vitamin e enemas

has anyone had more mucus a couple hours after trying these? i'm using 8 400mg caps and a couple hours later i'll poop a bunch of mucus with a little blood. the vitamin e stuff sticks to everything too, i wonder if that's good for the colon?

i keep it in for a couple of hours but maybe you're right about trying them out in the middle of a flare. i'm going to hold off and see if alternating rowasa and cortifoam enemas nightly will help. thanks for the input!

Vitamin E should not irritate the colon in the middle of or any part of a flare.

I am giving the Vit E enemas a shot, but I have some questions regarding the procedure of making the enema. I tried to post this for Sheldon on CureZone, but I am having troubles logging in.

1. After you suck up the vit E floating on the water, do you suck up the 1.5 tablespoons of water when creating the enema?
2. How do you ensure that the vit E is transferred from the ear syringe to the colon? The first night I tried the enema I sucked up water with the vit E and I don't think much vit E went in to my colon because there was a substantial amount of vit E drained out of the ear syringe by the morning.
3. Can vit E go bad? Do you rinse all the vitamin E out of the ear syringe?

Thanks for the response Sheldon.

I gave curezone another shot and it lets me login, but when I try to post it wants my password again and at then denies it at that point. I got it to email my password and it is correct. I should ask the admin on that site for help.

I went to buy more vit E today and I found a version in a bottle, which would make things much easier.

The product is called, Vitamin E Liquid.

This is the description:

Pure natural clear vitamin E in the form of d-alpha Tocopheryl acetate derived and isolated from 100% natural sources free from allergens.
An antioxidant for the maintenance of good health. helps to protect against free radicals, lipid oxidation, environmental pollutants topically to promote healing of burns, cuts or scrapes
For adult use only.

The form of vitamin E seems to be a combination of what is acceptable and what to avoid.

Can you please tell me if it is acceptable?

Here is a link to the product, but I am not sure if I am allowed to post links to product so it might disappear. You will have to scroll 3/4 of the way down the page.

http://www.trophic.net/products/vitamins.html

I didn't actually buy the d-alpha Tocopheryl acetate vitamin E I asked about above. It is liquid so it would be easier, but I will avoid it if it is not right.

I have read Issue 64 many time, I even have it printed down to one page and I brought that with me to the drug store. I bought the right vitamin E with the mixed tocoperols. It is a different brand than the first Vitamin E I was using, it is much easier to deal with and I will explain the difference because it may help people who try this.

The first type of Vitamin E I got was from a Naturopath and it was just a coincidence that I had it, so I thought I'd use it for the enemas. It comes in 1000mg capsules and is the consistency of tree sap. It is extremely sticky and thick and is quite dark in colour. By the time I got it squeezed out of the capsules my fingers ached. The next problem was sucking it up in to the nose syringe. I figured out that if I slightly heated the distilled water the vitamin E would become more viscous and I could suck it up. When I gave myself the enema the water went in first and then a bit of the vitamin E, but most of it stuck inside the ear syringe and would ooze out by the morning. Even though this vitamin was the right type it really is not ideal for enemas. In fact I think some people that try the enemas get this type and give up. Luckily I didn't because this new brand of vitamin E comes in the 400UI capsules and it is no where near as thick or sticky. It is much closer to olive oil or something like that and it is light coloured. I am a very relieved that I found this type of vitamin E.

I will keep you posted on my progress. Even though I am at day 6 I really feel like I am back at day 1 because I don't know if that other type of vitamin E really made it through much of my colon.

Hopefully, my experience with the vitamin E can help somebody. I will try to shoot a video of me making the enema and put it on youtube. Then maybe we could get a link to it on curezone.

I read the curezone message about logging in and it seems that my problem is most likely because I have firefox installed. I don't want to uninstall it, but I have another computer to try.

Thanks again for all your efforts.

weirdbeard -- did you give up on the sunflower/spinach diet?

Hey Weirdbear, sorry you are still flaring.  I am sort of the same in that I cna't lower pred without reflaring, and even with Remicade I still have lots of pain (though it has at least mercifully formed my stools well and stopped any bleeding.)  I saw the link posted for the Canadian brand of vit E that is not so thick and gooey i..e would mix better into water for an enema, but can someone post a link to a source of 'thinner' vit E in the U.S.? (Or PM me if that is not permitted by forum rules, but I am guessing in this case it is permissible.) Thanks...

P.S. I am doing spinach and sunflower seeds right now too.  I am tolerating spinach very well, no problems.  I canot risk taking seeds but I have  tried pure sunflower butter.  I think it flares me a little bit though, by being simply too high in carbs for my own sensitivities.  So I may be stuck with spinach and supplements, eg some magnesium and beta carotine along with plenty of spinach.

Thanks, WeirdBeard. From my recollection of trying this before, a long time ago, only a small fraction of the vit E ends up getting into the liquid (and in big clumpy drops at that) while much remains coating the inside of the enema bottle, the tubing, etc.. so if one is supposed to take in 8000 IU a day, one might need 20 capsules or 20,000 IU of vit E to yield that result. Maybe I am being too pessimistic if this vit E is much more liquid than my prior experience. I'll certainly give it a shot.