Need help through this flare

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Hi guys - rounding the curve at 4.5 months on SCD - no 3 month flare,

but today is not so good. Last week (at my place of work no less

which is a restaurant), I ordered Salmon and told them they could put

butter on it. There was brown sugar in the butter and I did not

realize till I had eat 1/2. Stool started to soften. I then bought

monterey jack cheese in brick form and my system did not like that -

diarrhea off and on now since this incident for five days...I also

started to get stomach pains, especially when I eat. I went out for

a holiday dinner and had red meat and well cooked veggies. That night

I had foul smelling diarrhea and increased urgency and more frequency.

Yesterday there a trace of mucus in one of the six BMs and the stool

fluctuated between diarrhea and soft stool. Today there is blood -

while not a ton, it is there and still with the stomach pains. I am

not on any meds. I take the Freeda multivitamins and B complex and a

pro biotic. It is my intention to avoid meds at this time and drop

down to stage 1 foods again. I feel like I have severe anxiety around

anything related to a flare. I really have to watch the emotional joy

ride I can go off on regarding the " what if things get really bad and

I am in the hospital... " scenarios. I am looking for encouragement

and support during this period of uncertainty as I attempt to ride

this out. Thanks for your help.

aiazeen

4.5 months SCD

UC 6yrs