DIVI DINERS

Hi Lynne,hope the letter from Jon will help, it has cerainly given me more confidence about eating "proper "food. It seems  to be an area of no interest to  Divi staff .  An offer to see a dietician would probably be helpful, as an out patient . So I supose the next best thing would be your, G.P.

However , Ithink that if more "divi" sufferers join in ,we willbe able to take of each other.

Hope this helps, and hope you are painfree.

Jacqui 

Hi Jacqi,

  Yes Jon's list will be helpful, I am waiting to

Go back in to hospital for further tests as the ct

Scan suggests I now have problems both sides 

now, although my GP said it couldn't happen!

Thanks for the post as information like this

Is really helpful when you don't know where to turn. 

Lynne.

Keep with us Lynne, it will make you feel happier knowing that someone cares about you Good luck with your scan ,just lie back and think about food. 

Jacqui

Hi Lynne, have you had anything to eat.?

Jacqui

Hello Lynne 

just wondered if you are O.K. 

Jacqui

Hi Jacqui, 

Yes I'm ok, still having some pains and 

Trying to eat although I don't really want too.

Still having a metallic taste in my mouth 

from all the antibiotics so that doesn't help!

Have finished them now so hopefully it will go.

Trying to write a food diary and writing down

Suggestions I read. 

Just wondering if I will ever get back to 

'Normal' have a flexible sigmoidoscopy at the

end of the month and have heard it is very

painful! 

Does anyone ever eat salads now??

Lynne.

Hello Lynne glad you are feeling a tad better  I had the same probs 

Ifelt like a zombie when I came home, so I just stayed in bed, and drank

flavoured water the still variety. Strangely enough I didn't feel hungry  for ages so I assumed the drip content must have been liquid food .

One of the antibiotics did remove the contents of my stomach on occassions, and the metallic taste must have been stomach acid,

because that's all that was in there.That has now gone. My "viewing"

day was moved up a month , the doctor thought I would be too sore inside. All pain has now gone,thankfully, and I di stick to the no-no diet stuff that just slid down.  I don't see any salad  or raw veggies on the sheet  Probably need four stomachs like a cow to digest the stuff

Apparently the investigation only hurts whe the camera goes round the

corners but there is sedation on offer which yours truly has opted for

I keep having "wuss" moments but inevatiblity draws the moment on. You will be done before me ,so IEXPECT you to tell me that it was not

as bad as you expected Tea and a couple of (allowed ) shortbread biscuits are beckoning

Jacqueline

Lynne, first let me put your mind at rest. The procedure was not in the slightest bit painful; odd yes; but no pain The drugs they give you to clear you out are lethal. (Can't remember the name.) Do not stray more than 10 feet from your toilet. You will understand..... I had a mild sedative, but I was more interested in trying to see the screen (yes I know I am strange) than I was worrying about what he was doing. When it was done, they took me back to the specialist ward (so we were all in the same boat) and told me to rest, so I went to sleep for an hour. When I was a bit more compos mentis they just said they had found exactly as expected. Bit more advice about diet and that was it. Whilst I aopreciate relaxing is not the foremost thing on your mind, it does make all the difference during the procedure. Think if anything you like, as long as you relax. It really will help.  Hope it goes well for you.

Well egg mayo on gluten free white rolls for tea went down ok got to work to find that the bug that was going round earlier is still there great makes me even more paranoid now. 😣

what u going to have with ur home made chips i like faggots and mushy peas can eat them but not garden peas😊

off to bed to dream of chips on early 2mro got to be up at 6.30! 😋😫

morning donna, up early ,norain, so Im off to a car boot in the Hope valley

If everyone has the bug it's usually caused by people not washing   their

hands after you know what!!!!!!!!!!!

Mushy peas are as bad as all the other types, they all have skins, that's the troublemaker, hard to digest, so they sit in your little pockets

and fester

Probably some baby yorkshires and asparagus

speak soon 

                

Hi Lynne, long time not heard from you.Are you O.K.? Have you had any

   follow ups yet?

And no, I have been warned off all salads . What do I  do with a big jar of Mayo? 

 

Hi, 

Yes going ok! Just being very careful still,

I haven't had the 'investigation' yet, in 2 weeks

Not looking forward to it!

Does anyone have an issue with Fruit juice,

I was told to have it for the fibre but not sure if

It is agreeing with me, really missing my fruit.

Hope everyone is ok.

Lynne x

Hi Lynne. I have Tropicana orange juice every  morning, half a glass to 

get the tabs down, no probs .I miss fruit too. had avocados, the black 

crinkly  ones ,and bananas Plucking up courage to try a mango

Jac x

Glad you are O.K

Lynne Divi Diners HAS to be revived  

 Hello Lynne i've been scrolling through the posts and can't find out if you had your investigation and if it came out good.  Must be yards of posts and I might have passed it  

So, how did it go ?

Hi Jacqui 

  Yes had procedure, I don't want to go through that again, they had to abandon the procedure as my colon was to thickened and scared to get the camera through.

I'm not doing to bad, like everyone else up and down days. Hardly eat any fruit only bananas and can only tolerate two veg once a week usually, prefer to be on bland food, less risk.

Lynne

I'm getting a bit braver eating mangoes, and nectarines and peaches.

but take the skins off first   Really miss peas and sweet corn and ONIONS

big time.

Bit of an odd experience looking up your own rear end I over dosed on the gas and air thing, and could'nt stop heaving, so I couldn;t ask him

any questions, then I never saw him again  Story of my life !!!

Oh god, I remember the drugs to clean you out and boy, do they do just that.  Incredibly painful, much more than the actual examination.  I did ask for every sedative going so don't remember a thing - thank goodness.

Finding a diet, what and how to eat straight after an episode and then onwards is very difficult with lots of differing info out there which can be quite depressing.

Give it time you will be eating salads in no time. Though there will be days when you wonder if you will.

In the mean time try pickles and par boiled carrots. You can use honey and ginger on the carrots. Also, try vegetable soup instead of a salad.

Zucchini squash is mild and easily digested when lightly boiled.

I have read alot about onions on here. I find that if I saute them until translucent I can digest and they are a mild source of magnesium which you need to heal your gut.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: consider getting rid of gluten.