Re: food choices that time of the month

[Guest guest]

Or is this something that is just happening to me?I think it happens to a lot of women, period (heh!), not just IBDers. Though some people get constipated rather than having looser BMs. Mara

[Guest guest]

Or is this something that is just happening to me?I think it happens to a lot of women, period (heh!), not just IBDers. Though some people get constipated rather than having looser BMs. Mara

[Guest guest]

happens to me too :-)

eileen

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

Jodi wrote:"Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?"

-------------Hi Jodi,I relate. Completely.The week before my period I crave more protein, fats, and calories, so I indulge and that really seems to help. I don't know if my body is truly craving more calories or not, or if the craving is a nutritional deficiency unmasking itself. I'm still trying to answer that question. I also have uncomfortable periods (bloating, pain, moodiness, fatigue), but nothing next to what they used to be pre-SCD. As to the loose-ness, I take additional probiotics during this time and it helps, but doesn't completely solve, the GI symptoms that crop up before my period. My endocrinologist told me that my uncomfortable periods have to do with suboptimal levels of thyroid hormone, which I've just begun to correct in the past month. I also JUST purchased a Vitamix blender and will begin making wholefood smoothies (different than a juicer in that the vitamix blends the entire veggie/fruit. no

discarded pulp.) I'm trying this based on the recommendation of a nutritionist, and because I haven't done so well with mineral supplements and my blood tests show i'm borderline low in Zinc, Magnesium, Calcium, etc. I'm wondering if my lowish nutritional status complicates my periods. I tend to think it does, as proper hormone levels are affected by nutritional status. When you say you have low sex hormones, are you speaking about Est/Progesterone? Or DHEA/Testosterone? I have very low DHEA and Testosterone and borderline low Estrogen/Progesterone. Do you supplement any of the sex hormones?Best, Nina in MA

[Guest guest]

Jodi wrote:"Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?"

-------------Hi Jodi,I relate. Completely.The week before my period I crave more protein, fats, and calories, so I indulge and that really seems to help. I don't know if my body is truly craving more calories or not, or if the craving is a nutritional deficiency unmasking itself. I'm still trying to answer that question. I also have uncomfortable periods (bloating, pain, moodiness, fatigue), but nothing next to what they used to be pre-SCD. As to the loose-ness, I take additional probiotics during this time and it helps, but doesn't completely solve, the GI symptoms that crop up before my period. My endocrinologist told me that my uncomfortable periods have to do with suboptimal levels of thyroid hormone, which I've just begun to correct in the past month. I also JUST purchased a Vitamix blender and will begin making wholefood smoothies (different than a juicer in that the vitamix blends the entire veggie/fruit. no

discarded pulp.) I'm trying this based on the recommendation of a nutritionist, and because I haven't done so well with mineral supplements and my blood tests show i'm borderline low in Zinc, Magnesium, Calcium, etc. I'm wondering if my lowish nutritional status complicates my periods. I tend to think it does, as proper hormone levels are affected by nutritional status. When you say you have low sex hormones, are you speaking about Est/Progesterone? Or DHEA/Testosterone? I have very low DHEA and Testosterone and borderline low Estrogen/Progesterone. Do you supplement any of the sex hormones?Best, Nina in MA

[Guest guest]

Jodi wrote:"Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?"

-------------Hi Jodi,I relate. Completely.The week before my period I crave more protein, fats, and calories, so I indulge and that really seems to help. I don't know if my body is truly craving more calories or not, or if the craving is a nutritional deficiency unmasking itself. I'm still trying to answer that question. I also have uncomfortable periods (bloating, pain, moodiness, fatigue), but nothing next to what they used to be pre-SCD. As to the loose-ness, I take additional probiotics during this time and it helps, but doesn't completely solve, the GI symptoms that crop up before my period. My endocrinologist told me that my uncomfortable periods have to do with suboptimal levels of thyroid hormone, which I've just begun to correct in the past month. I also JUST purchased a Vitamix blender and will begin making wholefood smoothies (different than a juicer in that the vitamix blends the entire veggie/fruit. no

discarded pulp.) I'm trying this based on the recommendation of a nutritionist, and because I haven't done so well with mineral supplements and my blood tests show i'm borderline low in Zinc, Magnesium, Calcium, etc. I'm wondering if my lowish nutritional status complicates my periods. I tend to think it does, as proper hormone levels are affected by nutritional status. When you say you have low sex hormones, are you speaking about Est/Progesterone? Or DHEA/Testosterone? I have very low DHEA and Testosterone and borderline low Estrogen/Progesterone. Do you supplement any of the sex hormones?Best, Nina in MA

[Guest guest]

At 09:43 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

Do you gals get looser

bowels around that time of the month?

I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being

released?

So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to

take pain killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides

debilitating anal issues that destroyed my life.

Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become

loose. It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

Is there something you do?

Or is this something that is just happening to me?

Jodi,

It happened to me all the time pre-SCD, and I will own, that once on SCD,

I wondered if it was working when I had these " episodes " until

one morning, I was sitting there, squirting away, and realized, well,

DUH! It was THAT time of the month again. And when I went back and looked

at my charts, yup, it matched up.

The only thing I did was to go to easier to digest stuff during that

time. If I'd known then what I learned from my oncologist last year, that

gamma linoleic acid (in evening primrose oil, borage oil and black

current oil; all the research on GLA has been done with EPO) could ease

out the hormone swings, and that was what she recommended for my

post-surgery hot-flashes, I'd've used more EPO during those times.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

At 09:43 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

Do you gals get looser

bowels around that time of the month?

I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being

released?

So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to

take pain killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides

debilitating anal issues that destroyed my life.

Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become

loose. It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

Is there something you do?

Or is this something that is just happening to me?

Jodi,

It happened to me all the time pre-SCD, and I will own, that once on SCD,

I wondered if it was working when I had these " episodes " until

one morning, I was sitting there, squirting away, and realized, well,

DUH! It was THAT time of the month again. And when I went back and looked

at my charts, yup, it matched up.

The only thing I did was to go to easier to digest stuff during that

time. If I'd known then what I learned from my oncologist last year, that

gamma linoleic acid (in evening primrose oil, borage oil and black

current oil; all the research on GLA has been done with EPO) could ease

out the hormone swings, and that was what she recommended for my

post-surgery hot-flashes, I'd've used more EPO during those times.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

At 09:43 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

Do you gals get looser

bowels around that time of the month?

I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being

released?

So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to

take pain killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides

debilitating anal issues that destroyed my life.

Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become

loose. It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

Is there something you do?

Or is this something that is just happening to me?

Jodi,

It happened to me all the time pre-SCD, and I will own, that once on SCD,

I wondered if it was working when I had these " episodes " until

one morning, I was sitting there, squirting away, and realized, well,

DUH! It was THAT time of the month again. And when I went back and looked

at my charts, yup, it matched up.

The only thing I did was to go to easier to digest stuff during that

time. If I'd known then what I learned from my oncologist last year, that

gamma linoleic acid (in evening primrose oil, borage oil and black

current oil; all the research on GLA has been done with EPO) could ease

out the hormone swings, and that was what she recommended for my

post-surgery hot-flashes, I'd've used more EPO during those times.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

>

> The only thing I did was to go to easier to digest stuff during that

> time. If I'd known then what I learned from my oncologist last year,

> that gamma linoleic acid (in evening primrose oil, borage oil and

> black current oil; all the research on GLA has been done with EPO)

> could ease out the hormone swings, and that was what she recommended

> for my post-surgery hot-flashes, I'd've used more EPO during those

> times.

Marilyn,

How stable is that oil?

I bought some in capsules a year or two ago, and never finished the

bottle

and wonder now if they are still viable?

TIA,

Mara

[Guest guest]

I have a *horrid* time every month. I basically have a mini-flare every month.

This is really frustrating because the book talks about being symptom-free and

it just doesn't happen. I can't figure out if it *counts* as being UC symptoms

in terms of the " one year without symptoms " that the book mentions. My UC

flares up about a week before (and during) and I almost always have to take at

least one day off from work because I'm feeling so horrible.

Last month it was MUCH better though. I still had UC symptoms but the pain was

a lot less (I didn't even have to take any pain killers!!). I'm not really sure

why this would be the reason but the only thing that I was doing differently was

my diet was restricted to fresh fruit, peanuts and cheese for at least a week

before. I had no interest in eating anything else. This time that's not what

I've been craving. Mainly I crave " savory. " I'm not sure if it's the fat or

the salt but I really go for the cheese. No good if you're interested in losing

weight!

Stacey

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

I have a *horrid* time every month. I basically have a mini-flare every month.

This is really frustrating because the book talks about being symptom-free and

it just doesn't happen. I can't figure out if it *counts* as being UC symptoms

in terms of the " one year without symptoms " that the book mentions. My UC

flares up about a week before (and during) and I almost always have to take at

least one day off from work because I'm feeling so horrible.

Last month it was MUCH better though. I still had UC symptoms but the pain was

a lot less (I didn't even have to take any pain killers!!). I'm not really sure

why this would be the reason but the only thing that I was doing differently was

my diet was restricted to fresh fruit, peanuts and cheese for at least a week

before. I had no interest in eating anything else. This time that's not what

I've been craving. Mainly I crave " savory. " I'm not sure if it's the fat or

the salt but I really go for the cheese. No good if you're interested in losing

weight!

Stacey

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

I have a *horrid* time every month. I basically have a mini-flare every month.

This is really frustrating because the book talks about being symptom-free and

it just doesn't happen. I can't figure out if it *counts* as being UC symptoms

in terms of the " one year without symptoms " that the book mentions. My UC

flares up about a week before (and during) and I almost always have to take at

least one day off from work because I'm feeling so horrible.

Last month it was MUCH better though. I still had UC symptoms but the pain was

a lot less (I didn't even have to take any pain killers!!). I'm not really sure

why this would be the reason but the only thing that I was doing differently was

my diet was restricted to fresh fruit, peanuts and cheese for at least a week

before. I had no interest in eating anything else. This time that's not what

I've been craving. Mainly I crave " savory. " I'm not sure if it's the fat or

the salt but I really go for the cheese. No good if you're interested in losing

weight!

Stacey

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

Jodi,

I don't have gut issues like my kids and husband (a fair bit of yeast, but I

only notice it when I drink and eat too many sugary things and get a yeast

infection, and it takes a lot) but I do get the looser stools when my period.

Never thought much of it, no pain or anything. Having a period is so

inconvenient with a bunch of kids and a busy life that the loose stool thing

just blends in!!

I don't think it is that unusual.

Chrissy

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

Jodi,

I don't have gut issues like my kids and husband (a fair bit of yeast, but I

only notice it when I drink and eat too many sugary things and get a yeast

infection, and it takes a lot) but I do get the looser stools when my period.

Never thought much of it, no pain or anything. Having a period is so

inconvenient with a bunch of kids and a busy life that the loose stool thing

just blends in!!

I don't think it is that unusual.

Chrissy

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

Jodi,

I don't have gut issues like my kids and husband (a fair bit of yeast, but I

only notice it when I drink and eat too many sugary things and get a yeast

infection, and it takes a lot) but I do get the looser stools when my period.

Never thought much of it, no pain or anything. Having a period is so

inconvenient with a bunch of kids and a busy life that the loose stool thing

just blends in!!

I don't think it is that unusual.

Chrissy

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

At 11:16 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

How stable is that oil? I bought

some in capsules a year or two ago, and never finished the bottle and

wonder now if they are still viable?

I legitimately do not know. <grin> I buy HUGE bottles of the stuff,

and it doesn't last long enough to go bad.

Pre-Bipap, I was using both salmon oil and EPO as anti-inflammatories for

my hip pain, and was taking as many as six or eight doses (of 4 1000 mg

salmon oil and 3 1300 mg EPO) a day. I expect that's one reason I sailed

through menopause... menopause didn't have a chance against that much

EPO!

Now I take two of those doses per day, with an extra one here or there if

I start feeling off.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

At 11:16 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

How stable is that oil? I bought

some in capsules a year or two ago, and never finished the bottle and

wonder now if they are still viable?

I legitimately do not know. <grin> I buy HUGE bottles of the stuff,

and it doesn't last long enough to go bad.

Pre-Bipap, I was using both salmon oil and EPO as anti-inflammatories for

my hip pain, and was taking as many as six or eight doses (of 4 1000 mg

salmon oil and 3 1300 mg EPO) a day. I expect that's one reason I sailed

through menopause... menopause didn't have a chance against that much

EPO!

Now I take two of those doses per day, with an extra one here or there if

I start feeling off.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

I find periods disrupt my BMs as well. From what I understand, it's not uncommon

to have little flares during that time of the month. I take birth control pills

for several months straight (doctor approved), so luckily, I don't have to deal

with it much.

On another note, I stopped my birth control pills a couple weeks before surgery.

I started getting pains in my sides (mostly my left) and other symptoms. I

checked back in my journal, and found that this happened every time I took a

week off from the pills. I had always thought it was crohn's pain, but now think

it's ovarian cysts. After a couple of weeks of increasing pains, I restarted the

pills and the pains and symptoms all went away. I wonder if I should be

concerned about this...

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

I find periods disrupt my BMs as well. From what I understand, it's not uncommon

to have little flares during that time of the month. I take birth control pills

for several months straight (doctor approved), so luckily, I don't have to deal

with it much.

On another note, I stopped my birth control pills a couple weeks before surgery.

I started getting pains in my sides (mostly my left) and other symptoms. I

checked back in my journal, and found that this happened every time I took a

week off from the pills. I had always thought it was crohn's pain, but now think

it's ovarian cysts. After a couple of weeks of increasing pains, I restarted the

pills and the pains and symptoms all went away. I wonder if I should be

concerned about this...

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

I find periods disrupt my BMs as well. From what I understand, it's not uncommon

to have little flares during that time of the month. I take birth control pills

for several months straight (doctor approved), so luckily, I don't have to deal

with it much.

On another note, I stopped my birth control pills a couple weeks before surgery.

I started getting pains in my sides (mostly my left) and other symptoms. I

checked back in my journal, and found that this happened every time I took a

week off from the pills. I had always thought it was crohn's pain, but now think

it's ovarian cysts. After a couple of weeks of increasing pains, I restarted the

pills and the pains and symptoms all went away. I wonder if I should be

concerned about this...

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

>

> Do you gals get looser bowels around that time of the month?

> I have read it may have to do with Prostaglandins being released?

>

> So, after years of having dysmenorreah and amenorreah.. With the diet and

treating my Thyroid I get my period perfect timing.

> I still have low sex hormones so my periods are uncomfortable.. but I can

function, leave the house (most days during menses) without having to take pain

killers. Pretty amazing. This really was *the* thing besides debilitating anal

issues that destroyed my life.

>

> Anyway, I am finding that every month during menses my bowels become loose.

It takes a while to get back a firm BM.

>

> Do any of you find you make different food choices for this?

> Is there something you do?

>

> Or is this something that is just happening to me?

>

> Jodi

>

[Guest guest]

Is Borage Seed Oil as good?  That's what I've used on and off and it seems to help especially if you take it a week in advance throughout.  I can't take over 1 gelcap per day though or I notice problems.

 

I don't refrigerate the gelcaps but used to keep the bottled oil you were supposed to take with it refrigerated because it goes bad fast.  Can't recall the name and never could stand taking it really.

 

Debbie 40 cd

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Wizop Marilyn L. Alm wrote:

 

At 11:16 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

How stable is that oil? I bought some in capsules a year or two ago, and never finished the bottle and wonder now if they are still viable?I legitimately do not know. <grin> I buy HUGE bottles of the stuff, and it doesn't last long enough to go bad.

Pre-Bipap, I was using both salmon oil and EPO as anti-inflammatories for my hip pain, and was taking as many as six or eight doses (of 4 1000 mg salmon oil and 3 1300 mg EPO) a day. I expect that's one reason I sailed through menopause... menopause didn't have a chance against that much EPO!

Now I take two of those doses per day, with an extra one here or there if I start feeling off.

— Marilyn    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA    Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001    Darn Good SCD Cook

    No Human Children    Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund        

[Guest guest]

Is Borage Seed Oil as good?  That's what I've used on and off and it seems to help especially if you take it a week in advance throughout.  I can't take over 1 gelcap per day though or I notice problems.

 

I don't refrigerate the gelcaps but used to keep the bottled oil you were supposed to take with it refrigerated because it goes bad fast.  Can't recall the name and never could stand taking it really.

 

Debbie 40 cd

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Wizop Marilyn L. Alm wrote:

 

At 11:16 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

How stable is that oil? I bought some in capsules a year or two ago, and never finished the bottle and wonder now if they are still viable?I legitimately do not know. <grin> I buy HUGE bottles of the stuff, and it doesn't last long enough to go bad.

Pre-Bipap, I was using both salmon oil and EPO as anti-inflammatories for my hip pain, and was taking as many as six or eight doses (of 4 1000 mg salmon oil and 3 1300 mg EPO) a day. I expect that's one reason I sailed through menopause... menopause didn't have a chance against that much EPO!

Now I take two of those doses per day, with an extra one here or there if I start feeling off.

— Marilyn    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA    Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001    Darn Good SCD Cook

    No Human Children    Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund        

[Guest guest]

Is Borage Seed Oil as good?  That's what I've used on and off and it seems to help especially if you take it a week in advance throughout.  I can't take over 1 gelcap per day though or I notice problems.

 

I don't refrigerate the gelcaps but used to keep the bottled oil you were supposed to take with it refrigerated because it goes bad fast.  Can't recall the name and never could stand taking it really.

 

Debbie 40 cd

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Wizop Marilyn L. Alm wrote:

 

At 11:16 AM 10/4/2009, you wrote:

How stable is that oil? I bought some in capsules a year or two ago, and never finished the bottle and wonder now if they are still viable?I legitimately do not know. <grin> I buy HUGE bottles of the stuff, and it doesn't last long enough to go bad.

Pre-Bipap, I was using both salmon oil and EPO as anti-inflammatories for my hip pain, and was taking as many as six or eight doses (of 4 1000 mg salmon oil and 3 1300 mg EPO) a day. I expect that's one reason I sailed through menopause... menopause didn't have a chance against that much EPO!

Now I take two of those doses per day, with an extra one here or there if I start feeling off.

— Marilyn    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA    Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001    Darn Good SCD Cook

    No Human Children    Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund        

[Guest guest]

Hi Stacey,

Have you tried taking Magnesium? Looking at your cravings for peanuts and salt

I'm guessing you may have some mineral imbalances/deficiencies. Nothing to be

worried about, but during your time of the month it might be useful to take a

mineral supplement that has a good amount of magnesium. Or just try magnesium on

its own. That will also help with cramping.

Kat

>

> I have a *horrid* time every month. I basically have a mini-flare every

month. This is really frustrating because the book talks about being

symptom-free and it just doesn't happen. I can't figure out if it *counts* as

being UC symptoms in terms of the " one year without symptoms " that the book

mentions. My UC flares up about a week before (and during) and I almost always

have to take at least one day off from work because I'm feeling so horrible.

>

> Last month it was MUCH better though. I still had UC symptoms but the pain

was a lot less (I didn't even have to take any pain killers!!). I'm not really

sure why this would be the reason but the only thing that I was doing

differently was my diet was restricted to fresh fruit, peanuts and cheese for at

least a week before. I had no interest in eating anything else. This time

that's not what I've been craving. Mainly I crave " savory. " I'm not sure if

it's the fat or the salt but I really go for the cheese. No good if you're

interested in losing weight!

> Stacey