im going to cure my ulcerative colitis

hey everyone ive been reading posts on this forum for quite some time now. I had my first flare that lasted about 2 weeks around 2 years ago now. It went away and came back almost to the day the following year and lasted for a little over 2 months. really intense this time much worse than first. lost 25 pounds couldnt eat drink anything. flare stopped hair started falling out of my head from the sudden weight loss/malnutrition/stress I assume. I would say 4 months remission n now back in action going on 3 months. not as bad as the losing 25 pounds flare yet but im losing weight and generally look like death and kind of just been waiting for it to go away like it did before. oh yes the second flare I saw doc n got pred n antispasms. pred didnt help antispasms did. definitely went away on its own I had been off pred for weeks before it stopped. ok historys over had to give it now to the cure. ive known about juicing and raw food for a while now and done my fair share of both. but if anyone can relate when im in and around a flare I just want to eat comfort food. no juicing I want wendys. anyway I havent been eating well. and sidenote I have always believed this disease can be cured by diet/lifestylr changes not medicine so I was looking around and found dr david kleins book uall know the one self healing chrons colitis. well juiced carrot n beet this morning and already felt better. now my mom and I went out to cvs to buy tp midday n we bought 3 boxes of fiber 1 bars so of course I had to eat 3 of them and made a tuna salad wrap when we got home. then she made meatballs for dinner couldnt say no to them. and now as a result of my food choices I am about an hour removed from pooping my pants on the way to the bathroom. first time. it was awesome. anyway I am positive beyond a doubt that if I can have the discipline to drink vegetable juice and eat fruit like peaches or something then my colon is going to heal. if I dont have the discipline and cave im going to poop my pants again. ill be back with an update. adding cabbage juice to the mix too look that up.

I would suggest not to eat anything from Fiber One, as that is when i first noticed blood in my stool after I started eating fiber one bars everyday. I am not saying that is what caused this terrible disease, but I for one will never touch anything labeled fiber one again.

"I am positive beyond a doubt that if I can have the discipline to drink vegetable juice and eat fruit like peaches or something then my colon is going to heal" - be careful, juices and fresh fruit are in many countries (e.g. Poland) considered to be lethal for uc and my example would confirm that notion :)

If you haven't tried the SCD diet yet, I would recommend giving it a shot. It's probably one of the main things that actually really started to help me the most, and I never gave it a real chance before.

It isn't even hard to follow. For a couple of weeks (maybe even a month), just do a bland diet of this and don't cheat at all on it and see if you notice a change.

Breakfast: Scrambled Eggs (nothing in it at all) with Farmers Cheese

Lunch/Dinner: Marinated Chicken (I just do a typical marinade of Lemon, Olive oil, spices, I can link the recipe if you want) with no sides, just chicken.

When first changing to a diet like this, you may get watery stool. I think it's just your colon adjusting to a different diet. I noticed that after the first few days, you notice it goes away and starts to become way more controllable. Within 3-4 weeks, I was confident enough to actually go see a 3 hour movie and not be worried about rushing to a bathroom. I was pretty much starting to only go to the bathroom once maybe two times a day and it was fully controllable (with some gas, the gas always scared me because I was too used to that feeling of pressure meaning I had to run to a bathroom, but I eventually got used to it and could just let it out whenever)

Being really confident with those diet changes, I started to venture back to normal foods. First just sort of eating clean, but still off the diet like burritos without beans, burgers. I was still feeling really good and was thinking maybe it wasn't the diet, maybe it was something else. So I started to eat bad again, ice cream, bakery goods, it was all dandy for a good week or two, then it started to go downhill again.

I'm 100% positive being on the diet helped more than anything I've ever tried, so I cut the nonsense and stuck to it again and surely enough, back to feeling normal again. I think the diet gives you time to heal, and when you start healing, you can go back on those normal foods and think it's safe, but it will slowly start to tear you up again.

Back on the diet again and I'm feeling great. I would totally recommend at least trying it once and sticking to it. I think a lot of people get scared of the SCD because their website says to make homemade yogurt and all that crazy hard stuff. Just stick to Chicken, Eggs and Farmers cheese and take some vitamins (D, E, A, Selenium) and a good probiotic (Nature's Way Primadophilus Reuteri - I noticed taking the higher ones with multiple strands etc caused more harm than good.) Don't give up because you miss fast food or candy or sodas and say the diet doesn't work. Give it a real chance, then if after a few weeks it isn't helping at all, call it quits. If it works, start adding more SCD legal stuff to your diet.

Also, I've tried everything in the book. All meds even remicade etc., millions of supplements, you name it, I've likely tried it. Nothing has helped more than the SCD diet thus far.

Post Edited (Eric704) : 3/26/2015 5:48:32 AM (GMT-6)

Diet has done absolutely nothing for my uc symptoms. Everyone is different. I'd strongly encourage you to get on some uc medications, as the combination of uc medication and diet adjustment might work for you. Cheers,

I'm curious as to why you decided to juice the beets and carrots, eliminating their natural fibers, and instead ate Fiber One bars? Smoothies are the way to go. You get all the nutrients and fiber in the fruits and veggies from the skin. Juicing you waste so much of the good stuff.

Also, I think your big problem was eating 3 Fiber One bars. It may say it only contains 30% of your daily fiber needs, but our bodies aren't used to getting the 100% daily intake of fiber. Not to mention we get fiber in other things we eat. By eating 3, plus meals, you're over the recommended intake and that would force anyone, UC or not, to be on the toilet for hours. If you want to eat them, start with 1 a day. If you want to work up to 3 that's ok, just don't do it all at once. Then if you decide you don't want to eat them anymore, wean off them a little. Otherwise you're gonna get blocked up, unless you're replacing the bars with other fiber. I'm speaking from experience here.