ucfighter,
I'll be glad to share my list with you. I think if you implement these, you will definitely reduce your symptoms and your inflammation. I know it's helped me tremendously. Let me know if you have any other questions I can help you with.
Here's what's worked for me:
1) Diet is key for me: I do the Paleo diet, and I am
very, very careful with food combining, because if you mis-combine it creates
havoc! Here's some info on it: http://cureforulcerativecolitis.com/step-1-methodology-to-eating
2) Adding L-Glutamine powder 5 grams - for colonic
repair. If you're having issues with urgency and diarrhea, then you'll need to
take L-Glutamine powder 1 teaspoon mixed in a little water on an empty stomach,
and that should alleviate your symptoms alot.
3) Adding slippery elm bark powder - 1 tablespoon
mixed in a little water, 3-4 times a day - IMO it is the equivalent in nature to
the 5asa's and works much more effectively than all the mesalamines without the
side effects.
4) Probiotics are key. If you can get your doc to
write you a prescription for VSL#3 DS - that would be better, stronger, and
probably cheaper ( IMO 3 x per day at least) than buying
VSL#3.
5) Drink lots of good water.
6) Get your vit. d and b12 blood work done, to see if
you are deficient.
7) SCD diet - specific carbohydrate diet - many have
had lots of success with it. If you can't do it because it's so strict, at the
very least do dairy free, wheat free, gluten free. Personally, however I prefer
the Paleo diet, because it is
an anti-inflammatory diet - mostly veggies, salads,nuts, fish, lots of GRASS-fed
animal products like lamb, beef, bison, and eggs, no grains at all. The whole
basis of the diet is to concentrate on foods rich in healthy ratio of omega 3 to
omega 6, which is ideally 1:1. Grain-fed animal products contain unhealthy ratio
of 1:20 which causes and contributes to inflammation in the body, and therefore
disease. Also grass-fed animal products contain important CLA, which you cannot
get from any other source.
8) start a food journal and see what correlations come
forth
9) There's a great app for keeping track of your
symptoms, diet, meds, etc...
http://wellapps.com/products
10) Do some research on LDN - low dose
naltrexone, you can search this forum as they are several threads on this. I
can tell you it works!
Here's the Penn State research
done by Dr. Jill Smith with LDN and Crohns Patients.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21380937
https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2204683#m2222188,
https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2129791&p=1
11) Adding rectal meds. Are you on any rectal meds
like canasa suppositories or rowesa enemas?
12) You may want to add liquid vitamins/minerals to
make sure your stomach does not have to do the work of breaking them down, and
hence not absorbing them.
13) Also, I've been supplementing with good quality
whey protein - Dr. Mercola's Pro-Optimal Whey, which I make with almond milk (
you can see from my sig).
14) Astaxanthin is a great
anti-inflammatory
Good luck, and I hope you start to feel better soon.
Let us know how we can help you.