My Experiment

Sibby said...
For the last few months I've been writing a feature story regarding sleep disorders. This is a portion of my findings:
"A study points out that changes in sleep is often one of the first responses to acute inflammation and infection. Evidence shows that sleep disturbances can worsen chronic inflammatory conditions, aggravate disease symptoms like pain and fatigue, increase disease activity, and lower quality of life.
Sleep disruptions can lead to immune suppression and increase in cytokine molecules that control the body’s immune response."

But the study shows that sleep disruptions won't cause IBD but can effect it significantly.

http://www.jpp.krakow.pl/journal/archive/12_03_s4/pdf/183_12_03_s4_article.pdf

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 5/22/2012 4:24:43 AM (GMT-6)

I have found a way to control colitis in terms of bowel movements. I have mentioned some very important things in this thread, in terms of sufficent sleep (by 10pm or 10:30pm), exercise 30 - 45mins, and diet (organic foods, organic vegetables and fruits, no processed sugar, etc.).

But the biggest improvement has been with taking probiotics in addition to all of the above. I have found that by taking four capsuels of probiotics with every meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) my stools have become solid. Not only that, but instead of going six times a day, I am going twice a day. Basically, I open each capsuel and I mix it's contents into my food before eating and that's it.

The only problem is that it can be expensive consuming upto tweleve probiotic capsuels a day; but it beats the alternative.

The probiotics I use are called Dds-100 Acidophilus, but you should give it a try with the probiotics you are accustomed to.

Finally, please remember that what works for me, may not work for you and its the combination of sleep, exercise, diet and probiotics together that works for me.

I really hope this helps someone, because it's the closest thing to a cure I have found in three years.

take care,

NBT

All the same I been avoiding daily as a whole while I pull myself out of a recent flare I had from a botched Vitamin E enema experiment. I stopped all meds and made it 34 days then the dam broke. I am about a month into recovery and doing well. Down to 2 movements a day but they are soft and scatter when flushing. No blood since starting back up on Canasa for two more weeks to see if I actually need it more regularily. My doc seems to think I can get by with just the 6 asacol hd80 daily. I guess we will see.

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