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Problems months after colon resection surgery: What Helps?
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Hi @pennye1 and @ron7614, Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Both of you have had partial bowel re-sectioning and have had some pretty significant symptoms following the surgery.
@ron7614, you will see that I moved your comment to the ongoing discussion about the same issue. I did this so you can connect with others that are going through similar situations and you can get their take the experience.
I love that one of you have a nutritionist and the other is keeping a food diary.
Is there one thing specifically that you can't have anymore that you know to stay away from?
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I have to stay away from salads, chocolate, and carbonated beverages. I eat about 8 times per day and eat the same things. Pasta, rice, breads are great. I eat a lot of carbs or bulkier items.
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I have had trouble with red meat like beef (more pain) although pork and chicken seem OK. I am currently following a gluten and lactose free diet (my wife is a celiac so we have had to be gluten free for many years) and I tend to limit dairy so I am not sure if adding lactose free is making a difference but I do eat some yogurt, ice cream and drink some milk without significant problems. I had pain when I tried adding Benefiber so I just started trying Citrucel which is insoluble fiber. I'll see how that goes.