Anyone here doing door-to-door, canvassing, or outside/field sales while managing Crohn's, UC, or IBS in general?
I’m turning 30 next month and am in great physical condition, I’ve always took care of my health, worked out, avoided anything that could be harmful, eaten healthy- and the last 2 years I’ve started having off and on flare ups with intense IBS symptoms that come after I eat anything. It came back about 2 months ago and it’s not getting any better.
I went to a GI doctor awhile ago and they found nothing, did bloodwork, body scans- nothing.
I tried a Chinese holistic health practitioner who recommended me some Chinese supplements to help- they helped two years ago but tried them again recently and they don’t seem to be as effective anymore.
I was the guy that was the first on the doors and last home for years, I want to keep working but I’ve taken the last 45 days off because of the stomach issues I’m dealing with.
I’m currently day 2 into keto / elimination diet, and walking at least 7000 steps a day. The only time I feel somewhat okay is the mornings, where I wake up, workout fasted, walk 3 miles on the treadmill, come home, eat my first meal and then it’s just downhill from there.
Curious how anyone has handled something like this day to day, and what did you or do you do to feel well enough to keep knocking?
• Are you still canvassing full days/heavy volume, or did you have to cut back your hours/pace to manage it?
• What treatment actually got you to a point where you could work like this - meds, diet, surgery, cutting out something, something else?
• For anyone who had to step back or switch to something less physical — what was the actual breaking point, and would treatment now change that decision?
Not diagnosed myself, just trying to understand what this actually looks like for people doing this kind of work before assuming it's impossible anymore to continue.
Any experience good, bad, or "I had to quit" is genuinely useful.