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Posted 10/22/2015 5:48 PM (GMT 0)
I didn't say it was unheard of as you said. I said it was rare which you disagreed with and apparently continue to do so despite the

Furthermore the severity of active Crohn's disease varies significantly so the argument that continuous surgery absent remissions is a sophistry.

That I would go into remission contemporaneously with ingesting a couple boxes of cookies and remain symptom free for decades defies credulity, including my own. Especially my own. That other people expressed similar experiences online was astounding to me. I can't imagine what in the world could possibly be in a simple cookie that would dramatically alter my condition on a permanent (so far) basis.

I would put it up there with faith healing and cranio-sacral therapy in terms of plausibility.
Posted 10/22/2015 6:02 PM (GMT 0)
I give up. This guy clearly wants to believe that 2 packets of coconut macaroons put him in remission for 20 years against all logic/evidence to the contrary. There's no arguing with somebody who already has their mind made up.
Posted 10/23/2015 1:15 AM (GMT 0)
Wesearch60,

I'm replying mainly because I really don't like to see threads like this get to the point of being offensive to others, and even belligerent.

I'm going to assume that your initial post was honorable. Perhaps you really do believe implicitly that eating these cookies has provided you with a cure.

You have to understand that IBD sufferers here have been through a tremendous amount of anguish. They've had one unsuccessful treatment after another, many surgeries for some, experienced difficulities with family, work, school and all sorts of other offshoot problems that come with trying to cope with living with an affliction like Crohn's.

When someone comes on here and says they were cured by a couple of cookies, you can imagine how that must sound. Even though your intent might be honorable, it's almost insulting.

The other thing is, we all come here for support. To start firing back at everyone so negatively just ruins the spirit of what this forum is intended for.

I'm sure a moderator will lock this thread soon. In the meantime. my suggestion is, let's all get back to being civil and supportive.
Posted 10/23/2015 1:29 PM (GMT 0)
First, I am not the one who initiated this thread about Crohn's disease and Macaroon cookies. Second I never said I believed these cookies "cured" anything; I have been emphatic about that throughout. Third, I simply stated my coincidental experience. Fourth I was not the one who started the ad hominem attacks. Fifth, I had many if not all the similar experiences of Crohns disease including life critical bowel obstructions. Sixth, if someone comes to a forum on this subject and feels insulted, they have other profound issues that are irrelevant to Crohn's, they are looking to be "offended".

When someone openly questions both my education (you must be in high school) and my career (skepticism that I worked at NASA), THEY and only they are the ones responsible for any perceived incivil discourse.

I will reiterate yet again, I ate a couple packages of those cookies specifically mentioned in this forum. For reasons I cannot even begin to fathom I never had another symptom for twenty years and counting.

If my relating my experience truthfully, openly and candidly offends anyone it is their problem and their problem alone. THEY own their negative emotions. I remind you again, that this forum was about Archway cookies and Crohn's disease. If a reader finds the stories incredible, I share in that incredulity. If they are resentful and want to feel somehow relevant by gratuitously launching personal attacks against the integrity of others, they should move along.
Posted 10/23/2015 1:57 PM (GMT 0)
Closing down the forum, 73monte, because some soul feels resentful about what he reads on a forum that clearly states the subject of the topic is analogous to demands that a forum on the Mormon religion should be shut down because some soul is offended that some other individual wears "holy underwear" and believes that Eden is outside Jefferson Missouri. It is basically Political Correctness gone amok.

I came across this forum. I shared my experience. I am subjected to ad hominem attacks. I push back and you mischaracterize completely my message. Really???
Posted 10/23/2015 4:17 PM (GMT 0)
I'm locking this thread, going no where.
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