Coming Events

We have a lot happening over the next month or so.

 

Wednesday 2/5 : Support Group Meeting from 7pm at the Hughes Community Centre (Room 2) – Discussion topic to be “medications and side-effects” but other topics can be raised during the evening. Please RSVP by Sunday evening.

Wednesday 16/5 : IBD Forum at Canberra Hospital from 7pm to 9pm. More details should be available at the support group meeting.

Saturday 19/5 : World IBD Day

Monday 21/5 : Cocktail Party at Parliament House (free). If you are interested in attending then you must let me know before Friday.

Wednesday 6/6 : Support Group Meeting with a special workshop on Resilience by a psychologist. Thanks to Jess Paterson for organising this.

 

I look forward to seeing you at some of these events.

Stephen Hope

CCA Canberra Support Group Facilitator

April 2012 Meeting

10 attended the April meeting including Dave Wheeler who is intending to get a support group up and running on the north side soon.
We had some interesting discussion about food and diiet and found that experiences were quite varied. Conversation also moved on to other areas as it often does.
I mentioned at the end of the evening that I intend to send out a survey out to support group members. I can then connect people that have questions or concerns with others that are in a similar situation or have been through issues previously.

From our diet and nutrition discussion we listed the following:

Good Foods

Vitagreen vitamin supplements
Mashed potato
Yakult
Cheeseburgers!
A2 milk
Oat muesli
Pawpaw
Turmeric
Smoothies
Blueberries
Guardian cereal

Bad Foods

MSG
Fruits - melons, apples
Cabbage and cauliflower
Wheat
Wasabi
Alcohol
Pasta
Dairy
Grain bread

Other Useful Suggestions

Put your meat through a blender
Keep food and health diaries to find out what is good and bad
Investigate the FODMAPs diet.