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Hi all,

A friend of mine was recently telling me about how she had taken a food sensitivity test to see how a bunch of different foods affected her RA. I was just wondering if anybody has ever actually taken a test like this to see how food affects the pouch and if you have taken the test, would you recommend it? Were there any results that surprised you and seemed to differ from results you noticed through trial and error?
Thanks for the input!
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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.

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