I
am not sure if I am entering another flare or not. Although, I am not a GI I
think eating a brownie sundae both Friday night and Saturday night did not
help. I am working this week on my diet to see if I can shake it off. My stools
are somewhat loose however I don’t have much pain. The pain I had in the last
flare up I was staying up at night and could feel the stabbing pain in my
stomach. There have been some instances where I have had a flare for one day
and then the next day I am perfectly fine. Next week I see my GI and I have a
bunch of questions for him so hopefully that will help.
In
somewhat IBD related
news there now might be a possible cure for c. difficle with “fake” stools.
Researcher Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe and her research team created an artificial
stool which is grown in the Robo-gut (looks like vanilla milkshake). The
procedure is seen as a super probotic. Normally fecal transplants are done
which can knock out the c.diff but is not pleasant for patients. Doing the
fecal transplant repopulates a person’s colon.
When
I was in the hospital my father was 110% sure I had c.diff. He kept asking the
doctors to run stool analysis tests and he researched the way stool analysis
had to be done and my GI told him that he was pretty sure it was Crohn’s before
the colonoscopy and then confirmed I had Crohn’s after.
I
would love to see this tried first in more people with c.diff and then people
with IBD to see if there is any help it can provide. The problem is often times
these things can take years to get onto the market because of approval,
compliance, regulation, and other burdensome requirements.
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