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Thoughts on diet for ongoing healing.

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mak14989
mak14989

hey everyone...

for both anal fissures and hemmorhoids, what are your thoughts about?

plant based diets?

taking out aciditic foods?

to help with healing and sustain recurrence

thank you

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  • amu0000
    amu0000 mak14989

    Posted

    I tried juice fasting with good results or just eat fruits only and use juicy fruits oranges, berries, mango....

    • mak14989
      mak14989 amu0000

      Posted

      Hey thanks for the reply.

      can you elaborate?

      how long did you do this for? are you completely healed with no reccurmece?

      what did it consists of?

    • amu0000
      amu0000 mak14989

      Posted

      sorry for the late reply... juicing did heal me to the extent that I wasn't hurting. I did it for 14 days total. it's hard to do it for long term and I can feel the fissure is still there but is slowly healing. the only way I think to heal a fissure is to keep stool soft like icecream. I'm currently using miralax 1 or 2 caps until I get the soft stool and vaseline before passing stool. this seems to be working but it's a very slow healing process...

    • carnoe84
      carnoe84 amu0000

      Posted

      wondering how is your healing going ? like you mentioned in your comment, my fissure is healing so slow.. this is my 4th week of pain free but I can still feel the wound and that area is still very sensitive.. wondering if that is normal??

    • ab46086
      ab46086 amu0000

      Posted

      Hey Did your fissure heal? How do you prevent reopening?

  • Betty786
    Betty786 mak14989

    Posted

    i didn't have a problem with acidic food, but everyone is different so you could try cutting it out your diet. the worst thing for me was white flour. so i would suggest:

    -take magnesium citrate/oxide supplement daily: this is the best stool softener!

    -don't eat white flour foods or anything that is constipating for you

    -add kiwis, pears, prunes, flax seed to your diet

    -find a good balance between your fibre intake and water intake. too much fibre or too much water can cause really big stools

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