Ulcerative colitis recovery through urine therapy

Just by the subject line I guessed what I was going to read and boy, its even worse. I didn't bother reading other replies (and I suspect that the thread has deviated). I personally would not drink, but I don't give oral either, just in case you give and rambled here. Connect the dots if you are smart enough. Some faction of Ancient Indian medicine recommended it. When my father in law's gout got worse and the medications were limited because of his other ailments, he tried Urine therapy (Shivambu as its called). It grossed me out but its FIL, kept my mouth shut. It took about 3 months for him to see effect. Conclusion-It helped him. I found it surprising because before trying out anything I try to find scientific evidence, and this has none. Take home message, it helped him. He isn't doing it for last year or so, but somehow his gout is 'fixed'.

If you are not from the culture, its OK to find it odd or even gross but the kind of comments OP got are totally unacceptable. Is that how a mature person should react to something they find odd, and esp. when some of us are struggling with conventional medications? Put yourself in shoes of the person in question and go from there.


To OP,
Personally, I have not heard use of urine therapy in UC. UC is 'relatively new' to try out with urine therapy. My FIL suggested me, but as I said, it grosses me out and didn't/wouldn't try. I read that you already started it. If I were you, I would exhaust all other option before trying out such drastic measures. If you are taking medications for other ailments, you must watch out (even birth control pills). Ignore the nasty/uneducated/evil remarks, and post how it goes.

A request to mods - I know my reply is not nice, absolutely not how I usually post here. If this post is going to be edited, in all fairness other posts should be edited too.

Thank you Gary and Stealth for explaining the pill procedure. It doesn't seem to bad from that standing.

I got confused with your third paragraph. You said that your other protocol (not UT) put you into remission then go on to say "But now, I'm working on it and it's showing good results. That's why I said I don't know if it's a placebo effect since I want it to work or if it really is working". I'm confused as to why you would even do it at all if the other protocol had put you into remission.

I'm into a quality of life remission that I consider a remission. Most would not say it is a remission as I am still bleeding and still have some gas pains but nothing compared to a major flare up. That's why I am trying the UT to see if it will stop the bleeding as nothing else worked. Plus my doctor is a little hard headed when it comes to enemas; he suggested Remicade instead and wouldn't even give me a prescription to try them. Hope that cleared it up, as sometimes I can choose poor words to explain myself!

Your doctor is a butt hole. That's ridiculous to refuse giving you a prescription for something you request that is less evasive (enemas) in favor of something with many known side effects including cancer (I know the odds are pretty low). I would have fired him on the spot and gotten a new doctor. What is yellow dock extract? Never heard of that one.

Tell me about it! If I'm remembering correctly, I have even brought it up on two different visits; one explaining to him how I heard good results from another UCer (I believe it was one of Quincy's posts that made me want to try it). Sigh and speaking of cancer, it is very common in my family; both my parents had it and my brother too so I hope I don't have any problems with that because of Remi. I'm actually thinking about looking for a new GI but I don't want to get a more recent colonscopy. I always dread the preps.

Yellow doct is a plant that grows in Asia. I went to an herbalist store and this item was suggested for it's good source of iron. It's a blood purifier, general detoxifier, mild laxative and mild diuretic. It helps release the iron that is stored in your liver and improve the absorption of iron from the intestines. You can look for it on google as "yellow doct root". Although you can't depend on it permanently otherwise there are some side effects to it such as metabolic acidosis and life-threatening calcium deficiency.

Dear garylouisville
Please read all my posts if you can. I posted this because I could see a very fast response from UT (within 7-10 days). I was wondering about the turn around and thought of posting here, so that if anybody suffering with their flare wants to try this before going through all the hassles like steroids etc which have lots of side effects (which I have faced in the past years, still facing now). And I said I don't know whether my UT results will remain the same in the future! I am posting the present situation. I am also experimenting with it. I got to know about "UT" recently from my dad, I am not aware of it before. If I would have known at least in 2012, I would have tried then and would have not chosen the "remecade".
In the books I have mentioned in earlier posts, had clearly mentioned about ulcerative colitis and chrones, among so many illnesses. That's why I asked to read the books and collect some data on how to do it before making any decision.
I was not aware of that we cannot post the names of places (centres ayurveda etc) here. I was new to this forum then. I tried ayurveda and homeo, but it didn't work for me. Of course it might help somebody else!!
I am not saying all the people to follow UT, just posting my experiments which worked for me till today. Hope the best for tomorrow!!!
If it is a flop, I would definitely post here. I don't want people to be misguided!!! Till today I am doing fine.
Answer to your another question, I always change my diet for 2 -3 months during my flare (all the past 5 years), it never helped to control the UC. Only steroids worked till 2012 and then no. So after that it is remecade. So I am seeing going the medication level up and up every time!!! So if some natural treatment without side effects could control it, I personally prefer to do that!!! Hope I explained everything here!!!!

Dear anamika
Thanks for sharing your experience .M having active flare up of UC recently then went for Ayurvedic treatment called Basti wich I found xtremely effective. Now I wanted to go for UT?How are your symptoms now?
Waiting for ur reply :)
wishing u healthy days ahead

Hey iPoop,
Thanks for ur reply..I came across a book Your-Own-Perfect-Medicine-by-Martha-Christy-.This book has thrown a light on the benefits of UT. Hope it will be of great benefit to UC sufferers. BTW hv u ever tried UT?

No, I haven't tried UT, and I never would want to try it either. I'm highly skeptical it does anything at all. Sorry, if you feel any better at all then it is most likely just a placebo affect.

I have tried UT for my ulceritive colitis and i see good improvements.

Here goes my history: Got affected with UC few months back and was with Mesalamine and Uceris for (3 months). After leaving the steroid, the UC symptoms again came back. (I was diagnosed with Moderate). The flare ups will make me to go to restroom 15 to 20 times in 24 Hr.

When the flare up started the second time I was only with Mesalamine and it did not do anything good for me. I started UT and in 3 days I started to see improvement and after 3 to 4 weeks of UT. now the symptom completely stopped and in my follow up visit to GI the blood report told that the inflammation markers are normal now. Now started to try many food varieties. From next month the GI has advised to reduce the mesalamine step by step.

dear Burli,

I am new to this forum and joined recently yesterday and I am not the one who posted long back.

I posted this to share my experience and I would be very happy to see/hear any person (even 1) who comes out of this problem.

Initially I did not trust this and since day by day my condition was getting worst, I thought let me try this for a week. I did not do much research on this but it gives me GREAT difference and I am happy that I am getting rid of the problem. My dosage of mesalmine is reduced and I have also stopped the mesalamine enema.

I was going through one video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH1y3MYWkP8

Run the video and watch in about 1:02 (HH:MM). This made me to start this and I see a tremendous improvement.

I am not convincing any one to do this and it is for your information.

Also as your friend commented there is nothing so specific to tell that people from one country are eating unhealthy food. It is quite diversified and there are many people in India who eat junk foods/oily foods. The govt regulation is very poor in India and many restaurants use the same cooked oil for months to fry stuffs which is highly toxic.

For real, I'm feeling sicker after reading this than what my flare has me feeling like atm.

But some of you nay-sayers need a reality check. As if any of you actually give a crap about forum members that may be persuaded to try something another member posts about. Please. You don't care about anyones safety. You're boasting, as usual. People that post on this forum are absolutely harmless and i'm so tired of seeing forum regulars kick others that find something that works for them and recommend it to others, by saying, "this should be deleted, this isn't a cure and this is going to lead people to believe in drinking their own pee will cure all."

First of all, where did the OP use the word cure? As usual -- he/she didn't, you just saw a book title the OP recommended. And second, if you yourself don't believe in a quick fix by drinking urine, why pretend to worry about others who might do this and then call this spam? Get a grip. Post your thoughts, not your negative feedback. Enlighten us with research or something that proves otherwise, not just a strong distaste for drinking pee.

Hey guys, this isn't a pissing contest so stop getting pissed off at each other over this pissy thread....support and respect is what we need from each other so can we let this thread die again please rather than letting it piss people off...and yes all puns intended...too easy!

I agree that this is an open forum and that it is counterproductive to only make positive posts. All sides of an argument should be heard and then individual posters and readers can make the most informed decisions possible. Whether the thread is about meds, diets, alternatives, or surgery the more information available, both good and bad, the more informed decisions can be made. I really hated it when I found out that my first doctor for my first autoimmune disease was doing nothing but blowing false sunshine up my ass instead of telling me the truth.