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Posted 9/4/2010 3:03 PM (GMT 0)
Okay I'm cracking up. That is so funny. I always get from my husbands side of the family. If I would eat this and that and not eat this and that and if I didn't worry. It will just go away. You can explain and explain and most people think it is what you eat and if you stop dont, this and that it will go away. You can explain until you are blue in the face. Most people will never understand. This diesese is horrible and horrible to live with. I guess all you can do is laugh. I'm still cracking up. tongue
Posted 9/4/2010 3:48 PM (GMT 0)
Sounds just like my neighbor who found out I have UC and now keeps stopping by my house with photocopies of things that will most certainly (NOT!) help me, books to read, etc.  She even gave me a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide and told me that if I drink (yes, DRINK!) an once every day, all of my troubles will go away.  Some people...
Posted 9/4/2010 4:01 PM (GMT 0)
Well that does it I am gunna sit down to a cool glass of hydrogen peroxide and a box of coconut macaroons and cure myself! :P

Seriously, I think that is nice the lady is trying to help and she means well, but people really don't understand not everything works for everyone.
Posted 9/4/2010 4:26 PM (GMT 0)
if you dont try nothing will work, i'd be happy to have a neighbour who take caee of me, and peroxyde is as edilable as deltacortene or imuran for sure.
Posted 9/5/2010 12:00 AM (GMT 0)
She is right about the processed food though. You should always buy fresh. Processed is so bad, expecially with people who have UC
Posted 9/6/2010 1:36 AM (GMT 0)
Pretty ballsy of her. I would've gotten mad and made a mean comment. I haven't run into anyone that bad yet. Maybe someday!
Posted 9/6/2010 4:59 PM (GMT 0)
HA HA HA HA HA!!!! You should have told her that the cure for a big mouth is also macaroons... lots and lots of macaroons.
Posted 9/7/2010 3:35 AM (GMT 0)
OMG...Thanks for the GREAT laugh...bwahahahahaaaaaa!!!!
That for sure I'll remember!


q
Posted 9/7/2010 4:33 PM (GMT 0)
You should ask her if the macaroons have to be store bought or homemade? I'm going to have to go get myself some of those! Don't think I'd try them as enemas though, kinda scratchy!

I loved the comment of macaroons fixing a big mouth too! Hilarious!
Posted 9/7/2010 4:34 PM (GMT 0)
Okay, couldn't resist... here's the recipe in case you feel like curing your own UC:

Ingredients

* 1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 2 egg whites
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. In a small bowl, combine the coconut, sugar, flour and salt. Stir in egg whites and vanilla; mix well.
2. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 325 degrees F for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.
Posted 9/7/2010 8:38 PM (GMT 0)
I made the coconut macaroons and have eaten my dose for today. Looking forward to curing my UC!
Posted 9/7/2010 9:08 PM (GMT 0)
Keep us posted!
q
Posted 9/8/2010 4:35 AM (GMT 0)
The macaroons have in fact made things worse. One almost normal BM shortly after and was excited. Since then have had many more BMs that were not exciting at all, very much unformed and burning in passage. I have to admit I ate more than the allowed 2, more like 6 since they were so good. Luckily the family ate the rest so no more to perpetuate decline.

Oh well, worth a try. Have ordered the SCD book and hoping it will help if I have the determination to follow the diet.

Any new cures to report out there? What have I got to lose?
Posted 9/8/2010 12:58 PM (GMT 0)
Ok, since I am in this sort of mood... Im going to request a 'Macaroon being shoved up a well meaning individual's ***' smilie.

You guys had me in stitches! I SO needed that today!
Posted 5/17/2015 3:03 PM (GMT 0)
Actually, she's not too far off. Coconut oil and well cooked vegetables are the last two pieces of my puzzle to heal me. I also do an anti-inflammatory diet, aloe vera juice, probiotics and foods are organic or wild. No boxed/package products. No alcohol. No sugar. No white flours. Cook at home.

Colitis is an inflammatory disease. What the docs don't tell you is that all of the drugs for IB diseases can cause cancer. Don't mask the symptoms. Treat the disease.

No meds. No colitis for 8 years.
Posted 5/17/2015 5:01 PM (GMT 0)
What the docs don't tell you is that all of the drugs for IB diseases can cause cancer. Don't mask the symptoms. Treat the disease.

What I'll tell you is the chances of getting cancer from any of the IBD drugs is so remote as to be zero. And that long-term use of mesalamines have been proven to have a protective effect against colorectal cancer.

What I will also tell you that your doctors won't is that diet no more "treats" disease than meds do. I'm going to assume by "treat" in this instance that you mean treat the underlying cause of the disease. Diet doesn't do that. Well, maybe in rare cases it does, if e.g. 'colitis' is actually a food intolerance. But if it's actual IBD, then no.

No meds. No colitis for 8 years.

So? There've been people on the Crohn's board who were in remission for 20 years. Basically somebody would have to be in remission for 30 years and counting for me to be impressed by that claim.

PS: This is a 5-year-old thread anyway!
Posted 5/17/2015 7:51 PM (GMT 0)
I would argue you've been misdiagnosed as having uc when you had infectious colitis.
Posted 5/17/2015 10:57 PM (GMT 0)
AnnMarie, I think it's great that you have found relief but it is not as simple as that for everyone. If it was easy as "manage your diet and don't drink alcohol", we'd have all been cured a long time ago.
Posted 5/18/2015 2:53 AM (GMT 0)
Hahaha that's awesome. I had a similar experience when an old lady at Walmart harassed me because I said I didn't celebrate Easter with my 2 year old. She was appalled lol. I explained I wasn't religious and she did not like that at all haha. Anyways that's funny that people think they can recommend stuff to us when they don't even have UC lol idiots
Posted 5/18/2015 1:14 PM (GMT 0)

quincy said...
Maybe they'd work as suppositories? lol.

q

LOL!!!!!!
Posted 5/18/2015 3:13 PM (GMT 0)

iPoop said...
I would argue you've been misdiagnosed as having uc when you had infectious colitis.


Yup, either that or the colitis is VERY mild...
Posted 5/18/2015 3:20 PM (GMT 0)

luv2ride said...
Okay, couldn't resist... here's the recipe in case you feel like curing your own UC:

Ingredients

* 1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
* 1/3 cup sugar
* 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 2 egg whites
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. In a small bowl, combine the coconut, sugar, flour and salt. Stir in egg whites and vanilla; mix well.
2. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 325 degrees F for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.

I'm going to replace the flour with ground cashew meal or almond meal.
Posted 5/19/2015 4:14 AM (GMT 0)
I am still laughing someone suggested cookies are the cure for uc lol.
Posted 5/19/2015 4:18 AM (GMT 0)
I agree with nicecupoftea- I do not believe that diet is going to cure uc. I do believe it can assist in keeping symptoms at bay, but I do believe meds are very important. To tell yourself that food is gonna cure you is not truth. Can help symptoms but in the end it is autoimmune. I have never had food put me in remission, it has always been meds that have helped me.
Posted 5/19/2015 10:42 AM (GMT 0)

Chrissysoul said...
I am still laughing someone suggested cookies are the cure for uc lol.

I so want the cure to be cookies. A cookie a day keeps the uc away, I would be so happy to have them rather than pills :-)
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