gd Crohn’s disease makes fitness impossible. trying to calculate macros and cico is going to kill me. how do i stop being such a pathetic bitch? I going to die a blob at 35
I have colitis, I spent a long time not working out because I was sick so what's the point, or my tummy slightly hurt, but the truth is that you just have to do it anyway. The disease is not actually stopping you unless you are literally doing diarrea when you squat. Excersise is good for reducing inflammation too.
free diet and free steroids
Bro I have Crohns too and struggled with it a ton when I was younger but I finally got put on the right meds (biologics) and it's like I don't even have it anymore. Have you had surgeries and/or are you on gay meds like prednisone and methotrexate instead of the good shit?
>>77048286I have severe Crohn's. Lost 40kg by the time of my diagnosis and I was just lean beforehand. Literally looked Auschwitz tier.Suffered for years and now have some joint damage from it and osteoporosis from the steroids. Eventually found a biologic that works and im now 98kg lean, bench 2.25pl8 for reps. I've never counted macro shit tho.Obviously my story is just eventually a biologic came out that fucking worked but for a long time I believed I was utterly fucked and would just wither and die, but here I am in a sense better then ever.
Dealing with Crohn's (or any health condition) is a bitch bc you basically need to bother your doctor to keep trying new things while simultaneously optimizing your life around the things you can and cannot do. OP you need to get your doctor to put you on humira / remicade / entyvio / stelara / whatever, give it 3-6 months, and if nothing improves, try another one. Your doctor has hundreds if not thousands of patients and has no clue what shape you're in. You just need to tell them the magic words (that XYZ has not helped, I continue to experience SRQP, what else can we try) so they have some ammo to use with your insurance.Meanwhile you need to figure out what you can eat, usually it's low residue stuff like pasta and chicken and lean beef. You can't cure yourself with food (regardless of what the granola facebook mom pages say) but you can easily move the needle from bad to worse with terrible decisions. GL, you'll get better by making incrementally better decisions each day.
my financee has crohns and her joints are fucked and she has a hard time eating enough to bulk but she do
>>77048286>I going to die a blob at 35No time to waste, live as fast and hard as possible no matter the outcome. What do you have to lose?
Get on biologics. Why are you just suffering when the cure is available?
>>77050606He wants attention and pity, he puts his issue as unsolvable meaning he doesn't care about an answer, he just wants people to coddle him.Just sage and ignore, nothing of value will be lost anyway.
>>77048286So i got diagnosed with Crohns after getting the vax (i know that was retarded).this board is so anti big pharma until you have some "incurable" disease then all of a sudden youre on your knees wanting doctor pfizenburg to stick you... I agree, do what you need to do in order to get symptoms under control but after that you owe it to yourself to get to the root of it.look into trauma/stress mechanisms and how this is associate with inflammation (ACE studies). Touch grass (get grounded). drink slippery elm with bone broth, meditate, pray for healing, read the end of Platos Timaeus where he talks about disease, read saints who were herbalists.The modern system is depriving you of a great gift: true healing.I am doing much better now, zero meds (not of the schizo variety).Be well.
>>77050699unironically a true solution for inflammation and random autoimmune disorders that just show up
>>77050699>am doing much better now, zero meds (not of the schizo variety).So you're on zero pharmaceuticals, if you don't count the schizo variety? Please get your ESL under control, granola moms from facebook dot com LLM.
>>77050675im on infliximab and lift harder than most fags but i cant seem to grow muscle and i need help figuring how much food without dying
>>77050699you are fucking retarded Crohn’s is genetic
>>77050811doesn't know about epigenetics. NGMI. cope.
>>77050811It's actually a mix of several factors including genetic, but really the only thing you inherit is your susceptibility to it. That's why it's not guaranteed you will get it even if your family had it. That being said, things can trigger it like certain foods, and anything you ingest that causes you long term inflammation, but the most overlooked thing is long term stress and anxiety. Long term stress will fuck with your heart and could give you heart attacks, will make you super inflamed, mess up your immune system, ruin your sleep, hormones, your whole body is in chaos. This is where susceptibility comes in. in some, long term stress will trigger Crohn's in others it will trigger psoriasis, some basic dandruff, some will have heart issues. It's not the case for everyone, but often times stress and an unresolved mind really are the hidden culprits and should absolutely be considered. some people really did get rid of their immune issues when they stopped being constantly stressed, especially if it's a sudden reaction and not something you had from childhood.
>>77050804Is your fucking infliximab working? Have you been scoped recently? How is your calprotectin? Have you had a surgery that you're still recovering from? Again if your meds work, it feels like you don't have crohn's at all, plus or minus a few food intolerances that you figure out and then don't worry about every again.
>>77048286>Crohn’s>diagnosed at 15>34>haven't had symptoms since>been on the same meds for like 10 yearssometimes I think I was misdiagnosed
You could just eat carnivore and feel good but whatever
>>77051312Bro just count your fucking blessings, don't be a foid wanting attention just for existing.
>Crohn’sKeto diet caused it for me at 19 years old. Why did I fall for the meme diet?
>>77053008I doubt it, keto is unhealthy as shit but the reality is IBD turns up at young adulthood and you'll try to put it down to x, y and z. It's like for years they thought lsd caused schizophrenia when the reality is when do people develop schizophrenia? Early 20s. When do people try psychedelics? Early 20s.I went mad for years with my crohns putting it down to this and that, the reality is I just have it and was probably always going to.
>>77048286stop eating grains
>>77048846same here, started bilogics two years ago and I feel like I've woken up from a nightmare. my whole body doesn't hurt like it used to (I didn't even notice it until it was gone) I can eat and don't fucking suffer for hours after. I live in EU tho and the government pays for that. until bilogics I took steroids (but not the kind that makes you jacked, the ones that fuck you up) and I was repulsive, fat, inflamed, bloated ball of misery. last year I started lifting and stuffing myself with protein and now Iook better than ever. god I love communism. one dose of the med I'm on is like 6k eur.
Okay okay, I know this sounds like some premium bullshit engagement bait 4turd advice, but cigarettes CAN help some forms of Chron's disease. Ever tried smoking or other nicotine products?
>>77055559Bro, I'm as schizo as they come, but cigarette smoke is like the one of, if not THE, strongest environmental variable known to trigger CD:>Smokers are 2 to 5 times more likely to develop Crohn's disease and experience more severe symptoms.>Smoking promotes a faster progression from inflammation to stricturing (narrowing) or penetrating disease.>Smokers with CD have higher rates of relapse, hospitalization, and surgical resection, including a higher risk of recurrence after surgery.>Studies indicate that smoking cessation can lead to a 65% lower risk of flares and reduces the need for steroids and immunosuppressants.If you're gonna come into a thread and drop a TRVTH NVKE like that, at least have a link to an Alex Jones rant or something, c'mon.
>>77050804I was on infleximab for UC all of last year I don't think it my gains worse. Though I cant help but think UC has, in particular it feels like i digest food very fast and not properly. Moving onto ustekinimab tommorow. Hope it goes well. It seems infleximab didnt really work for me. I just got out of a flare up and lifting was ok though the pred made me weaker and less testy.
>>77048286Anon, best thing for you to do for long term success with this disease is go to a doctor or team of doctors that can really, truly help you with cutting edge diagnosis, therapies, and medicines. I don’t have CD but have had a horrific time with chronic digestive illness over the last 20 yrs. The best thing I ever did was go to the Mayo Clinic in MN: after years of wasting my life with stupid, uninterested, sleepy doctors telling me to come back in six months while trying their latest shit drug concoction, I finally cut through the bullshit and went to real experts. They didn’t miraculously cure me, but I got so much help that has really improved my QoL. Just do it, any way you can.
>>77048286try fasting. you might be allergic to a particular food, like they started spraying wheat with poisons to harvest it quicker in 2008 and thats where a lot of "gluten intolerance" etc came from.
>>77048286Why aren't you taking a biologic?I take one for ASIt gave me my life back.Sure there are drawbacks, but the alternative is worse.
>>77056890>Why aren't you taking a biologic?doc hasn't prescribed it
>>77057804"Hi doctor's office, despite being on xyz for n months I am still having the following symptoms, which are affecting my ability to work and my day-to-day life: ...Compared to before I got on the drug, things are (only slightly better / pretty much the same / maybe getting worse / definitely getting worse).Are there any other medications we could try instead?"Make sure it's been at least like 2 months or something idk. Sorry this is how your life is going to be until you find something that works and it all slowly fades away into being a bad dream.
>>77057896God, I hear this. Dealing with doctors and doctors’ offices is so frustrating and gay. The worst part is all the bs they put you through is for money and so some insurance Jew can avoid paying for your medicine as long as possible, nothing else.
>>77057896Having doctors be the middlemen between people and medications that they'd like to experiment with or blood tests they'd like to get is so fucking annoying, having to convince some retard who thinks you have nothing more than Chronic WebMDitis.
>>77058164>>77058260Sadly this is what I wish I knew to say when I was 23, it could have saved me a decade+ of grief.
>>77058476I'm currently working through some kind of autoimmune disease(s) and I had to learn to advocate for myself because the standard fare is that if it doesn't show up on a BMP/CMP, CBC, or Lipid panel, they don't give a fuck about it. It's an unfortunate learning experience.
>>77055926>>77058476>Sadly this is what I wish I knew to say when I was 23, it could have saved me a decade+ of grief.Same here, I feel ya. Got my 20s erased by unchecked chronic illness. And i partly did it to myself by being a good goy and “trusting the doc” like we’re all taught to do. To anyone reading this thread, if your doctor isn’t helping you or is making you wait for long periods between evaluations, get a new doctor, fast. Do not lose your best years bc of some medfag.
>>77058502Yeah, our system here in America is embarrassing, it’s all about “treating” you in the most profitable way possible because anything else would be too expensive for them. And then they have the gall to label you as a psych case when you don’t go along.
Try fecal matter transplant
>>77058608What if I ate the poop? And it was from a cute girl?
crohns seems like an extremely unnatural condition, your body isnt meant to continually leak shit
>>77058649It used to be almost strictly found in the Ashkenazi population. Now a lot more people have it.
>>77058649>extremely unnaturallook up alien limb syndrome
>>77058566Sadly things are even worse in the rest of the anglosphere like Britain and Canada, where getting biologics until you've had at least one surgery and still show symptoms while on pred or AZA. At least in America there is a path towards treatment if you play the game correctly.
>>77048286I believe BPC-157 (a peptide) might actually help fix you and it's pretty cheap. Go look around glp1 forums.
