Jini Patel Thompson's elemental diet

I haven't heard particularly good things about the Jini Patel Thomspon diet on this site. Theoretically it could work, but it's too close to an overpriced scam for my liking. Before trying it, see if you can get results with a cheaper diet first. Perhaps the SCD (which is a form of elemental diet, despite having solid foods - it appears to work along similar principles to one at any rate) or even just a liquid diet consisting of Ensure, etc. People bang on about the ingredients of Ensure, but in reality it doesn't seem to make much difference to the results - studies have shown that non-elemental liquid diets are almost as effective as elemental ones for Crohn's disease.

I did try a liquid elemental diet (not the JPT one) when I still had a colon. It didn't work.

Are you on any medication? In all honesty, I think that's your best hope for getting into remission.

Thanks NiceCupofTea and Earthshine, for the info.
I'm on meds at the moment: Ciprofloxacin and Metronidazole. Also Entocord enemas 3x per week. Trying to go into remission. Then I want to start on VSL3. Was hoping to do the diet after that. But as you say, it's VERY expensive - much more so for me with our weak currency. I tried the scd diet for 3 weeks but lost 3kg in that time and was hungry all the time. Maybe I didn't do it right. I got so weak the doc said to go off it. Also, I really don't want to be cooking and baking all the time. And it seems you have to stay on it for a year or more.
I'll do some reasearch on the Nutreval test. Have any of you had good results from using VSL3?

I really don't think much of the SCD diet but that's another story. I doubt you did anything wrong: the diet is just so restrictive, it's virtually impossible not to lose weight on it if you are flaring.

Enemas 3x a week don't sound enough. Try upping the Entocort enemas to 1 a day and increasing the dose if you are not already at the max dose. I'd also consider starting a maintenance med like 6MP, azathioprine or even a biologic. Antibiotics don't have a terribly good track record in treating Crohn's; nor do probiotics. If money was no issue, I'd say try the VSL3 on the grounds it can't do any harm and may do a bit of good. But it is an issue for you (as it is for me), so I'm not sure if VSL3 is worth the money.

I'm sorry, I don't have any great ideas. I'm in a very similar boat to you and just living with the symptoms at the moment. I've got no motivation to go down the diet route, so my next step will probably be to try to get 6MP or azathioprine prescribed.