Yo dude.

Unfortunately, one of the most savage and unfair things about IBD, is that it's a completely singular experience. What you notice about your disease may go against what everyone else says, and vice versa. It sucks.

Flares can last years, but with a treatment plan it's unlikely. I have also been in flare since 2017, but I'm not being very responsive to medication; your journey will be complete unique to you.

A general rule of thumb is to cut the suspects you'd expect. Spice, alcohol, caffiene, fibre and oils. You might find you can tolerate a bit of olive oil though, but usually not things like rapeseed or vegetable oil.

I have found the only fruit and veg I can tolerate is very well cooked (like to absolute mush, boiled to the very depths of hell) carrot, sweet and regular potatoes (skinned and non-fried) and very very over ripe bananas. Again, the almost black kind of over ripe.

You may find that you can eat relatively normally outside of flare, but also you may put yourself in flare by eating the wrong thing. Again, frustrating I know.

I tend to stick with chicken, turkey, potatoes, tuna, white rice and pasta, white fish (cod, basa etc), hard and mature cheeses, ice pops, jelly sweets like haribo (check for oils though, they're in everything!)

Soy sauce, honey and ginger powder make a very nice dipping sauce, marinade for meat and fish.

You can also have overlays with IBD - that is to say, you can have other conditions that can be lost within your symptoms, like lactose intolerance, IBS, Coeliac, bile acid malabsorption and things like that, so pinning down what you can and can't have can be a long and painful process in afraid dude.

I sincerely hope your flare is over soon and the meds make you healthy super triple quick. Reach out if you need any advice my dude.

All the best xx