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Posted 2/26/2015 11:53 AM (GMT 0)
Well Kevin your guess is as good as mine.
We know stress, whether the docs believe it or not seems to contribute to UC onset.
We now that radical diet changes can change the populations of gut bacteria,and we can also stress
the gut bugs, it they don't get enough food, they can start to eat more of your mucus.
From diet threads on this site, it seems than when people make a radical change one way or the other, that can help with remission.
I don't believe it is a single pathogen, unless there was a gut infection or possibly MAP.
But once the mucus gets weakened there is a poly microbial breach of the mucus, these are just
your normal gut bugs, who would just love to get to your mucosa.
As to why this can happen in the first place, remains to be figured out, but I lean towards impaired
antioxidant status.

Anyway what exactly are you doing with supplements, especially since you cant get Bupropion.
Seems to me that lowering TNF-A is a key for anything to work.
Old Mike
Posted 2/26/2015 3:20 PM (GMT 0)
Interesting... Thanks Mike. I do have some MTFHR mutations, which are known to interfere with methlyation pathways, preventing the body's natural antioxidant processes from working properly. That's something I took from PathogenKiller's posts originally. I got tested with 23andme. Maybe that's all it takes to be "genetically susceptible"?

At first, I basically did everything possible to end the inflammatory cycle, which for me meant a week's course of pred enemas to get things under control, an anti-inflammatory diet (which I was pretty strict with) and herbs. Cat's claw, nettle and Qing Dai initially brought everything back to normal and much faster than I expected. As a last resort, I had planned to purchase generic Bupropion from Canada. It's not illegal to do that but it isn't very safe either so thankfully, I got a good response with herbs.

Then I began with the protocol. These are the two things I did differently from what Briggs recommends:

1. I ate less veg than was recommended, instead replacing some of it with powdered organic fibre supplements. That's literally just because I couldn't stomach that much veg. The powdered fibre contained the types mentioned in Phase 2 point A.
2. I drank whiskey once a week, even though all alcohol was meant to be avoided.

I'm in a very stable remission at the moment where I'm eating anything I want but I reckon I need to be on my current supplement regime for a good year before I decide to drop anything. That said, I won't be re-introducing seeds (except seed butter) or nuts for some time, although I didn't eat these pre-UC anyway. I also still take 4.8g Mesavant XL daily.

It may or may not be relevant but before I started any of this, I also did a general detox protocol which included WOO & Thyme Oil. I mention that just in case it helped to destroy a lot of "bad" bacteria without me realising it.
Posted 8/4/2015 6:25 PM (GMT 0)
Just wanted to give an update since I have been on Wellbutin SR 300MG 3 times a day for almost 6 months now. I had some slight sleep side effects where I would have trouble falling asleep(normally not a problem deep sleeper). That has either subsided or I have gotten used to it probably the former. Before starting I was going during the night, and about every 2.5-3 hours during the day. After about a month the first thing I noticed was I was no longer getting up at nights. Then I would have days where I would only go once every 6 hours. Since I started feeling better my diet and habits began to slip and I enjoyed eating fast food more, pizza, beer, etc but soon realized that was not going to work. I mean hey when you can't eat those things you miss them..so I went a little overboard :) I went to an allergy place and tried to get them to do the test the Briggs recommends but they had never heard of testing using what he suggested. They instead took my blood and ran tests. My WBC pretty much attack everything but chicken, white rice, and maybe a few other things. Knowing that I couldn't survive on that diet I decided to eliminate the top two offenders...Gluten and Casein. Since doing that I managed to get my stools down to every 6 hours solid almost everyday. I have gotten to the point where I don't think about my DD except when I have to go and then its brief. My stools again for the most part are sinkers, decent color, but never all one piece. They are small little rabbit turds if you will. I still ocassionally see blood and see mucus everyday so I am not in remission but pretty darn close. I recently started removing foods high in thiols and my poop/farts no longer melt walls..they dont smell like roses either. I am one of those dumpers that just about runs out of the bathroom to make sure nobody sees its me. I still am struggling getting past stage one and just yesterday ordered some new(like past few years) curcumin pill. Hope that wellbutrin, reducing thiols, glutamine powder, and reducing gluten/casein is the ticket to remission.
Posted 8/4/2015 6:49 PM (GMT 0)
Just curious, do you know the Imuran is helping? Also, do you know the peppermint oil is working? I tried it once and it didn't seem to do much of anything and I heard it can cause diarrhea. At least you're going in the right direction.
Posted 8/4/2015 6:51 PM (GMT 0)
I stopped the Imuran 75mg because we are thinking about having another child and I didn't want to take any chances with it. Peppermint oil helps soothe and calm down if things are bad. I stopped psyllium seed seems to make thing more active. I will add it back once the inflammation is gone.
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