This is a follow-up to two other posts that I wrote. The first of these, Diet, was written 1.5 years ago towards the end of 2013. The second, Diet 2, I wrote just a few days later. I wrote a celebratory Full Diet post when my surgeon permitted me to resume eating normally late last year. However, after that post I experienced a bowel obstruction and was reduced the liquid diet again for a while.
Since the first of these posts, I had a small bowel resection in which the diseased portions of my small bowel were removed. That included a fistula (a hole in my intestine) and several strictures (almost closed off portions of the small bowel). The normal / healthy size of the small bowel is approximately 1 inch to 1.5 inches in diameter. At one point my small bowel was down to about 0.2 inches in diameter.
The correction of this problem has tremendously altered what I can and can't eat as well as changed other aspects of my life - mostly the chart has switch to "I can eat"!
My current, post-operative, food chart looks like this:
I can now eat almost anything that I want. I rarely get cramping or gas unless I consume very specific items. This now only includes carbonated beverages, alcohol, or soy protein. I can sneak in some carbonated beverages provided they're served in an open container. This allows the worst of the carbonation to release into the air before I drink it.
I have very high hopes that as Remicade brings the inflammation of my disease under control that I will be able to resume drinking moderate amounts of alcohol when the mood strikes me. However, I will probably continue to avoid the soy proteins and carbonated beverages. I'm just too much in the habit of not drinking them and I don't really miss them much.
Since the first of these posts, I had a small bowel resection in which the diseased portions of my small bowel were removed. That included a fistula (a hole in my intestine) and several strictures (almost closed off portions of the small bowel). The normal / healthy size of the small bowel is approximately 1 inch to 1.5 inches in diameter. At one point my small bowel was down to about 0.2 inches in diameter.
The correction of this problem has tremendously altered what I can and can't eat as well as changed other aspects of my life - mostly the chart has switch to "I can eat"!
My current, post-operative, food chart looks like this:
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Food Type
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Bleeding
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Obstruction
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Cramping
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Gas
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Diarrhea
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No issues
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Nuts
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Popcorn & coconut
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High fiber vegetables
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Carbonated
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Often
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Often
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Alcohol
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Often
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Often
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Often
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Spicy foods
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Ensure / soy protein
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Rarely
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Rarely
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Often
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Caffeine
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Dairy
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Gluten
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Low residue
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Multivitamin
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Pureed vegetables
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I can now eat almost anything that I want. I rarely get cramping or gas unless I consume very specific items. This now only includes carbonated beverages, alcohol, or soy protein. I can sneak in some carbonated beverages provided they're served in an open container. This allows the worst of the carbonation to release into the air before I drink it.
I have very high hopes that as Remicade brings the inflammation of my disease under control that I will be able to resume drinking moderate amounts of alcohol when the mood strikes me. However, I will probably continue to avoid the soy proteins and carbonated beverages. I'm just too much in the habit of not drinking them and I don't really miss them much.
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