Stumped by exhaustion

[Geoff Stilwell]

I may be stating the obvious here....you need to start looking after your body. Start eating proper healthy food. Cut out bread...thats an absolute no no with Crohn's, no potatoes..ie starchy foods. The basics facts are your system cannot absorb certain foods so if your eating s**t then you will feel s**t. You MUST look at your diet first. List what you eat and the reaction you get to it. For example...if you eat rice then try it braised not boiled. Thats much healthier. Have Sweet Potato instead of normal spuds. Have lots of root veg...try parsnip chips or sweet potato chips...there are fab. Be careful of certain fruit. If you eat a grape then peel it. Don't eat the skin. Your stomach cannot digest the skin. Hope this helps.

[Gaffer]

Geoff Stilwell said:

I may be stating the obvious here....you need to start looking after your body. Start eating proper healthy food. Cut out bread...thats an absolute no no with Crohn's, no potatoes..ie starchy foods. The basics facts are your system cannot absorb certain foods so if your eating s**t then you will feel s**t. You MUST look at your diet first. List what you eat and the reaction you get to it. For example...if you eat rice then try it braised not boiled. Thats much healthier. Have Sweet Potato instead of normal spuds. Have lots of root veg...try parsnip chips or sweet potato chips...there are fab. Be careful of certain fruit. If you eat a grape then peel it. Don't eat the skin. Your stomach cannot digest the skin. Hope this helps.

Absolutely crap. I have had Crohns since I was a child and I only every had flare ups when I tried to be good and cut out all the so called wrong foods. Since I stopped caring, I have been fine.

My last major incident was when I went on a full 5 day drinking bender and ate nothing but fried pub food, if I was eating at all.

The more you panic and stress yourself, the worse it gets.

Re> B12 injections, they are fantastic and you should be bouncing round like Tigger within a few hours of having a shot. You also can tell when you are running low and due another dose.

I haven't had any B12 in years, well since I left the UK for sunnier climbs, so its not always necessary.

Claire

Edited by Gaffer on Saturday 1st December 16:05

[Geoff Stilwell]

Lucky you. Not everyone is the same. I was just stating the obvious from my experience and dealing with 3 members of the family who suffer.

[TVR Sagaris]

Gaffer said:

Geoff Stilwell said:

I may be stating the obvious here....you need to start looking after your body. Start eating proper healthy food. Cut out bread...thats an absolute no no with Crohn's, no potatoes..ie starchy foods. The basics facts are your system cannot absorb certain foods so if your eating s**t then you will feel s**t. You MUST look at your diet first. List what you eat and the reaction you get to it. For example...if you eat rice then try it braised not boiled. Thats much healthier. Have Sweet Potato instead of normal spuds. Have lots of root veg...try parsnip chips or sweet potato chips...there are fab. Be careful of certain fruit. If you eat a grape then peel it. Don't eat the skin. Your stomach cannot digest the skin. Hope this helps.

Absolutely crap. I have had Crohns since I was a child and I only every had flare ups when I tried to be good and cut out all the so called wrong foods. Since I stopped caring, I have been fine.

My last major incident was when I went on a full 5 day drinking bender and ate nothing but fried pub food, if I was eating at all.

The more you panic and stress yourself, the worse it gets.

Re> B12 injections, they are fantastic and you should be bouncing round like Tigger within a few hours of having a shot. You also can tell when you are running low and due another dose.

I haven't had any B12 in years, well since I left the UK for sunnier climbs, so its not always necessary.

Claire

Edited by Gaffer on Saturday 1st December 16:05

I agree with Gaffer I'm afraid Geoff: I've managed my Crohn's successfully for years without peeling grapes. When I was first diagnosed I tried to do exactly what you recommend; I cut out foods which seemed to cause problems and did my best to avoid foods that are well known to be difficult to digest. But it didn't work and it just made life far more difficult than it needed to be.

Since my surgery I've been completely relaxed about it and, until now, have felt much better for it. That doesn't mean, of course, that I binge on McDonald's every day, but it means I'm comfortable having fish and chips for tea every so often.

[StevieBee]

Right then. I'm not a doctor and have no knowledge of your condition. All I can say is that i have previously found myself exhausted too early in the day and sometimes all day. I decided to take action and did the following:

1) Bought a really, really good bed.
2) Get fit (not just exercise)
3) Bin the fags
4) Cut down on the booze
5) Eat healthy foods - whole foods as much as possible and eat little but regularly
6) Learn to chill

It took about 6 months. I now get tired when it's time for bed, remain more productive for all of the day, wake refreshed and feel great. I cam't say which of the above did it for me but I guess a little of all them had an effect.

[Slink]

StevieBee said:

Right then. I'm not a doctor and have no knowledge of your condition. All I can say is that i have previously found myself exhausted too early in the day and sometimes all day. I decided to take action and did the following:

1) Bought a really, really good bed.
2) Get fit (not just exercise)
3) Bin the fags
4) Cut down on the booze
5) Eat healthy foods - whole foods as much as possible and eat little but regularly
6) Learn to chill

It took about 6 months. I now get tired when it's time for bed, remain more productive for all of the day, wake refreshed and feel great. I cam't say which of the above did it for me but I guess a little of all them had an effect.

weeell, yes that would be good if you are a fit and healthy, but chorines screws with a few different things not just guts, its the entire digestive system, and if its really bad it can interfere with the tubes coming out of the kidneys [scar tissue in the gut+strictures, and abcesses] by pressing on the tubes. ive had to have a kidney stent cause thats what happerned to me, but mine was till about 6-8osh months ago REALLY bad, had a iron/heamaglobin lvl of 6.5 out of 14, and was really ill.

OP, are you anaemic atall? cause when I was, i was getting light headed from just walking round and if i was standing then bent over, it was like i was going to pass out.