Scd anyone?

I tried scd for a while but it didnt take away any inflammation. The intro diet is like a starvation diet. I lasted four days on it but experienced lots of dizziness, headaches and lethargy. The plus side was that my bathroom trips decreased since i was taking in so little food.

I am a fan of the perfect health diet and resistant starches. That was the only way of eating that made a difference for me.

I would like to chime in and advise FODMAPS ellimination diet, much easier to do. Good luck

what do you consider frequent, ma ?

well ma, it's not perfect, but it aint bad either imo -

just try making one change at a time and unless you have an immediate bad reaction, stay with it for a bit - maybe a week or two before you do something else -

gluten takes a while to get out of your system - it takes months for me, both causing a problem and getting rid of it - but some folks notice a difference right away -

and if you do try to go wheat/gluten free, pleez pleez pleezzzzzzzzz, don't go to the store and start buying gluten free replacement stuff off the shelf -

by avoiding gluten, rice, and corn ;-)


the point about avoiding store stuff is that so much of it is full of crap - so if you do have any food sensitivities, trying something new may cause more harm than good -

as well as you are doing, you don't want to mess with much imo - that's why I suggest making small changes one at a time -

the tendency for me, and I think for many others, is that when I'm feeling really bad, I want to get better quick, so I want to try EVERYTHING and try it NOW - that just doesn't work in most instances -

fortunately, you're in a good place, so patience should be easier -

yup sofl, unfortunately, sometimes we don't have a choice -

I tried scd, it did nothing for me, but I hope it can help you as it has many others. Keep track of what hurts you and works with you. Our relationship with food as people with colitis has only one status: It's complicated.

i suppose it may depend more on what you do after stopping the scd than the stopping itself -


kinda like if you just stopped bashing yourself over the head with a brick you'd probably feel better - but if traded the brick for an anvil, maybe not so much -

I'm about to try pascalite clay. Any other suggestions for getting out of minor flare that won't go away?

Hi! Going back to the original question, I've had success with SCD. I've been on the diet for almost 1.5 years. When I started SCD, I was on Remicade but flaring between infusions. It took about 3 weeks to be symptom free but I saw improvement in the first couple of days. I got my final Remi infusion 5 weeks after I started the diet, then took Lialda for close to a year, and now don't take any meds. A colonoscopy in August of this year showed that I'm in remission.