If you have inflammatory bowel disease...
did you/do you follow the Specific Carbohydrate Diet? If you do, would you comment on it, especially on how hard it was to follow it and whether you saw improvement in your condition? If you didn't, why didn't you? Do you follow some other diet you find helpful? If you were on the diet while nursing, did you find that you could maintain body weight and make enough milk? I have two nurslings and it's because of them I'm finally thinking of sucking it up and trying the SCD for a few months.
See, I'm on my fourth flare-up this year, and I'm getting fed up. I'm looking at a lifetime on Asacol and I don't like that idea. That's why I keep flaring up; I keep trying to wean myself from the meds, which is just stupid I know but I hate them so much especially with two nurslings to worry about.
Here are my worries:
1. DH won't follow it, and I don't think I want to limit my kids' food choices that much. So I'd be eating separate meals often. That means a lot of extra time on food preparation, and I'm already short on time.
2. It's likely to be a lot more expensive than how I eat now. Right now I eat a mostly vegetarian diet based mostly on rice and other grains, beans, and the produce I either grow myself or get from the CSA. I do eat eggs, meat, poultry, and fish sometimes, but not daily. I'm pretty strapped for cash and all the meat and stuff would be expensive. Honestly, I only pay $10 a month for the meds, and that's cheaper than ANY diet I could try. And probiotics, especially VSL#3, which I understand is the most effective, are WAY beyond my means.
3. I'm dairy-free until my son weans, which means no yoghurt and no cottage cheese, which seem to be staples on the SCD. He's casein-intolerant, and reacts badly to even small amounts of dairy in my diet.
I need to do something; I can see that clearly, that my current way of eating isn't working for my gut. But I just don't know if this is the diet for me, or if there are other ways of healing my gut that would work better for my lifestyle. I would love to hear whatever advice anybody has!
did you/do you follow the Specific Carbohydrate Diet? If you do, would you comment on it, especially on how hard it was to follow it and whether you saw improvement in your condition? If you didn't, why didn't you? Do you follow some other diet you find helpful? If you were on the diet while nursing, did you find that you could maintain body weight and make enough milk? I have two nurslings and it's because of them I'm finally thinking of sucking it up and trying the SCD for a few months.
See, I'm on my fourth flare-up this year, and I'm getting fed up. I'm looking at a lifetime on Asacol and I don't like that idea. That's why I keep flaring up; I keep trying to wean myself from the meds, which is just stupid I know but I hate them so much especially with two nurslings to worry about.
Here are my worries:
1. DH won't follow it, and I don't think I want to limit my kids' food choices that much. So I'd be eating separate meals often. That means a lot of extra time on food preparation, and I'm already short on time.
2. It's likely to be a lot more expensive than how I eat now. Right now I eat a mostly vegetarian diet based mostly on rice and other grains, beans, and the produce I either grow myself or get from the CSA. I do eat eggs, meat, poultry, and fish sometimes, but not daily. I'm pretty strapped for cash and all the meat and stuff would be expensive. Honestly, I only pay $10 a month for the meds, and that's cheaper than ANY diet I could try. And probiotics, especially VSL#3, which I understand is the most effective, are WAY beyond my means.
3. I'm dairy-free until my son weans, which means no yoghurt and no cottage cheese, which seem to be staples on the SCD. He's casein-intolerant, and reacts badly to even small amounts of dairy in my diet.
I need to do something; I can see that clearly, that my current way of eating isn't working for my gut. But I just don't know if this is the diet for me, or if there are other ways of healing my gut that would work better for my lifestyle. I would love to hear whatever advice anybody has!
