Suggestions?

Hi, are you taking a good probotic?

Have you thought about keeping a food diary for a month? it can help, some foods can aggravate your gut, and its hard to keep track of what you have consumed in a day, so its definitely worth giving it a go.....

I don't take VSL so I am not sure how many you should take, perhaps someone will chime in.

With regards the Turmeric I found this info online... "one 900mg curcumin capsule can be roughly equated to five regular turmeric curry meals. Besides curcumin’s low absorption into the bloodstream, the other documented problem with this product is that it is not advisable to use repeatedly without food in the stomach because it tends to cause upsets to the stomach if taken on empty stomachs"

I think you might be taking too much, I think I would take two or three a day, not six.

I think before you take anything you need to Google, find out exactly how much you should be taking, especially as you have UC, and need to be careful...

With regards a food diary...what you do is to keep thing simple, start off with simple foods, and write down everything you eat, at what times, and whether your tummy hurts or not, and in what way, and sometimes you will know almost instantly as you run to the bathroom!...Personally I started off on quite a limited diet and built it up as I waded through foods...Most people with UC can eat most things, BUT most people with UC find that they have problems with a few things, like for me its broccoli and green beans, remember everyone is different.

I eat very well, but avoid a few things, its a common mistake to believe you can barely eat anything with UC, not true!


If you go to the top of the page and click on "Search" type in anything to do with food and diet and you will receive a lot of helpful information.

Ive read alot on the capsules. It seems that for tumeric to work u need to take alot of the capsules .also i never get stomach pains. My symptom is the constant urgency .i guess i need to see what foods make the urgency worse. And vsl i guess ill cut back and see what happens .also, did you ever have experience with rowasa enamas? I was wondering how long it can take till the bleeding stops

Hi sephora, maybe you should try uceris? I believe you can add it to your current regime without switching anything around.

For food, it definitely makes a difference. You don't have to eat only one thing a day, but if you can put together a limited meal plan for a few weeks, it could be what your colon needs to rest a bit and heal.

My GI gave me a couple weeks worth of samples of VSL 3 caps, he told me to take 2 day. So far I have been doing very well on them. I was already feeling better, but with the VSL I have only had bad urgency in the mornings. Within a couple hours of being awake and taking the VSL, I am able to go to work and make it the 9 hours without more than a couple bathroom trips. Granted, I am also still on Prednisone, but I still felt like I was going a lot through the day before I started the VSL.

I just picked up the caps from my local CVS, they were able to order them for me since no stores near me regularly carry it, but they had it in 24 hours for me. It's around $50 for 60 caps (so a month supply for me).