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cherie012 Apprentice
cherie012
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OK. I know the whole BM topic is kind of gross, but..you all will totally understand, I hope..... He had his first EVER in his life NORMAL BM!!!!! OMG OMG I am SOOOOOOOOOO happy!!!!! Oh happy day!!!! I think this is it! This is the key! No meds! I told the DR we already began a food trial, and our results so far..... Oh I hope this continues! Maybe he'll gain and grow now.... :D:lol:

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tarnalberry
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LoL! :-)

Congratulations!

Smunkeemom Enthusiast
Smunkeemom
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Oh I remember the first normal BM that Annika had after her start on the gluten-free diet. I thought about recording it in her baby book LOL

Congrats, it's a great feeling when you know your kid is feeling better. It makes you feel like all this work (figureing out the diet) really is worth it.

:D

dlp252 Apprentice
dlp252
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Where else but here would everyone TOTALLY understand! :) Congratulations!

VydorScope Proficient
VydorScope
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Woot! COngrats! Yea, prbly everyone here can relate LOL what a world we live in , eh?

traveljunkie Rookie
traveljunkie
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:) Yeah!!! It's so wierd wierd how we get excited about poop! :P Keep on with the diet, it seems to be the answer!!

Charlene

Guest nini
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YAYYYYYYY!! Doing the happy poopy dance!!!! :lol::lol::lol::lol:

I do remember the first time my daughter had a solid bm after going gluten free! I thought it was a MIRACLE!!!!!

yeah, where else would people TOTALLY understand! Congrats!

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cherie012 Apprentice
cherie012
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Ya know, I was SO happy, I called my family ( poor people LOL) DH, and wrote the ped GI... I am ESTATIC. I mean, that is a BIG first around here. sounds SO silly, but man! We can do this. It seems to be helping... :huh: Thank you all SOOOOO much for tolerating my insessant questioning, LOL. You all helped seal the deal for me to start gluten-free first......

:D:D

taweavmo3 Enthusiast
taweavmo3
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Oh yeah, we all TOTALLY get how excited you must be! I'm so glad you are already seeing results...that makes any challenges you face completely worth it!

What's funny, is that I'm so used to talking about BM's, I forget sometimes that others are still quite embarrassed to talk about it. So, I'll be spouting off about Ben's diarrhea, or whatever......and I'll get the strangest looks from some people. Even my dad, he hates it when I even say the word diarrhea. I don't even think twice about it anymore, it's part of our normal daily conversation these days when it comes to talking about the kids!

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Rachel--24
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Thats great news! Wasnt it just a couple days ago the doctor was suggesting meds? Sounds like your child is responding very quickly to the diet change so I'm sure you have your answer now. :)

cherie012 Apprentice
cherie012
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Thats great news! Wasnt it just a couple days ago the doctor was suggesting meds? Sounds like your child is responding very quickly to the diet change so I'm sure you have your answer now. :)

I had put him on the diet myself last week~ it wasn't hard because he's small, and the main thing I had to do was replace his snack foods~ generally dry cherios or puffed wheat, or crackers with other things. we beefed up his fresh fruit and veggie intake as well instead of the other snacks he was using, and put rice cereals in place of the wheat, rice crackers in place of the others. There wasn't an immediate change~ but it tapered down to same ol same ol but 2 times one day, to one, and today was "normal" His dr said saturday on the phone he wanted to do drugs first, because he didn't want to restrict his diet ( I already had resticted it, but wasn't really hopeful after my conversation with him that it would work at all, since it had been a few days and still no change.)

Judyin Philly Enthusiast
Judyin Philly
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OK. I know the whole BM topic is kind of gross, but..you all will totally understand, I hope..... He had his first EVER in his life NORMAL BM!!!!! OMG OMG I am SOOOOOOOOOO happy!!!!! Oh happy day!!!! I think this is it! This is the key! No meds! I told the DR we already began a food trial, and our results so far..... Oh I hope this continues! Maybe he'll gain and grow now.... :D:lol:

Congrats....It must be awful to see your child go through this...I know how i felt about my first formed BM 20 weeks ago after 10 years.....what a wonderful season blessing.

judy in philly

mytummyhurts Contributor
mytummyhurts
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His dr said saturday on the phone he wanted to do drugs first, because he didn't want to restrict his diet

That's really weird to me...he's concerned about your child not being able to eat a few things that could possibly be causing serious damage...but he's okay with putting a bunch of chemicals in him? :huh:

cherie012 Apprentice
cherie012
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That's really weird to me...he's concerned about your child not being able to eat a few things that could possibly be causing serious damage...but he's okay with putting a bunch of chemicals in him? :huh:

It was odd to us, too. He wanted to put him on steroids, and a ulcerative colitis med that has nasty side effects~ some are brain injury in children under 2..... Blood issues, etc. It had to be taken with folic acid... He wanted to see if that helped ebfore doing diet changes.. :huh:

We tend to do lots of japanese style foods in this house, so eliminating gluten for the kids isn't that bad ( say, as it is for me who is a total bread/baked good/fast food addict, lol). the main culprits of gluten here were breakfast cereals that were eaten as snacks, crackers, breaded chicken etc... the kids don't care much for bread/sandwiches.

Smunkeemom Enthusiast
Smunkeemom
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What's funny, is that I'm so used to talking about BM's, I forget sometimes that others are still quite embarrassed to talk about it. So, I'll be spouting off about Ben's diarrhea, or whatever......and I'll get the strangest looks from some people. Even my dad, he hates it when I even say the word diarrhea. I don't even think twice about it anymore, it's part of our normal daily conversation these days when it comes to talking about the kids!

yeah. I get into that too. My husband has Crohns and my kids have celiac, and I have some type of IBS so we talk about poop at our house a lot.

"How are you today?"

"okay, my crohns is bothering me"

"solid, or rhea?"

"water rhea"

"I will go get the immodium"

it's a natural conversation for us, when other people figure that out they are less embarassed, but it's difficult to remember that other families aren't so open about thier bathroom stuff.

:P

e&j0304 Enthusiast
e&j0304
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I'm so happy for your little guy!

That's wonderful news. Drs. are so quick to drug people and I really feel that it is most time unwarrented.

I wish your little boy the best of luck with his new diet. We have seen amazing results with it ourselves.

Take care!

Shannon

Guest nini
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I just wanted to mention, since you said that Cheerios had been one of his fave snacks, that Glutino is now making several flavors of a gluten free cereal that is very much like Cheerios! I like the Honey Nut version!

katerinvon Rookie
katerinvon
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I had put him on the diet myself last week~ it wasn't hard because he's small, and the main thing I had to do was replace his snack foods~ generally dry cherios or puffed wheat, or crackers with other things. we beefed up his fresh fruit and veggie intake as well instead of the other snacks he was using, and put rice cereals in place of the wheat, rice crackers in place of the others. There wasn't an immediate change~ but it tapered down to same ol same ol but 2 times one day, to one, and today was "normal" His dr said saturday on the phone he wanted to do drugs first, because he didn't want to restrict his diet ( I already had resticted it, but wasn't really hopeful after my conversation with him that it would work at all, since it had been a few days and still no change.)

Congrats, and good for you to be willing to try something else. I've been a nurse for ten years, and I know that doctors don't have all the answers. No one could possibly be educated in every detail of everything that can go wrong with the human body. And, like everyone else, some are more open to suggestion than others.

My daughter is undiagnosed, on the diet, and durring her last really bad episode, the Dr. (not our regular one) told us not to worry, it's probably just a virus, and gave us an antifungal for her raw bum, even after my husband explained her history. (Sigh)

Thankfully, we have the resourses, time, energy, and motivation to search out all the tiny details of something that affects our children. Try doing that for 30-50 people with 30-50 problems every day, and you can see why our Drs won't always go that extra mile. (Again, sigh)

Good luck and much happiness in your gluten free travels. :)

Karen

jenvan Collaborator
jenvan
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Small victories! Woo hoo!!

cherie012 Apprentice
cherie012
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Karen, I am a RN too, but not GI, LOL. I am very new to this realm, starting with the birth of my son... I know they don't have all of the answers, but sometimes feel strange not taking thier advise, when generally it is sound. But, he is having positive results, no matter what the tests may or maynot say. It could be coincidental, but I doubt it. I will keep on going for awhile, and then trial him to see what happens. If it comes back, then we know, right?

Thanks to all!

katerinvon Rookie
katerinvon
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Karen, I am a RN too, but not GI, LOL. I am very new to this realm, starting with the birth of my son... I know they don't have all of the answers, but sometimes feel strange not taking thier advise, when generally it is sound. But, he is having positive results, no matter what the tests may or maynot say. It could be coincidental, but I doubt it. I will keep on going for awhile, and then trial him to see what happens. If it comes back, then we know, right?

Thanks to all!

I'm not a GI specialist, either. Ask me about wounds, I'll tell you about wounds! (My daughter's rash ulcers looked like stage II-III decubetis ulcers!)

I agree, too, that we should not give up on our Drs, just not take everything they have to say as gosple. :) At least research what he tells you so you understand what is going on. :) Education is our best defence!

Karen

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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So happy to hear you put him on the diet yourself and are seeing positive results. I was so hoping he wouldn't have to go on the harsh steroids--Dr. gave them to me when they still thought my symptoms were a result of recurring sinus infections. (Said that the mucus draining down my throat was causing the nausea, etc.) That was years ago, and it did give me relief for a while, but by the time the disease came roaring back, a lot of damage had been done. I had injections of Decadron, and I feel that that contributed to my high blood pressure now. A lot of the side effects of steroids don't show up for years.

ianm Apprentice
ianm
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Nothing makes your day like a good dump. :lol: It is rather disturbing that the doctor was quick to put a child on heavy duty drugs and not consider a dietary change first.

junieb Rookie
junieb
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LOL!!!! I had the same feeling when dd just last month, at 7y, had the same thing!! I couldn't believe there was just 1 big poop in the toilet. I didn't realize how gross it always was until I saw this 1st normal one.....36 hours after eating her last bite of gluten. And, the horrible foul smell is no longer there! Her belly is noticably less distended now and the nightly stomachaches are almost gone. She is not as tired as she was and people who don't really know her situation have recently commented that she looks like she has grown during the past month. This is all so wild. Congrats!

mommida Enthusiast
mommida
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I am so happy for you guys! Get ready to go shopping for the coming growth spurt!

Laura

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