Fecal Transplant update

Hello!

I am not sure if anyone will recall, but I had a Fecal Transplant via colonoscopy on June 13, 2011. At the time I had severe pan-colitis with doctors recommending biologic or surgery.

Since then I have been in remission. I had a colonoscopy a few months a go and my colon is in pristine condition with zero signs of inflammation. I have no symptoms and I am not taking any maintenance medications.

I share this in the hopes that others can find practitioners to help treat them.

If you have any questions about my process, I have an old thread on here called Fecal Transplant via colonoscopy or you can email me.

Hope that you all have a happy holiday season.

Be well,
Stacy

sounds like you had infectious colitis misdiagnosed as UC. FMT never fixes UC in one treatment.

I would do some maintenance program - even if it is only anti-inflammatory foods and supps.

Feels so happy to read your post still keeping remission after 2011 FT. Gives me hope about DD. Assume you discontinued the maintanance meds per GI's approval..

Hope others too consider FT !!

Wishes to continue long lasting remission!!

Great! so you only did the FMT the once? - if so that's amazing - I have done FMT a couple of times and I really believe it helped me. My stool literally changed overnight, from awful, to okay the next day, and then to looking good the following day, and it just continued, it's weird to see such a big difference so quick. I wish more people would give it a go.

Like the others said, what are you doing to maintain this remission, are you taking good supplements?

DBwithUC said...
sounds like you had infectious colitis misdiagnosed as UC. FMT never fixes UC in one treatment.

and yet ...................

Wow Stacy, I remember you!! So glad you are still in remission. Hope it continues indefinitely!!
B

Thanks for the support!

Hi

I am so pleased to read that people are having success with this treatment.

I haven't been on the site for a while as my health has been good. I was diagnosed with UC about 10 years ago, which flared terribly midway through my third pregnancy. I was hospitalised for ten days on IV steroids, but was unable to stay well after being discharged.

In desperation, with the support of my specialist, I tried FMT at home using my husband as a donor. The treatments definitely helped, but my symptoms would return when I stopped doing the transplants. After the birth of my daughter, my symptoms disappeared completely for a year or so. Since then, symptoms have been variable, but generally manageable. about 12 months ago, things were getting pretty bad again, and I was heading towards requiring hospitalisation again. I decided to do a transplant using my daughters stool. Two treatments, and I've been symptom free for 12 months. My last colonoscopy declared me to be in endoscopic remission, and my specialist is totally impressed

I encourage those of you interested in attempting this treatment to use a family member if possible. Whilst I had a positive response using my husbands stool, it has been much more significant with my daughter as a donor.

I am not using any other treatments, and haven't for a few years.
Happy to share if anyone has any questions.

Be well!