i had parts of my colon removed. i'm fine, but i have diarrhea everyday and can't seem to find a right diet for me! what can i do?
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hi, tara! every doctor is different with regard to your post-op regimen. by four months, i was on regular food, but you still may want to talk to the chefs at the restaurants. once you've been gastrically altered, protein is your very best friend, so they may be able to adapt a meal to make it heavy on the proteins. i even had a chef make me a pasta dish without the pasta on one of my walt disney world trips post-op. for the most part, you should be able to browse the menu and find something, but if you don't see something you think you can safely eat, you can ask for something else. you'll learn once you have your surgery and start eating real food again that some things are more tolerable than others, and you will want to stick with the things you know you can eat. i speak from experience that it is no fun to try a new food on vacation and end up laying on a theme park bathroom floor until your stomach feels better! talk to your surgeon to make sure you know what his dos and donts are, browse the menus at allears.net to see what is typically on the menus at the restaurants you want to try, and go from there. i'm so excited to have a new neighbor in loserville! good luck with your upcoming surgery, and if you need me, i'm right here! brief answer: take probiotic, rifaximin detailed answer: hello! thanks for putting your query in hcm. i am a gastroenterologist. i can understand your concerns feeling of incomplete evacuation is a complaint to be treated symptomatically i will advise you to take a course of probiotic, lots of... oatmeal made me feel ill, i don't get used to it. and made want to puke. but after eating it, i don't feel hungry fast. but it made me diarrhea take the metformin with meals . this will relieve the tummy symptoms.<br><br>best wishes eat a well balanced diet. eating more, smaller meals instead of 3 big meals can help. exercise more-depending on what you have or if you go to a gym. you could always run on a treadmill, the eliptical machines are good. core secrets by gunnar peterson (he works with a lot of celebrities) is a good workout system increase your fluid intake, have water at every 1hour also include fruit juices, shakes , coconut water etc. refrain from caffeine as it causes dehydration. i do not have crohn's but have had gerd for 2 years now. maybe some of what helps me will carry over. i know gerd can turn into crohn's or ibs...i had pretty good luck helping digestion with betaine hcl with pepsin supplements along with licorice and gentian root.i tried skullcap to relax digestion for a while but that stuff is weird.most recently i have been taking "source naturals essential enzymes" 2 a meal with great success and no longer take the acid increasers.i took a blood test for food intolerance and eliminated the two items which were eggs and whey protein. this made absolutely no difference. i have since dropped dairy and almost all carbs accept rice and oatmeal and then eat meat like crazy. no garlic, alcohol, onions, nsaids, benedryl, caffeine etc.i still need pepto every night to sleep.i think it all started when i was given extremely strong antibiotics from a dr when i had strep and mono. had diarrhea for a month after that and now this...try the enzymes and eating almost straight meat - like chicken and fish along with rice for a while.good luck. just be careful afterwards when eating, you don't want to pop out the clot and get dry socket. i had that and wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. dear perm<br>you just have very active bowel movements - this is called borborygmi and is quite normal.<br>you can try to reduce the noise by eating regular small meals, avoiding gas forming foods and gassy cooldrinks, and drinking enough water.<br><br>dr bets stress unquestionably plays a very significant role in spastic colon and similar conditions. whether you still need to be takign zoloft depends on why he put you on it, and what his diagnopsis was. maybe he should be asked to review the situation and the treatment plan. cbt style counselling to let you handle streses better may be more useful