Curcumin helped my UC and IBS

I've been using 95% curcumin capsules (without pepper or bio-perine) for a couple months now with excellent results. Still playing around with capsules daily amounts plus trying out 95% powder in coco oil or boiling to get it dissolved (not in capsules) but it's been a winner for me. The bio-perine was not loved by my gut so gave that bottle to spouse.

My history with many supplements is very bad, gut disliked 90% of them. Diet was my savior and that took a long time to sort out and achieve remission.

Back to curcumin and IBS: I still had many food issues with IBS, specifically multiple BM's and many beloved foods were on the "out" list. UC was in remissionfinally with 3-4 BM's in the morning and then quiet all day/night unless a forbidden food/drink called my name then "hello IBS".

Since taking curcumin daily in 1500-3000 mg amount IBS issues have almost disappeared. Here's some of the foods/drinks I can now have that previously caused IBS: coffee (full caff), fruit! previously a big "no", ice cream (ditto), chocolate. I'm going to try shrimp and other seafood soon which has been out for a couple years. Gluten I may keep out because I actually like sticking to eating protein and veggies without pasta or bread and don't need the calories.

Also BM's are now lowered to 1-3 in the morning depending on what was eaten previous day and how much caffeine in the AM. When I started curcumin it actually worried me when BM # dropped so quickly, was afraid of constipation. I am now almost back to my "normal" BM which skewed to C in pre-UC days.

Please look up medical studies on curcumin (there are many) and decide if you want to try it. There are cautions for people on blood thinners, diabetes, bile duct disease and gallstones. Talk to your doctor and don't take curcumin if you have surgery. It's a natural product but that doesn't mean safe for everyone.

Wish I'd known about this 15 years ago but that's life.
Tonight am cooking chicken curry with turmeric. Curcumin is in turmeric in 2 to 6% amount, tasteless but bright yellow. Yummy.

Rectal meds were the only RX that ever showed me any benefit but they are just one part of remission for me and not the largest part. Diet was the largest part and no "named" diet ever did it, I just kept tinkering and (mostly) removing different food until symptoms/reactions stopped.

Urgency was the final symptom to overcome and generally linked to IBS (in my opinion) since stools were perfect at that point. Rectal meds did not really help that kind of urgency, they helped stop bleeding but once I figured out what caused bleeding (wheat products, high fiber) they weren't needed.

Curcumin came late to the game but I believe if tried it earlier might have saved years of diet tinkering. Before UC I had no food allergies/intolerances.

So in short, rectal meds did not end my 10+ year flare, diet did.

boris

Try the capsules instead of the powder (although the powder did not give me gas). There are several diff. kinds of capsules: the kind with black pepper (bio-perine), Jarrow 95 in an oil gel cap and 95% curcumin capsules (nothing else added). I take the last type from turmeric-curcumin.com, tried the first two unsuccessfully (others are having success with bio-perine).

I think capsules make it to the gut to act there whereas the powder mixed with oil is systemic which is perhaps why you felt arthritis relief. You could fill your own capsules, which are usually available at a health food store, since you already have the powder.

It is very hard for me to rec. a particular brand since having trouble with several at Amazon (not their fault really, my IBS dislikes). I get my 95% capsules from turmeric-curcumin.com (not free ship like Amazon). Do a search on this forum and you'll find what others take, I've heard Doctors Best and BCM-95 (not Jarrow 95).

For reasons I can't explain at this point (and does it really matter), this stuff >

www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-Curcumin-BioPerine-120-Count/dp/B000BD0RQS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445800701&sr=8-1&keywords=doctor%27s+best+curcumin

makes me feel like I've got a Red Bull IV hooked up 24/7 !

Seriously.