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Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: 3 hours ago | Replies (16)
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@drdianeschneider

Hello, kayabbott, Just wondering, have you been given any medications, or any specific food requirements, for collagenous colitis? I went into complete remission from ulcerative colitis, but they did find collagenous colitis. I was not given any medication, just told, "You can keep on with mesalamine if you want to." I am mostly GF (not allergic to gluten, but abstaining from it is why I believe I went into UC remission. Thanks for your thoughts on CC.

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kayabbott | @kayabbott | 2 days ago

I mostly used my 16-year celiac food log of what irritated my 8 years of collagenous colitis (CC). There is little overlap on symptoms of the two. I am sensitive to NSAIDs, ACE II, statins, processed foods, legumes, and a lot of meds hit CC. I add kombucha and psyllium husk to some foods (psyllium adds insoluble fiber to stabilize the GI and soluble to fee the [hopefully] friendly bacteria). My doctor recommended a mostly FODMAP diet for CC. I avoided CC meds until last summer; I was diagnosed with stage 3a CKD and the nephrologist put me on very low dose lisinopril (for kidneys, not blood pressure), which wreaked havoc with my colitis; I went off the Ace II meds and on 9 mg Budesonide for 2 mo. followed by tailing off for a few weeks (GI ok now). Budesonide is a designer corticosteroid that is mostly localized to the GI tract and can decrease the abnormal thickness of collagen. https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/c/collagenous-colitis.html

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