Hi,
Something Grateful Ed posted prompted me to start a thread about food and diet both during healing and post fissure.
Whilst I was having my CRS visit this week I brought up the “when will I be able to eat normally again?” question. He told me I can start introducing everyday foods from now providing I am careful and do this on a trial and error basis, i.e. see what does and what does not affect my fissure. My current healing stage is ‘Almost Healed’ (According to my CRS) so there is no chance in the world that I am going to risk anything quite yet.
Therefore I just wondered how rigid everybody is during their fissure healing stage – Is everybody rigidly sticking to a fruit, fibre and a vegetable only diet? Is anybody drinking alcohol at the moment?
For me I only tend to eat soup, baked beans, brown rice, wholemeal bread, wholemeal pasta, etc. I do have 1 or 2 glasses of red wine on a Saturday night too and this has never caused me any problems however I must stop at 2 glasses as anymore makes my BM’s drier.
Once healed (whether this is via GTN, Botox or LIS) what is everybody’s intentions? There is no way in the world I am sticking to this diet forever – my intention is to eat an increased amount of fibre for breakfast and lunch, keep up and increased water intake and maybe take a sachet of Movicol each day but I want my evening dinner to return to normal. I also want to be able to go for a drink again with friends without any worry or go on holiday and sample new foods without concern.
I do read about people thinking that they will be on a 100% fissure friendly diet for life – does anybody else think this?
To be honest my doctor and CRS have never advised me to eat as I do at the moment, the only advice they gave me is to consume plenty of water, increase my fibre intake and to try and keep BM’s as soft as I can with stool softener’s and movicol.
Are we being too strict with ourselves?
Davo