DIVI DINERS DID DELIVER

Digestive health
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It is now over ten months plus, that I was sent home after the obligatory

treatment for D.D,with, some pain,less weight,and an inner dread of food

as well as a shed load of trepidation.

The  offered !!--Menu--!!! found me eating boiled or mashed potatoes,

scrambled eggs,custard,a few dissolved veggies, and numerous other

slippery foods.. A warning emblazened in my brain  to ""Look at food, but

don't eat IT""

Losing weight, and the will to live,and a very empty stomach.(because

my brain conjured up a vision of little devils with a brush and shovel,

who swept any food on it's way down straight into the "Pouches" and

left it to fester like an unexploded bomb.

Help was needed "big time",so I asked for it by starting DIVI DINERS

forum, and waited.

It came from other devotees of this awful D.D  What a relief to find that 

I was not the only kid on the block.

They offered food to eat, to avoid,sucesses ,disasters,to enjoy,and most

imprtantly, food to chew..

A lot of laughs,shared horror stories,new friends  (sort of &#160,and a happier outlook on life after I discovered about Probiotics, tablet form.

Since I started taking them last August,,I have become pain free,and I 

have no one to tell.

I can only presume that the Divi Diners crowd are all in good health,

I feel a tad like "E. T. having to ask if there is anybody there??,and how

are you all ?

I still can't bring myself to eat (WUSS)  crunchy veggies,toasted tea cakes , NUTS, and hot curries  and fruit cake, but I have discovered 

a small pleasure in fresh cream eclairs,and Jaffa cakes.

How is every one ?????????????????????????????

Jacqueline 

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Hi Jacqueline, like you I found a lot of great help on this forum, some from your good self, thanks. I still miss a good tomato and cucumber sandwich on seeded bread, and a hunk of fruit cake, but I'm not risking it as I feel at least I am in charge not the other way round. Touch wood I haven't had any real problems for a while now, and have found a few alternative foods (hmm cream eclairs, there's a thing I haven't tried ). I am saving the probiotic route for now, but if I get a problem I will give them a go. Glad you are doing well, perhaps on this forum no news is good news. Xx

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Hello Alex, that's two of us . Glad you are doing good. I just had a 

quick drool thinking about seeded bread etc Found a way round the tomato  barrier. I do the hot water drowning bit to get the skin off. then

scrape all the seeds out.

Seeing as there is no one else around , I will tell you. I love marrow

fat peas (forbidden) but I had such a rush to taste them again.

I opened a tin and removed EVERY pea shell, Took for ever ,but

worth it

It's eclair day tomorrow, I pick my aunt up and we get lost in

Derbyshire, then find a cafe fot tea and eclairs.

Probiotics are magic

Let's hope someone else talks to us .I kept picking up on desperate

 cases and pointed them to the D.Diners forum.,don't know if they made it,but I have just discovered the forum is on Google, so, easy peasy now.Also eat loads of mangoes   xxx 

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i have this dd,i find i have flair ups now and then but i eat a variety of food,not nuts,i eat curry,salads,fish,veg of most descriptions,junnk food,not kfc.macs,i amble along ok.i think my steroids and pensata help.i am slowly coming off steroids,(got three weeks left on these and i know i will have to get back to a decent diet,but i dont avoid my curries or hot dinners unless i am really poorly)having finished course of steroids after a weekor two even on a sesible diet it flairs up and i am back on anti biotics or steroids,vicious circle.good luck to all us suffers.

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think you should be a bit more cautious about what you put into your stomach. then your flares may not be so numerous

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I really miss eating fruit scones and hope I shall be able to eat strawberries when the season starts. I do love mangos though with yoghurt really yummy. My  main problem is constipation but occasional runs. Not pleasant when you are going out

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Strawberries are still on my "Scary " list,. Did you have any last year, with 

no repercussions ? I miss malt loaf and hot cross buns .

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Can't eat anything with currants in either 😒 strawberries upset me alot last year but am going to give them another go because I love them 😍

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You are one brave lady. I am a qualified Wuss. I can still remember the pain

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I'm not risking anything with the word berry in the name unless it's pureed and seived. Just not brave enough.

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How are you coping with veggies ? and salad leaves, I love watercress and rocket and spring onoions, and sprouts but can't sum up the courage

to start eating them again. What we need is a Dietician with ""The 

Knowlede "" to give us some direction, instead of us floundering

around. 

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Hi Jacqueline, leaves, be it cabbage, sprouts, lettuce or similar. I thought they constituted soluble fibre and were therefore ok. I tend not to have a salad much these days (tomatoes), but veg-wise it's cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, Swede, squash. Very occasionally runner beans. Alex xx

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Thanks Alex, Ive been worrying over them for months Sprouts here I come   

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Bought-----------today

sprouts

cauliflower

sweet potatoes

green beans

onions

Watch this space

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Good luck and happy eating. I've been taking antibiotics for a sinus infection and was worried when I got a few reigned in my gut. Anyway I got some probiotic pills, as recommended, from h&b and so far things are looking ok. Good advice, thanks. Alix

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you are so welcome Alix, isn't it a good feeling when something works

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hi, i need advice,i have dd and am trying to get travel insurance,everyone i try for medical screening refuses to aknowledge this dreadful problem,you can have ibs or chroans but you cant have dd,now my problem is do i get travel insurance without the screening or does dd come up as something else and nobody has told us sufferes what it is?thank you for any advice.

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Hi Daisy I wasn't aware that a lumpy colon was terminal, what is their 

problem . ? Do you have to show them proof, Maybe a DVD of your

colonoscopy might do the trick. Sorry  Daisy .I just find the situation 

ridiculous.  Maybe your GP will give you a letter . Have to say Daisy 

insurance is not an obligatory , must have . accessory. I personally 

never use it 

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Well Daisy. what  happened about the insurance ?

Could be worth asking the insurers where they got the information from about it

.On the other hand why bother ,Heart patients travel;without any agro.

If you sorted it ,where did you go, and hopefully didn't eat any 

rubbish

 

 

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I have to say I eat anything. Nuts, curries, spices, broccoli is my favourite vegetables. I had one flare after having the flu when I t a bit constipated. Apart from this I try to follow anti inflammatory diet after episodes to curb the lingering inflammation in the guts. I have also had a bit of ibs symptom st times which I took kolanticon for. This worked a treat. Ni more bloating. I refuse to give in to this stupid illness. Font care for it being chronic. Just have to get on with it. A and o us to stay regular with toilet and I font know about you out there. So

E if you may have true food allergies contributing to your symptoms. I don't. Lots of strawberries are laxating. So this may be why you can't eat too much of it. But that is a good thing for us. Clear out the pipes. . In upset to see this thing about travel insurance. I had a hunch it may be a problem. But rather than a dressing it diverticulitis try diverticular disease or diverticulosis. I doubt anyone wants to insure you with acute diverticulitis. Too risky. You will most likely end up in hospital or at least at doctors surgery