Hi Sunshine,

I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I believe the medication you are referring to is Bentyl, or Dicycolime (the generic name) and it can help with abdominal pain and cramps. Levsin is another option you might want to talk to your doctor about.

Regarding what you can eat, whenever I'm in a major ulcerative colitis flare-up I resort to a low-residue, or what I call a *white and light* diet. These are foods that tend to be easy to digest and to so they give your gut a break and a chance to heal. The following foods are what I tend to live on when in a flare-up situation:

- scrambled eggs

- white toast (a small amount of butter only, no jelly or jam)

- white rice (not brown, it's too hard to digest)

- yogurt - as natural as you can get without tons of sugar or high fructose corn syrup. Not Yoplait, etc.

- bananas (not too green or too ripe)

- applesauce (but not apples. The sugars are broken down in applesauce and easy to digest).

- baked chicken breast

- baked white fish

- homemade chicken soup - strain all veggies out before eating.

I have lived on these 9 foods for months at a time while a flare got under control. Sometimes the best tasting meal for me when sick is white rice with a drizzle of olive oil and salt and a baked chicken breast. It would sound terribly boring and bland when I'm feeling well, but when a UC flare hits, this bland diet is the best thing for me.

Hope this helps,

Elizabeth