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Along with symptom overlap, there's also treatment overlap. It's often a case of trial and error to figure out which med is best for each person. I'm one of the lucky people here in that it only took two tries to find a maintenance med that works for me.
I wouldn't bother with what your family thinks of it right now. They don't understand what you're going through. For the time being all that matters is that you begin to feel better.View Thread

I dug around and found one of my old posts with an IBD starter diet. Not everyone has trouble with all of it, and of course there's always something else that a person could react to.
* eat smaller meals at more frequent intervals
* avoid eating many processed foods
* avoid citrus fruit and anything highly acidic
* reduce the amount of rich, greasy and fried foods
* limit consumption of milk and milk products
* restrict your intake of high-fiber foods
* avoid whole corn (inc popcorn)
* cut back on sugary foods
* avoid alcohol (esp beer)View Thread

http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2012/08/get-ready-to-swallow-digital-pills.htmlView Thread

Btw coffee is popular with anyone with constipation as it's known to get the bowels moving, so that's not weird at all.View Thread


* eat smaller meals at more frequent intervals
* avoid eating many processed foods
* avoid citrus fruit and anything highly acidic
* reduce the amount of rich, greasy and fried foods
* limit consumption of milk and milk products
* restrict your intake of high-fiber foods
* avoid whole corn (inc popcorn)
* cut back on sugary foods
* avoid alcohol (esp beer)
I've read comments on here that raw fruit and veg is a problem with Crohn's but cooked is better tolerated.
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Crohn's is autoimmune in nature, so it's not uncommon to have more than one thing going on. I know - not what you wanted to hear.
The diets are not that far apart, so it's possible to do it. For diverticulitis "People may be placed on a low residue diet. This low-fiber diet gives the colon adequate time to heal without needing to be overworked. Later, patients are placed on a high-fiber diet." The IBD starter diet I've posted on here before is:
* eat smaller meals at more frequent intervals
* avoid eating many processed foods
* avoid citrus fruit and anything highly acidic
* reduce the amount of rich, greasy and fried foods
* limit consumption of milk and milk products
* restrict your intake of high-fiber foods
* avoid whole corn (inc popcorn)
* cut back on sugary foods
* avoid alcohol (esp beer)
That should give you something to work from. I know diverticulitis says high fiber later, but right now think about right now. You need to get your insides to calm down before you can look towards what you need to do next.
You didn't list anything - are you taking any meds, supplements, vitamins, etc?View Thread

http://glutenfreediet.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/dermatitis_herpetiformis.jpgView Thread
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