Low Residue Diet

I am on a low residue diet and have trouble digesting lots of foods. I have given up eating most fruits, vegetables, sugar, dairy, legumes, high fat foods, whole grains. It doesn't leave too much. I just started steroidal enemas and am feeling better, so I want to try to eat more while I am well.

I am curious if other people with UC restrict their diets as much. Do you find you can eat more on steroids??

Diet modification is the reason for my remission because oral Rx pills never helped me (mesalamine enemas did help).
"Low residue" usually had bread in it and gluten turned out to be one my major irritants although I didn't know that because there weren't any symptoms--until I quit gluten and bleeding stopped.

I only took a steroid pill (Entocort) for a short time with no results for UC although it did give me a lot of energy.

My suggestions for you: make juices from veggies (not using much fruit). This removes fiber (an irritant to wounded guts) but gives you good vitamins. If you live near a health food store with a juice bar that's ideal. Also drink chicken broth and bone broth.

I think you are on the right track with your diet by removing common problem foods. Try adding a probiotic pill daily along with a gentle fiber such as psyllium or Citrucel (helped me).
Consider adding "resistant starch" which is cold potatoes (or potato starch dissolved in water) or cold rice (mash it up or blend it to help digestion). Do a search for thread on resistant starch here.

You are exactly right to use your "steroid" time to try and get things under control. Try to keep fiber low in your diet and only eat "soluble" fiber, much friendlier to UC guts.

Good luck.