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Posted 10/2/2011 2:29 AM (GMT 0)
just wondering if anyone has tried this with any success ?

I am tapering off budesonide and recovering from a very nasty tummy bug I picked up at work so sore and bloated although bowel motions not too bad now.

I had a good years remission on budesonide but my new specialist wants me off of it now for a number of reasons. He is keen to start me on mexthexotrate but I am not as I want to keep working and don't have time to deal with side effects or more days off this side of Christmas so would like to settle myself down at least a little bit before my next appointment.

so I have been adding a number of supplements to my FODMAP diet and wondered if it was worth adding serrapeptase.

http://www.serrapeptase.info

particularly intersting as NSAIDS I take for cervical pain have been playing my stomach up something awful.

Posted 10/2/2011 9:11 AM (GMT 0)
I don't know anything about it, Leslie, but here's a bump.

bump.
Posted 10/2/2011 10:23 AM (GMT 0)
I think it looks like snake oil, to be honest.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratiopeptidase

Not only that, but if you actually followed the author's IBD plan to the letter, including the 'basic healthcare plan', you'd be taking about 10 extra, expensive-sounding, supplements on top of the serrapetase, not to mention following an expensive diet. Personally I think plans like that are just fleecing the not-so-well well-off =/
Posted 10/2/2011 2:57 PM (GMT 0)
I got some for ds to try, pretty expensive as far as supplements go. We only gave it a couple of months trial though(some things do need a bit longer than that) If I recall it is for inflammation. Ds started it immediately after a blood test(has every three months) and we went with it until the next blood test. The numbers were no different and in himself he felt no diiferent so we gave up on that one.
That isn't to say that it will not work. There are too many variables to say and obviously what works/doesn't work for one may/may not work for another.

He took it in tablet form and I believe that it either comes from or is synthetically made up to replicate something that the silk worm produces.
Posted 10/2/2011 8:41 PM (GMT 0)
Hello!

Have also heard and read something snake like about this. But short term using it probably would not harm. I do not know.

Personally would rather trust stoned, aproved medicines and other stoned natural like medicines. And new drugs that showed to be promised and will, hopefuly arrive soon (Prochymal, onemolecule drugs, IL blockers, maybe steam cell transplant, ...)

But I think something good is needed and fast. Some better drug in near future.

Best!

YP9
Posted 10/3/2011 7:53 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the bump Ivy :)

NCOT - Goodness even Wiki thinks it is snakeoil <grin> what was I thinking!!!!!!!!!

Vixen - Very interesting to have tried it in tandem with blood tests for inflammation - your ds's results seems to supports the snakeoil theory :)

YP9 - Thanks for posting. I think we are all in agreement this looks unproven at best and snakey at worst<grin>

Thanks guys - sometimes I need reminding that if something looks too good to be true it usually is <LOL> guess I won't be ordering this anytime soon.

hugs to you all
Lesley in NZ
Posted 10/3/2011 9:36 AM (GMT 0)
@vixen - interesting to hear an anecdote directly from the horse's mouth!

@Kiwi - You're welcome :p ... I do tend to be naturally suspicious of most supplements, particularly ones which promise the earth. Only really recently, me and my mum were inside a health food shop, where my mum was queueing up to buy something. After we left, she asked me if I'd noticed how much the old man in front of her had spent; I said 'no' and she said '£148'. Apparently all on supplements and pills. I saw the old man for myself and the poor fellow looked in a bad way: as though he was far along the path of a wasting illness. I just remember feeling so sorry for him at that point - and also thinking those £148 worth of pills were not doing him much good. Of course, for all I know, they could be the only thing left keeping him alive, but... :-/

Anyway, not sure what my point is... I just remember feeling a mixture of pity for the old man and anger at those who give people false hopes with highly expensive supplements, that's all.
Posted 10/3/2011 2:06 PM (GMT 0)
lol neigh :)

I have a mil that spends more on supplements than on food!!

I do believe that sometimes supplements can help someone with symptoms(not cure though) and over the years there have been sucessful supplements taken off the shelves in Health Food shops and moved along to the pharmaceutical Industry!

Somethings, I believe are worth a try although tbh I am like a lot of people and want to see near instant results, when usually what has been going wrong in the body has been going on for a long time and we can't expect an instant fix.

The herbal tablets that ds has been on for acne have been fab but other things like the serrapeptase have been disappointing.

LOL you should hear the conversation between ds, myself and GP-he rubbishes anything that comes from a herbal shop-even pro-biotics!!

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