How long do your flare ups last?

If I do something to get my system out of whack, I may be okay as early as the day after or it may take weeks to slowly get better. Eating something I shouldn't usually messes me up a day or two. Getting sick with a cold and having to take medicine--especially antiobitics--may mess me up for weeks. A lot of times, when I'm having a long period of difficulty like that, I'm not messed up every single day, but half or a majority of my days. And I may not even be real bad off, but I'm certainly not at my normal levals of functionality.

If you have diarrhea fairly frequently (and possibly even if you don't), you may have problems with a vitamin deficiancy. You can try taking a basic multi-vitamin and see if this helps or you can go to the doctor and get a blood workup. Just be careful of the multi-vitamins that contain more than 100% of the daily recommended dose of certain vitamins in them. My mother, a nurse, says that what your body doesn't need it will just flush out anyways, and a doctor's nurse told me that flushing out a lot of excess vitamins is just that much harder on the kidneys. So, no need to pee money down the toilet and give your kidneys grief at the same time; 100% of your recommended daily allowance is just plenty.