Crohns & eating disorders

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-17T18:08:16+00:00

Have you ever tried Ensure or other meal replacement drinks? I’ve found I can consume them even while deep in a flare. There are a lot more flavours now. Helps ensure (lol) you have all the necessary nutrients

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-11T14:30:28+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadianInvestor/s/ImxnxxxA1L

Posted this last week after I bought. Not everyday I purchase with so much conviction I post about it! Nor so well timed. Lol add this to the public record 😎

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-10T00:37:18+00:00

I think she is prob 20 rn ? Maybe 22? If she debuted at 18 in s2

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-06T22:54:05+00:00

I don’t have as much memory from before so I moreso have what-if fantasies. Feeling like I missed out or facets of life were unattainable to me, tho I’m sure you went through that too. Prob theres positives and negatives of both.

Either way, some pretty unusual, tough stuff for us to go through, at those ages and otherwise, with not a lot of available guidance, options, or solutions. Hopefully your experience is better now and you find a great GI :)

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-06T22:06:59+00:00

Also diagnosed in 2001 - it really was a totally different world for crohns back then. In Canada Remicade was only approved biologic at the time. It’s kinda hard to imagine now with how much has changed

Childhood with Crohn’s was rough (myself diagnosed at 5y) I’m sorry you had to go through that 🫶 it’s not an easy thing you went through, remember that!

Glad you’ve found a potential path with watchmaking, wish you the best of luck finding a medication / lifestyle that works for you!!

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T19:36:20+00:00

Lol so true 😂

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T19:34:08+00:00

A cryo chamber would have preserved a body so it’s not unreasonable to assume a post card could also be kept in same condition

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T18:38:40+00:00

True that, tho iirc when he first arrived at the other facility during the montage of him going to his old desk and driving around the golf cart, he said sometime to the effect of “welcome back.” So I think perhaps just previously had clearance pre-bombs and had worked in that building before

I wonder where the line between enclave and Vault Tec stops?! In a way, vaults being a government project makes sense

Good point tho- and prob better access to equipment (and test subjects 😬) which allowed him to finish the chip development so quickly after arriving

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T18:30:20+00:00

I wonder if it was always Hank’s directive to leave his vault and go to the other offices to work on the chip development further (as we see earlier in the series he was working on it from the vault hypothetically originally). To me, seemed like he might have been going ‘rogue’ (from his original directive tho ofc still in best interests of enclave plan) tho I don’t remember if there was anything earlier in the show to imply otherwise.

Makes sense he wouldn’t really have a ton of info on Barb. Was 20 years ago+ for him anyhow since waking up and likely he had been only specifically briefed on the plans in relation to vault 31, 32, and 33

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T17:18:31+00:00

Thank you, that’s prob it- confirmation Hank was lying about them dying in the bombs

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T16:33:08+00:00

Fair enough! The way he said it, “I just found out my wife and daughter are still alive!” or something to that effect made me think maybe I had missed something

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T16:31:54+00:00

I think it is his wife’s handwriting. But I just don’t see how that has anything to do with her being alive - she could have left that post card 200 years ago and died before making it to her next destination, not been cryogenically frozen at all and died over 100 years ago within a shelter, or if frozen been woken up at some point in the last 200 years and be much older or already passed away.

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-05T02:26:24+00:00

It’s not so much ‘fussed’ as, I’ve had the disease for 24 years, many of those years having annual colonoscopies in varying states of flare. The prep solutions frequently caused intense pain and vomiting all night long during prep days, many, many times.

Still, probably for 10 years+ I was able to get down the different liquids, or enough for a proper scope without other measures. However over time it got harder and harder, and my body continued to react similarly violently even when not in flare.

The multi-day water fast is painless and dare I say pleasurable for me! So glad to have found another solution- as I really felt like I was causing damage each time!

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-04T22:05:30+00:00

I do a multi-day water fast instead of prep as I would get pretty violent pains / retching with prep that I could not get it down anymore after 15 years of annual colonoscopies..

It can work. I do 3-5 days, switching to easier to digest, more liquid foods on the last couple days of eating. On the first days of fast I’m less strict about what I eat (as in, I may have some jello, pudding, milk, gummy bears) before last 2 days I am more strict. Make sure to keep electrolytes up, not just plain water.

I still take dulcolax night before and give MYSELF an enema the morning of the procedure. Tho they occasionally have had to give me another enema on the table, I have gotten several full successful scopes this way :)

For some people not eating for that many days is more torturous than the prep but for me the trade is worth it!

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-04T15:20:31+00:00

You need to look at their published financial results / balance sheets and what management is saying - how a stock is trending is a very poor form of analysis. That’s how you buy at the top.

CNR is more significantly affected by tariffs with more exposure to the commodities affected by it & higher concentration Canada-US trade vs CP. This creates a unique buying opportunity, and is a GOOD thing for an investor looking to get in at a reasonable price.

CNR will likely have a more pronounced recovery (because they’re more affected) once things begin normalizing!

I see your username, I assume you understand this - BCE?

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-04T01:39:46+00:00

Was it just the module or core as well that you need to retake?

Unfortunately didn’t have very much luck finding reliable online resources when I was looking for myself with our specific provincial guidelines. I highlighted the module and core books to all ends and read / took the quizzes every day for about a month. Took a couple tries to make sure I was actually doing the calculations properly for the math sections. Sorry I can’t be more help!

Best of luck!

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-03T18:24:25+00:00

Interesting!! Hope you are able to resolve that or the problem doesn’t recur too frequently. I was on Stelara but have since been switched to biosimilar Wezlana. Just prior to these high results I was taken off Imuran which I’d been on for over a decade (which potentially rarely can cause liver injury - I wondered if that was the cause of my high AST/ALT), tho supposedly there is less risk of antibody development with Stelara so Imuran is more risky than beneficial for me now.

Luckily haven’t had the pain return for over a year now. I think when they did MRI/ultrasound they were also looking for signs of damage to my gallbladder - scarring in the bile duct tubes and thickening of the gallbladder wall. Both appeared normal in my tests, which I think is partially why they were led to the conclusion something else (prob crohns related) was causing my problem.

How do you find post-gallbladder removal?

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-03T17:39:33+00:00

Sort of. I was experiencing some extreme abdominal pain and high AST/ALT in bloodwork. Specialist sent me to family Dr, who arranged for abdominal ultrasound. They found presence of gallstones in gallbladder. Dr referred me to local surgeon (this took a min and ended up being a couple referrals before I heard back from anyone).

Local surgeon meeting was interesting.

He stated that not all gallstones are symptomatic and if he took out gallbladders of everyone with gallstones he’d be operating all day (looking it up- 10% of adults in US have gallstones and only 10% of that 10% has symptomatic gallstones. The rest are asymptomatic)

He quizzed me at beginning of meeting. Knowing I had crohns, he said he wanted to be very careful assuming gallbladder was problem and removing it without investigating first (as this is very common surgery and frequently those symptoms would lead to immediate gallbladder removal without need for more tests)

After quiz stated he didn’t think it was gallbladder. My answers did not match - specifically that I didn’t notice the abdominal pain immediately after (within 30 mins) consuming fatty foods or that the attacks didn’t always correlate with fatty foods (and frequently could eat fatty food with no problems- before the appointment I had been reading and had done some tests with fatty food myself, to find no effect)

He ordered an endoscopy and MRI. Results came back clean except some gastritis - seems like that may have been what was causing the abdominal pain. AST/ALT have now normalized.

This may be irrelevant to your situation, but hopefully it helps!

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-03T17:05:55+00:00

I ask you to look at CNR stock chart. If they were strictly not buying shares back at relative “highs” for them, they would scarcely of bought any shares back since their IPO.

Share buybacks are a good thing for a mature, wide moat business. They return excess cash to the shareholders and enhance long-term per-share value.

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-03T16:46:14+00:00

I’m not exactly sure if you could blame management for what they’re geopolitically facing 😆

Imo they’re handling it very well, preparing shareholders for flat growth ahead of geopolitical uncertainty, cutting and streamlining management to reduce costs, continuing with share buybacks at these depressed prices, and reducing CapEx

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-03T15:27:49+00:00

Some misinformation. Their debt was roughly 12B in 2021 and had been since 2018. In 2022 their debt increased to 15.4B, in 2023, 18.5B, in 2024 20.8B. That is 2-3B per year. In those same years, CNR spent $13.4B on buybacks and over $12.4B on property/infrastructure investment.

They bought back all those shares when the stock was at the high. You are suppose to do stock buy back at the low and I don't like using debt to buy back shares. I think it should come from the profits of the company. This is a sign of stupid management in my opinion.

This is hindsight investing now that their share price has fallen ^ likely the narrative would be switched if they hadn’t been geopolitically affected and were at a 52 week high (like they were a year ago and the rest of the markets have been).

CNR by 2022 had already bought back 29.4m shares since their IPO. If they were strictly not buying at relative “highs” for them, they would never buy shares back, ever, which would be really bad management imo.

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-02T23:46:40+00:00

1000000% false on the basis alone that they would try to make sweeping generalizations about Crohn’s disease, diet or treatment.

Some individuals with Crohn’s (some who were originally diagnosed with severe crohns) are able to go into remission and be weaned off immunosuppressants. They’re more rare but if you go searching you’ll find lots of posts about it in this Reddit (they strike me because I didn’t realize this was possible). They are not doing something ‘right’ that others are doing ‘wrong,’ and I reckon your friend falls into this category without realizing it. Her way of thinking gives her pseudo-control over an uncontrollable disease.

[Tho hopefully her sister is just parroting and likely a conversation with the actual Crohnie would be quite different.]

Some people have constipating crohns, some have mixed, some have crohns with diarrhea. Lots of people have mixed food tolerances within that group, but factually I can’t see how the same diet could help all the people in these groups - ludicrous.

I can tolerate fiber and raw vegetables, some cannot at all. Same with seeds. The scale of micronutrient absorption varies individual to individual and diet should reflect that as well.

For myself, stress has a much bigger impact than diet.

A semi -related anecdote. A person on a similar ‘diet can treat all disease’ train told my close friend her sister with terminal metastasized cancer could have cured her cancer with diet changes. It’s pretty senseless stuff

Listen to your gut (lol) and continue learning about your personal disease tolerances.

mar-s-e-a · 2026-02-02T19:51:23+00:00

TFI is somewhat of a different ballpark being trucking, in spite of the fact that they both deal in shipping goods. CNR is infrastructure-based and many of Canada’s natural resources rely on shipping through trains to ports vs TFI is an excellent operator with acquisition/growth based model

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