Food Sensitivity Test

Did you have food sensitivities prior to your surgery? What are your current problems with food? Do you have chronic pouchitis?

Sue

I only ever had problems with food pre-pouch during a flair, in which I really wasn't able to eat a whole lot of anything. I think my pouch has never really calmed down since takedown. At first they told me I had pouchitis and treated it with antibiotics (just got off another dose of them on Friday) and it may have helped a little but nothing to the extent that I think it was supposed to. They then put me on VSL #3 and that doesn't really seem to do much either.

I'm wondering if I might instead have cuffitis because the symptoms I have seem comparable to symptoms of cuffitis that I've read about. I have some leftover Canasa from when I still had a colon and so I started using that to see if it helps because it did help me before.

As far as the food sensitivity test, I just think it would be interesting to see what foods affect me (I'm pretty sure I can't have dairy anymore, not sure about gluten) and if changing my diet could in fact help with whatever is going on in my intestines still.