Another flare... people on no meds get them too?

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So, I was doing sooo good for the past 5 months on SCD after knocking out a bad 6 month straight flare with steroids. Unfortunatly I had to go back on them this time. I think my flare is due to me getting a cold and eating alot of home made applesauce (very sweet). Last time I got sick I had a mini flare during my cold. Now, worse cold... worse flare to the point I had to go back on some meds I was previously off of! Booo...

So, with that background info... here's my question.

After being on SCD for years and being med free, do you sometimes get fares? Maybe when you get sick? Eat the wrong food? -UC - 1+ yearsSCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.Asacol - 5 pills a day Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now.

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You recover a lot faster and what used to be two weeks is now a couple of days (hopefully) if you can get some yogurt and chicken soup going--which I just got at the store.  Not feeling too great the last couple of days and it's going to a hard freeze so I'd probably like drinking the warm yogurt as soon as it comes out of the maker!

 

Debbie 40 cd

 

PS Yes I also got a refill for Pentasa today so it varies on how good you are with strictness and stress, colds, whatever...maybe no reason.  I say it came for no reason and went for no reason even when I didn't change a thing and in spite of the doctors switching up the medicine, etc. etc. and one thing that always helps is the homemade yogurt/chicken soup combo.  If I can stay remotely legal then I seem to do ok.

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Hi ,

I'm so sorry to hear about your flare.....That really stinks

Thankfully, my dd has only had what I would term " mini flares " since getting off

meds 2.5 years ago. When she starts feeling crummy, she just lays in bed with a

heating pad and we go right back to intro and she basically just eats chicken

soup for a few days. This has happened three times or so, and we've always been

able to knock it out. I have learned the hard way to always keep chicken soup

in the freezer!

I think many people w IBD find that a cold can trigger a flare, so perhaps bring

your diet down a stage or two when you feel yourself coming down w a cold? (I

know the applesauce was Stage 1, but maybe w. other things stashed in the

freezer you would have had more options of other things to eat and not eaten so

much of it?).

One mini flare for my dd was def. caused by food. In the Spring (after 3 years

SCD and 2 med-free) we started adding in organic brown rice to her diet a few

times a week, and in small amounts. 2 weeks later, she was flat on the sofa and

feeling crummy . No more rice for the forseeable future!

Hang in there,

Ellen

12 y/o dd scd for 3.5 years for Crohn's

med-free for 2.5 years and doing great

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> So, I was doing sooo good for the past 5 months on SCD after knocking out a

bad 6 month straight flare with steroids. Unfortunatly I had to go back on them

this time. I think my flare is due to me getting a cold and eating alot of home

made applesauce (very sweet). Last time I got sick I had a mini flare during my

cold. Now, worse cold... worse flare to the point I had to go back on some meds

I was previously off of! Booo...

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> So, with that background info... here's my question.

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> After being on SCD for years and being med free, do you sometimes get fares?

Maybe when you get sick? Eat the wrong food?

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> UC - 1+ years

> SCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.

> Asacol - 5 pills a day

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Yes. Well, it's happened to me anyway. After doing 3 or 4 years of strict SCD

I had a massive flare that sent me to the ER and put me back on prednisone after

being off it for the longest time yet. Heh...so I completely understand the

frustration you're feeling! Then I had another big one 5 months later. I'm not

entirely sure what caused it and neither is my doc (except that the first one

might have been a side effect of an intussusception healing itself but there's

no way to be sure). I don't eat anything illegal and they came on SUPER

suddenly. I was perfectly fine the day before the last one and then I woke up

and had to rush to the bathroom upwards of 30 times that day and saw an

increasing amount of blood every time. I wish I could pinpoint what was going

on since it doesn't seem diet or illness related and I'm scared it's going to

happen again. I hope you feel better soon and are able to get back off the

meds!

Stacey

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> So, I was doing sooo good for the past 5 months on SCD after knocking out a

bad 6 month straight flare with steroids. Unfortunatly I had to go back on them

this time. I think my flare is due to me getting a cold and eating alot of home

made applesauce (very sweet). Last time I got sick I had a mini flare during my

cold. Now, worse cold... worse flare to the point I had to go back on some meds

I was previously off of! Booo...

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> So, with that background info... here's my question.

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> After being on SCD for years and being med free, do you sometimes get fares?

Maybe when you get sick? Eat the wrong food?

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> -

> UC - 1+ years

> SCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.

> Asacol - 5 pills a day

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> _________________________________________________________________

> Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free.

> http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/

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