitis.

I'm in a bad flare and lost more than 10lbs of weight in the last 3 weeks even though I need to gain weight.

I constantly have this greenish dark diarrhea that makes my intestine grumble and is urgent but not much blood is found.

Keeping me awake all the time going 6 times throughout the night.

I have no fever but some tenderness around my ascending colon/ileum area.

Feels like everything is being going out from my small intestine even though I dont have much food eaten.

Does this sound like infection? but I have no fever.
Currently don't have insurance and I'm worried that I might have to go to the emergency room.

I don't do well with antibiotics b/c they made me go into a SUPER FLARE mode.

I just started SCD diet on thursday, eating mostly meat/fruit juice...

I need some advice please. Anyone else experience this?
Posted 6/16/2013 1:54 PM (GMT 0)
This sounds just like my last flare. I was confuse too, because my flares never presented themselves like that before. But after 4 days on pred, I was feeling better. Hope you feel better soon.
Posted 6/16/2013 3:18 PM (GMT 0)
What meds and other things are you on and what is your diet like?
Posted 6/16/2013 3:35 PM (GMT 0)
I had chicken/beef broth for the last few days and started SCD.

I was eating clean carbs/veges/fruits/meat(rice,sweet potato, blueberries, tomatoes, etc) Only on Pentasa right now.
Posted 6/16/2013 6:46 PM (GMT 0)
I'm betting your greenish color is coming from the fruit you are eating, particularly the blueberries you mentioned or anything else that is purplish in color.
Posted 6/16/2013 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
Have you given sfRowasa a shot?
Posted 6/16/2013 7:30 PM (GMT 0)
I haven't had blueberries or blended fruit juice for 6 days now.

I eat only chicken/beef and cooked veges right now.
p.s. I go about 15 - 17 times a day... feeling very dizzy. have hard time walking down from my room to first floor.

D changes in color, weird? It's extremely green like chlorophyll with mucous and blood. Very slimy. srry for tmi.
And the next one is brown with mucous and blood. Slimy.
The one after that is just mucous/blood..

For sfRowasa, I don't have insurance yet so I haven't seen my doc but when I call him up to make an appointment next week, I will be sure to ask him about that.
Posted 6/16/2013 10:14 PM (GMT 0)
The green color is bile. Diarrhea can be green if your stool is travelling too fast through the bowel and the bile doesn't have time to work its magic. Have you had your gallbladder out? It could be that the bile is also irritating your GI tract and causing the diarrhea. Cholestrymine is commonly given as a bile binder.
Posted 6/16/2013 10:34 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah, it's bile all right. Starches absorb bile in the digestive tract, which is one reason why thickening foods like bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast (BRAT diet) are recommended for diarrhea. That's also why it makes sense that you're seeing a lot more bile in your BMs since starting SCD, which is zero starch.

Cholestyramine does a good job of binding bile but it's a hassle to take and not without side effects. One of the most annoying things about it is that it blocks absorption of other oral meds AND nutrients, so you have to time it properly and it can worsen any weight loss problems you might be having. I would try controlling the bile with diet (by adding back starch... sorry SCD) before trying cholestyramine.
Posted 6/17/2013 12:27 AM (GMT 0)
Ugh. Yea. sounds right about the bile.
Cholestyramine powder also has sucrose, not for scd, dam it.

I wish I was worrying about relationship, work, issues like other normal human beings. Not this crap.
Posted 6/17/2013 12:27 AM (GMT 0)
Ugh. Yea. sounds right about the bile.
Cholestyramine powder also has sucrose, not for scd, dam it.

I wish I was worrying about relationship, work, issues like other normal human beings. Not this crap.
Posted 6/17/2013 1:48 PM (GMT 0)
Hi When I had green d and it was what you describe and I lost a ton of weight, I had some kind of bacteria. I took flagyl and CIPRO and boy did I feel awesome within two days. It was something I picked up on vacation.
Posted 6/17/2013 9:22 PM (GMT 0)
So it's possible that I have an infection too huh?..
I sent in take home stool test to Genova Diagnostics today so hopefully if i have something, it will show.
It's my own stool but had hard time scooping it up without going wth.. Not a pleasant experience. Just memorable..
Posted 6/17/2013 10:05 PM (GMT 0)
Oh, but this is what I am going through right now. After they released me from ER they prescribed some steroids, but I'm not going to take them... While everything started, I was eating yogurt with bee pollen, baked potatoes, and I decided that this is actually what was making it worst according to the SCD, and that is why I decided to start it. Yesterday went fine, but I was stupid enough to make smoothie (spinach, ban, straw), an today 'go green" again :( (I was little feverish, I probably have some infection going on... have no idea anymore, so scared)
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