I'm back to the forum after 6 years

You can never be sure that you are cured. There are alot of people that are in remission for more than 6 years. Some of them are for 20 years. It's not definitely good to be without doctor control for that time. You don't need to have blood, diarrhea, pain , but your disease can be present. I also have left sided UC, and was in full remission for 3 years, and during the remission when I did colonoscopy there were pseudopolyps, that are scare tissue after flair...I want to tell you, taht UC is serious disease, and you have to be into doctor control to prevent colon cancer...You can heal your colon but there is no metod to switch off your imune sistem...

I hope you will live your remission for a long...but please go to control colonoscopy...:*

Hi Sunny.32
I am so happy that you were able to escape from the symptoms of UC
(assuming the doctor who diagnosed you was correct).

You would not want to go back to having those symptoms so I hope you are eating (at least some) healthy foods and not "burning the candle at both ends" as a lot of college people do.
Since you've had the problem in the past, please be "proactive"...have regular medical checkups and, at the first sign of a problem, see either a gastro or holistic doctor before things get out of control.
I wouldn't wish this disease on anyone and hope you have continued success.

My cousin had severe UC from the time she was 16 to about age 30. The last drug she was on was 6mp. She went in remission and has been symptom free ever since. She's 48 now and is still in remission. No explanation to it...she doesn't take any meds. Consider yourself among the lucky ones and I hope it continues for you!

Awesome! Whatever works! How long did you do pranayama for? I know others who have had remission as a result but they were dedicated and did it for months on end (still do).

well they don't know for sure if UC is an autoimmune disease (meaning that it's a faulty immune system issue) or if it's an infection, body reacting to food sensitivities etc. I believe that it might be an AI disease in some but most likely UC is a series of symptoms clustered together and treated like a disease - more of a syndrome. Anyway, the theory behind pranayama (they're breathing exercises which target different parts of the body based on traditional interpretations of the causes of disease) is that the oxygen heals the targeted part of the body (yeah, I don't really know more than that but it's based on thousands of years of theory about the mind/body). Anyway, can't explain more, just that I've seen it work for UC, for diabetes (type 2), RA and other diseases. I was skeptical too but it certainly isn't going to hurt you.
Somedude, I'm in the same position as you are with my daughter and it sucks but I have seen people be healed by this, by hypnosis, by odd types of radical German therapy, homeopathy etc. You name it and I have actually seen that this does work for some people. It could simply be placebo but placebo is a real effect and as a homeopath I know said, if it placebo and it works, isn't that fantastic?
Anyway, I am a big believer in pranayama/yoga because I've seen it work, I've tried it myself for various things (not a serious medical condition but I would if I had to) and I think western science really has no clue as to why and how some things work.
A traditional Indian "cure all" which I had to have as a kid is milk and tumeric. Used it for a flu, cold, to heal a wound, swollen knee, arthritis etc. Turns out curcumin is one of the most potent natural anti inflammatories and has anti tnf properties. It's also anti viral/bacterial/fungal . Type in "IBD and Curcumin" in pubmed and see what comes up.
Anyway, don't mean to rant. I feel my daughter has an infection which no one can name and she'll probably lose her colon over it unfortunately. But that doesn't mean that some don't get better with this stuff.
BTW, "panchocolitis" sounds delicious. Is it anything like pan au chocolat?

Post Edited (killcolitis) : 2/3/2012 7:08:35 PM (GMT-7)

I'm guessing that's where the placebo effect comes in...

killcolitis, I'm in Germany - what sort of radical German therapies have you heard of??? I wanna try! I wanna try!

In college, I took an art of living course which focused on pranayama techniques. I wasn't flaring at the time, so no idea about the impact on my UC. Interesting stuff, but once the course ended, I practiced for all of a week or so then got distracted by other things.

sunny.32 said...
@cherchezlafemme
After watching 10 minutes of the movie "The Secret", I too just turned off the TV. However, I took the pain of watching the ENTIRE movie which WORKED for me! :)

Girlfriend had me watch it. Key thing was that you can easily create your own bad luck by having a bad attitude.

I said ok 'I want 10k in 30 days' and went into office next week and they sat me down and offered a 95k bonus to remain after laying off all but 2 other guys as the parent company was selling the baby company to new buyer. One year later we collected our full 'stay bonus' amount and I had a new job already started and overlapping. During much of that year I worked from home doing remote work for another company.

It was awesome! The girlfriend ? Well she never stopped complaining about her customers and where she lived. I told her its not just about being positive when things go well its about attracting good luck when things go wrong too. Her health suffered, she sold her business and moved and was just as unhappy in the next town.

Did your dad use past life regression or pranayama too?
i don't know how rare UC is in India - I know quite a few people there who are not in remission actually I was struck by how many people had it there that I happened to know after my daughter's diagnosis. and all of them were very worried about the meds the drs were pushing on them (one suggested infliximab immediately). so, i think it's misleading to suggest that most people with UC there are in some sort of yoga inspired remission. But, regardless, it's great that you are . What do you think actually worked for you?