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Posted 8/21/2013 12:52 PM (GMT 0)
I once soaked a large piece of heavy felt material in warm cod liver oil, and while laying down, draped it over my abdomen.

This was suggested by a naturopathic specialist I saw.
Posted 8/21/2013 1:06 PM (GMT 0)
Pranic healing.

Sue
Posted 8/21/2013 2:13 PM (GMT 0)
I'm pretty sure the idea of shoving a bottle of crap up your butt seems like the most ridiculous - until you read about it 100x's on this forum and actually try it yourself. 
Posted 8/21/2013 4:04 PM (GMT 0)
I wouldn't say this is considered funny but I tried acupuncture. It didn't help but it didn't hurt either. Well, it hurt my wallet!
Posted 8/21/2013 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
I'd say the funniest thing I've ever done trying to get rid of my uc, was creating the screenname 'ipoop' on HW and posting lots of embarrassing uc questions and answers about pooping pants, urgency, and lots of other things lol tongue
Posted 8/21/2013 4:37 PM (GMT 0)
I Still use a pulsed electromagnetic field therapy mat. Going off of the belief that we are energy, maybe, by using the mat I will be able to raise my cell vibrations so they are on the same frequency so that they may be able to recognize each other there for the fighter cells will not attack the good cells. I know, I'm desperate, I will try just about anything....it sure doesn't hurt.

Cindy
Posted 8/21/2013 8:09 PM (GMT 0)
obviously, it's still rectal meds....because I'm still sarcastically harassed about it    turn  

I've never tried anything else "funny".

q
Posted 8/21/2013 8:12 PM (GMT 0)
In the beginning, I used enemas...W.T.F B.B.Q. Slap me silly. That some funny shaat, me believing that enemas are worth something when heavy hitters such as remi/humira barely hold the fort.
Posted 8/21/2013 8:17 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah dude, that is funny....but you're not using them now in conjunction with the heavy hitters.

q
Posted 8/21/2013 8:21 PM (GMT 0)
Well, I didn't think they were silly but I know some here will- swallowed pig whipworm eggs and human whipworm eggs multiple times; let human hookworms borrow into my skin via a bandage on a journey to my gut; stuffed my then girlfriend's poop into my sigmoid; slathered DMSO all over my belly on multiple occasions; etc. the silliest thing that I tried, IMO, was NAET- holdi g vials of various foods, supplements, or substances in one hand while a practitioner tests the "muscle resistance" of the arm holding it- truly idiotic IMO- reminded me of the quack on seinfeld who turned Costanza purple:

youtu.be/uH5IMv2jeuk

Post Edited (Probiotic) : 8/21/2013 2:25:26 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/21/2013 8:23 PM (GMT 0)
Eh, I don't think rectal meds are silly...I mean, there's loads of data to back up their effectiveness.

That said, I don't believe they work for everyone. I do think everyone should at least try them, though.
Posted 8/21/2013 8:46 PM (GMT 0)
Pro..my chiropractor did something like that w. calcium/magnesium..lol.
Posted 8/21/2013 10:07 PM (GMT 0)

The stupidest thing I did was eat clay because it was being heavily promoted by someone one this board.

The thing that did work for me was the spinach sunflower  seed diet.  I kid you not, I've been off the lialda for a year now.  I may have only a VERY mild case of UC (dx in 2009) but it really worked for me.

I haven't been on this site, simply because I have nothing else to report.

I hope everyone can get the treatment that works for them!

Posted 8/21/2013 11:26 PM (GMT 0)
Lol, s&sf- tried that too- tolerated the spinach part well but the sf seeds or sunbutter outright flared me. Glad it helped you though.

Old Mike needs to chime in on this thread-- He never tried FT or worms but he tried stuff as nutty as the "zapper".
Posted 8/21/2013 11:27 PM (GMT 0)
I tried Acupuncture too along with Chinese massage, neither of them helped in the slightest!
Posted 8/21/2013 11:48 PM (GMT 0)
When I was BEYOND sick and in the process of switching doctors (I was still waiting for my first appointment with my current GI, who's great), one of the faculty members in my department sort of took me under her wing and gave me a huge list of supplements to take (she herself had IBS and these supps all helped her). Even though I'm very science minded and I don't do "natural" remedies that haven't been mentioned by at least 2 doctors I trust, I was really sick and desperate.

So I went to Whole Foods and bought a specific probiotic, fish oil capsules, chamomile tea, and slippery elm bark capsules. ENTIRELY out of character for me, and it made a HUGE dent in my limited monthly budget. The supplements actually made me sicker. I threw them all out.
Posted 8/21/2013 11:54 PM (GMT 0)
I remember someone on HW talking about the benefits of locally applied Vitamin E. Well, I followed directions and used the difficult to puncture and squeeze oily capsules. I had those greasy little suckers squirting all over my bathroom. Getting this oil inserted into my rectum was not a picnic either. It gave me the giggles when I thought about how ridiculous this all seemed but it helped a little. I also had a lot of greasy laundry to deal with.
Posted 8/21/2013 11:57 PM (GMT 0)
the dumbest thing I tried was the 80/10/10 fruitarian diet. biggest mistake ever!! I hadn't flared at all in four years/no meds and then when I try that diet, all hell breaks loose. some how it never occurred to me that a high fiber diet would be a bad idea.

I've also done muscle testing with supplements and foods tons of times. seems pretty stupid and I don't understand it.

i'd say reiki was pretty ridiculous, too. I had a guy "touch" my head and belly and do this healing chants for me.

and obviously, fecal transplant is the GROSSEST thing I've ever done.

looking back on it, I don't regret trying anything. UC makes a person desperate and I was/am.
Posted 8/22/2013 12:00 AM (GMT 0)
ledaebel, ahh I did that, too!! I would sit on the couch with tweezers and break 20 of those little buggers open. then i'd use a baby ear syringe, slurp em up, and shove it up my butt. ahhh fun times.
Posted 8/22/2013 12:03 AM (GMT 0)
Yea I have tried zappers, and Rife which I still believe in.
I have eaten sausage casings to try and induce oral tolerance to intestines.
Have eaten dirt,to get soil bacteria.

Perhaps a breast milk enema may be next.

But the funniest thing I have seen on this site is the guy who claimed to drink a poop milkshake.

Old Mike

Posted 8/22/2013 12:06 AM (GMT 0)
Most health food stores sell liquid vitamin E in little glass bottles.
Posted 8/22/2013 12:55 AM (GMT 0)
Mike that is the grossest thing I ever read! LOL
Posted 8/22/2013 1:09 AM (GMT 0)
John: Here is the old thread.

Old Mike

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2330713

Posted 8/22/2013 2:36 AM (GMT 0)
OM- I remember that guy...wierdal. How desperate are we? This thread is pretty funny. What is wierd is that I too have tried alot of this crazy stuff.(okay, not the poopshake).
Posted 8/22/2013 3:28 AM (GMT 0)
Yes!!! The poopshake!! That was one of the FIRST threads I read after I was diagnosed and I thought it was *typical*. Scared the s--- out of me! (and probably straight down weirdal's throat...)
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