Still in Remission from Spinach/Sunflower Seeds 3 Years Later

I found the sunbutter in the health food section of Kroger, rather than the peanut butter aisle. Never knew it existed but found it the first time I looked for it. Hope this helps.

Have been trying sun butter and spinach for 3 days and have seen positive results already.

Thanks to whoever found this combination.

Have also been on SCD for a week.

Hi,

Has anyone tried honey in the organic sunbutter

1 tsp honey 2 tbs sunbutter

or is honey supposed to be avoided???

thanks

Update: Day 7

Last night I took a canasa which stopped the blood again so will continue the canasa for a week at the very least. I woke this am at 5:30 after sleeping 7 hours and getting up once to pee but felt wide awake and got up feeling well rested. I remember have my typical heavy dreaming sessions but all the same I was really pleased to be that refreshed that early. I know something is getting better when that happens because until today I been waking tired and it has hard to get out of bed at 7:00am. I added an additional tablespoon of sunflower seed butter also as of yesterday. Things are looking pretty good. I will keep updating regularily..

Steve

Kiss520. Thanks for your response. I have been trying to look for the original recipe if there is one. I am taking a cup of boiled spinach and 2-3 tablespoons of organic sunbutter. Also, are you still on any medication or have you stopped completely.

I really really want the bleeding to stop. Cant focus on my work because of it. Is there any food that can help to stop the bleeding. I also tried fennel tea for a month but didnt help much.

Here is my usual daily diet

Breakfast: PlantFusion Protein Vanilla Bean shk + 1.5 tbsp organic sunbutter
Lunch: rice + (some kind of first soaked and cooked legumes)
evening snack: banana :)
Dinner: tortilla + 1 cup spinach and some soup (usually split peas or black eyed peas)
sunbutter 1 tea spoon before and after

I also wanted to ask if a 30 min jog would help or worsen the bleeding. I would love to go back to the gym.

Thanks for your response.

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UC first diagnosed in feb 2011 but have been suffering since early 2009
Have been on lialda which worked pretty well. recently switched to balsalazide but thinking of requesting the doc to switch it back to a mesalamine.

onecure - No, I'm not on medication at all.  Once my symptoms went away completely (using the diet), I tapered off meds over the course of a couple weeks and haven't taken any since then.  That was nearly three years ago.

The diet got rid of my bleeding, it's not just for urgency, frequency, etc.  

Regarding exercise, I'm no doctor but I would think it would be safe as long as you feel like you have the energy and strength for it.  Personally, I had no desire to exercise because I had no energy or strength until I started gaining weight back.  I had lost twenty pounds and tore a muscle in my calf, so I was a lazy sack of you-know-what for a good while. ;-)

Whatever you decide, just don't push yourself too hard.   I'm absolutely sure that my injury wouldn't have happened if my body had been healthy and normal.  I've always been an athlete and fairly resilient, and I tore my muscle just squatting down!  So be careful and take it slow. 

soystud - I used to eat roasted and salted sunflower seeds, and they worked for me.  I can't imagine why they wouldn't work in the form of a spread.

Cita - That's fantastic that you're seeing results so quickly!  Hopefully the spinach will make you feel even better.  Good luck and keep us posted.  I love hearing this great feedback!

Kiss520 Thanks for your response. It helps.

onecure - Anytime!

ChrissySoul - OK, I have a few questions.  First, how were you doing before the diet?  Were you in a flare?  How bad was it?  Second, did your doctor have you taper off pred?  Or did you do it on your own?  If you did it on your own, what made you decide that? 

Kiss- I am tapering slower than my doc wanted actually. I have not been doing a diet for a couple months and have been doing well. When I taper I get this ghost diarrhea that goes away the next day so I'm wondering if it will be that way again cuz now I don't feel sick yet again. I've been doing well but would say still in a mild flare. I keep thinking to do scd but I really don't want to lol :( oh nice it seems like a lot of ppl are posting about this

ChrissySoul - If it's not causing you too much trouble and you can get through the day, I would say keep going with the spinach and sunbutter.  I guess it's all a matter of what you can tolerate.  Before I started the diet, I was going to the bathroom all day every day.  Going even more was scary but I was already so bad it almost didn't matter.