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What You Eat in Private, You Wear in Public
Digestive Health | Last Active: Mar 19 8:21pm | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
@busyyaya You sound very organized. I understand the need to be as I also have colitis. Right now I just eat what I feel like but also very often end up in the bathroom or worse. 🥴 I would really like to be able to identify the foods that cause this but so far there doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason. Would you be so kind as to explain your system of alarms? I am very interested.
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Not sure what type of phone you have I use iPhone, I attached picture. Basically I hit the plus button top right and the screen in picture shows what I get. You can type in text for food and medication reminders. It’s helped me remember food and meds at specific times. You can specify the added days to be reminded at that time you chose.
I'm in a FB group for people with LARS. Several members there have recommended the use of an app called mySymptoms (for Android phones, it has a different name for iPhones). You record your meals with precision (all ingredients), your meds, your sleep, your exercise, your mood, and your bowel movements and the app aims at drawing correlations (not causes) between food and BMs, for example.
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I can relate. I was diagnosed with microscopic colitis after seven months of House arrest due to everything sliding right through me. There’s a colon-specific steroid that after about a four month course, I was all good.
It can only be diagnosed from random biopsies in the. Colon - so during a colonoscopy is perfect. You might ask if they intend to test for that.