Colitis Symptom free for over 1 year and counting.

It may not work for everyone but I have friends who have tried it and they have had awesome results:

SCD Diet + take the following daily - 4 Wild Salmon & Fish Oil capsules 1000mgs, 4 Acidophilus with bifidus & FOS(Non-Dairy), take a natural source multi-vitamin from a trusted manufacturer, 4 Calcium Magnesium with Zinc and drink plenty of Green Tea or White Tea as they both have excellent anti-inflammatory properties. The above has helped me greatly. Hope it helps you. 

There is alot of people charging for help with colitis but I think sites like this site are great as we should all work together to rid everyone of this horrible condition.

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Post Edited By Moderator (Red_34) : 6/11/2008 4:54:04 AM (GMT-6)

Hi, the location was the lower bowel just before the rectum and a ways up. I was on medication (Asacol MSM pills & also enema's) but the pills started to kill my stomach and had no effect on the UC and taking the enema's was just too time consuming and of course annoying :) I finally had enough of the doctor being negative and I started doing research into natural anti-inflammatories and discovered the one's I listed had great properties as well I thought it would be great to restore and enhance the positive flora in the intestines to rid the bad microbes and all has been great since let alone I don't have a beer belly anymore with following the diet I'm on plus I'm in terrific shape.

Thanks for the reply:)   

Yes, please tell us if you stick to the SCD diet strictly. I would love to hear more about your success. Are you completely off meds now?

The Specific Carbohydrate Diet

http://www.scdiet.org

what do you call symptom free? I was told I was in remission but I still have to make trips to the facilities no less than 5-10 times in a day. I can see where they say that's better because when I was flaring I was literally house bound. 5-10 still keeps me close to home and with an 18 month old it gets hard to chase him down then have to suddenly stop & run because of sudden urges.

I was diagnosed in 1999 and have been jockeyed around more than I can even remember at this point, I have been medication free for the last year (at my demand) but I still suffer urges and frequency to a point.


Am I expecting too much thinking I could one day be pain free and have a routine schedule for my body?

I remember when I first became sick with this and my wife and I had our second child at around the same time. I worked during the day and when at home in the night I would

let my wife get sleep and if our son would get up, which he did as he would spit up continuosly then I would get up with him to feed and change him. I remember sitting there feeding him and getting the urge to go to the bathroom, I thought it was diarrhea and just kept going that night and then it continued to the point I had to stay there and the poor little guy was on my lap as I was sick and bleeding. I thought maybe I had a bug. Then it started at work as I'd be sitting down and get an urge and I couldn't get to the bathroom fast enough and I'd end up going in my pants before reaching the toilet, you can imagine the embarrasment. It got to the point I couldn't pass gas as I was terrified of embarrasment and the blood and loose stool and not being able to get off the toilet. I once had a fissure tear and thought it was that again so proceeded to get suppositories for hemmoroids and trying to use those things killed me and put me in pain and had my wife finding me trembling on the floor more than once. Finally I had enough and past the denial and went to see my doctor to get a referral to see a gastro specialist. I went for my first segmoid scope and it killed me as the pain was unbearable and when I was put in recovery they came and told me it was colitis and gave me Asacol 500mg pills plus a prescription for salofalk enema's. The pills killed my stomach and did nothing for it and the doctor said that is a side effect and all pills do the same and the enema's just interfered with my family time and where very uncomfortable to administer. I no longer for over a year and counting take any medications and I have no more urges to go to the bathroom, no blood, no cramping, no pain, no high fibre diets(they make UC worse in the first place), and I have 1 bowel movement a day and it is healthy with no mucus and agin no blood and I'm happy to say I can pass gas again which my wife although she is very happy for me hates that part :)

Just imagine having your freedom back, not having to wonder if a bathroom is next to where you are or if you'll make it there, gaining healthy weight and muscle tone, having energy, no mood swings(my wife loves that one). I first hand know how hard this diet is as I love to eat and I'm Canadian so our foods are very greasy and are easy to access which I'm sure the rest of you love too but if you give it a shot you'll feel better, I know it as I have done it and continue to and the food is really good with access to all ingredients just at your supermarket or health store. If you need support feel free to email me when your craving those chips, milk, beer or whatever else it may be or just remind yourself of the pain you used to be in and do you really want to go back to that? Surely the answer is no.   

I hear ya and I agree everyone is different.

I'll get right on that and I'll either post it here in this blog or will make a new post for it. The book is also at any library too.

 

LOL......you're so right. My apologies to everyone on that comment and not only that there is usually only one bathroom too.....yikes.

Hi,

Are you talking about the posts I've previously posted or the information coming about foods allowed/not allowed etc?

I was planning on putting a link or something actually, my apologies.

I'd be interested in that post or email too. . . .I have a hard time with weird things like I can eat spinach raw for days but any other greens tear me to shreds. It gets very frustrating to the point I'm in tears.

My worst time was a flare I had when my new born son was nursing. . . .I tried to wait until he was done but I was in such pain I was breaking out in a sweat. I had to break him off, lay him down and run. . . listening to him cry the whole time I was in there. I've never had my heart broken so badly and don't ever want to go through that again.

That's actually what prompted me to stop the meds I was taking to see how I was because I certainly wasn't under control on them. I actually got better without them and took my argument back to the GI. They weren't happy about the fact that I had tried that on my own but I was dead set I wasn't taking any of that again unless my situation warranted it. Since then I haven't had any major unexplainable flares and have been testing different foods on my own to see how I react. Having a guide would be SOOO much nicer.