The tap water where I grew up (in a suburb of Detroit) wasn't that bad tasting, really, but the tap water where I'm living now (in a big city) not only tastes like chlorine, but tastes like it, too....
Before I was even diagnosed, I was having problems. I worked at an amusement park, and my uniform was a yellow pair of short overalls. the first three times I had problems, I was either close enough...
Plus, I don't like calling my GI, or talking to people on the phone, period, because I always forget to tell them stuff. Plus, I don't think the "nurses" are actually nurses but are just medical...
I only have a week and a half of school left, and I can't see my advisor without an appointment, and she doesn't have any openings. I looked. I emailed her, though it wasn't about my UC, it was to...
I started the SCD in July, started college in September, and began cheating on said diet probably around mid-October. Not enough to cause problems, just enough to help with the stress I was going...
I actually did that with my Apriso when I started on it, Taking one pill, four times a day, until I read the bottle more carefully and realized that it meant four pills all at once. I felt dumb after...
For all the SCDers on the board: Last weekend, I either went through the die-off, or I had a bad reaction to some peanut butter I wasn't ready for, but either way, I went from having, nice, formed,...
I will. Like I said, I'm going to make an appointment with my GP for next week, if I can swing it. Can I ask my GP about LDN? I would have asked my GI, but I wasn't sure what it was when I saw him....
The last week and a half or so, I've been feeling kind of odd. I started the SCD about a month and a half ago, and at the end of last week, I either went through the die-off or was having a bad...
Mine is based off of my favorite hobby: Collecting American Girl dolls. AGT13 is the original code for the American Girl of Today (the modern dolls, now called "My American Girl") #13, which has...
Corn used to be one of my favorite foods- could that be the reason I have the UC, I wonder, I wonder? Or did I read the article wrong? (I didn't read it word for word, I skimmed over it. It's almost...
I actually lost about half of my hair before I was diagnosed with UC, but after my hyperthyroidism started. My hair wasn't very long at the time, but I've always had really thick, somewhat "poofy"...
I was having problems with lomotil, too, it would help make my left side stop hurting, but when it wore off, it made it hurt worse, in addition to the D coming back full force. So I quit taking it...
I was on Zoloft when my D started, but figured it was just a side effect. A little over two and a half years later, I was diagnosed with the UC. I have found out since that there's a possibility the...
OK. I found Kraft blocks at my local grocery store, and they said that they "Contain 0 grams of Lactose per serving". Are those good to use?...
What is "Brick Cheese"? Is it a type of cheese, like cheddar, or is is just another name for cheese blocks?...
Thanks....
Stealth: Do you mean with the VSL, or the diet?...
I was actually going to ask for the DS stuff, because of the cost. I'm actually not even sure if my insurance will cover the DS. Does it come in pill form, too?...
Thanks for all the help, guys, and thank you for the advice, imagardener. I'm actually going to college in September, and considering finding a new GI by where I'll be living, for multiple reasons,...
I just started the Specific Carbohydrate Diet yesterday, and, already, I'm feeling better; mentally, at least. I'm taking Apriso, which has Aspertame in it, so I'm thinking of asking my GI to change...
I can't find just plain "swallow 'em" Lactaid at my local grocery store anymore, all they have are the chewable ones, that, in addition to tasting horrible, have sorbitol in them, which I think...
My mom did it, or, that's where I learned it from....
I wrap it around my hand, what would that be called?...
Do I need to talk to my GI about going on BC pills, or can I just go to my PCP and ask to be put on them? I have an appointment to see my GI at the end of March, but I need to see my PCP before that...
I'm like AMK77. I met my fiance just as my UC was starting to act up, and he was with me when I was diagnosed. Even after all that we've been through, he still proposed. You just haven't found the...
Whey is a milk product, and I have found out that most of the lactose in milk is in the whey. Just because you mix the protein with water doesn't mean that there's no lactose. I've drunk milk all my...
My fiance and I want children, too. I''m not worried about the UC so much as I am the fact that large babies tend to run in both our families. I was 9lbs 14oz when I was born, and he was 9lbs. 12oz....
I just had the best two weeks I've had for quite some time, and I believe it's due to my having my period, and thus, the hormones my body creates during said time. I am beginning to consider BC, to...
i_love_coffee: It's not that I don't want to work, it's I can't find work. I had to quit CP three months before my contract was up, and I have a feeling it's been haunting me. I've been looking ever...
I was working at an amusement park called Cedar Point when my symptoms started. It was my first job, and unfortunately looks like it may be my last, too....
I wonder...When I started having symptoms, I hadn't had my period for quite awhile. (Due to weight loss, poor diet, who knows what) I wonder if the lack of hormones is what triggered my first flare....
I went out of town last week, and Sunday, the day I came back, I woke up with a sore throat. Last night, I looked at my throat, and saw what I think is the indicating factor of strep throat: the...
What's neurotic mean? Some of those "symptoms" I have- I was a shy child, often cranky about something or other, dependent on my parents for almost everything, and I have quite a few things in my...
Ok, I've decided I'm not going to do it, I'll just stay on the Apriso and the Rowasa. I called my GI's office and told them so, and am waiting for them to call back. I feel fine, I used the Rowasa...
I think I'm doing OK with the 4 Apriso in the morning and the Rowasa at night; I usually only have 3-4 BMs a day, split between the morning and the evening. They aren't formed, but they're not pure...
I have also found that it may cause fertility problems, and I want more than anything to have kids. My fiance is against it for that reason. Not that reason alone, but still. I'm also one of those...
My youngest brother had his wisdom teeth taken out yesterday, and is a "Nobody's ever felt like this before, I'm the only one in the whole world suffering and I'm going to let people know it" mood,...
I'm shedding really badly, too. My hair is about half as thick as it was two years ago, and it was pretty thick. I lost about a third of it last year after being diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, and...
I have found that when I eat something that doesn't agree with me, usually dairy of some sort, (being lactose intolerant) that my entire upper torso hurts- ribs, shoulders, etc. It's like someone is...
I've had bathroom dreams for years, even before I started having problems. Mine usually involve giant, maze-like things that are filled with people, who for some reason are usually naked. (including...
I hate it when you're in a restaurant and they only have one toilet per gender. Granted, it's more private that way, but if some one else is in there, and you gotta go...or if someone goes in right...
I was having symptoms when I met my fiance, and was diagnosed while we were still dating. He's the reason my depression hasn't gotten the better of me, if you catch my drift; he won't let it, or...
What does "normal" really mean, anyway? What are the standards of being "normal"? These are things I don't understand. I am one of the first to admit that I'm "weird", and I'm actually proud of that...
Yeah, I read the papers she gave me, and they said stuff about the skin being dry and scaly, which obviously didn't fit my case at all, as my hands were neither. That was about how big mine were. and...
Just how "tiny" are they? I had a bunch of tiny little bumps that were fluid filled all over my hands a couple weeks ago, and I thought maybe it was an allergic reaction to something, but my family...
I find that the more I eat, the better I feel, and when I start to eat less, I start to feel yucky. Not sure why. I say continue eating. I got into the habit of not eating before I was diagnosed...
I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism last May, and I'm convinced that it was a side effect to the UC, because I read somewhere, (Mayo Clinic's website, I think, but I don't remember) that people with...
Well, I did the first one last night, and my side doesn't hurt this morning, even though I could only hold it in for about 5 hours. I think I ate something that didn't agree with me yesterday,...
Thanks, calm....