Qing Dai stool color

Stools are definitely darker than usual but not so much blue. I've noticed sometimes stools appear black, but I think that's from IC. When it's not in my system stools are normal color, no blood ever, so it's not like it's covering up any bleeding. I highly doubt it would dye the intestinal tract but only time will tell.

Hopefully it does Lover of Life. I still have intermittent pain, a reminder that I still have a disease, but I'm almost completely normal months later. Keep us posted with your progress.

In the beginning I had green poop. Kind of alarming at first but it went away after a week or two.

iPoop said...
Pain isn't good, might be a sign of a flare and axtive inflammation? Maybe restart your lialda?

Lialda never did anything for the pain either. All it did was keep my flare from getting to the point where I didn't end up in the hospital. As for pain and bleeding it did nothing, yet they kept insisting I stay on it. I took more and kept getting worse. Since I started taking alternatives I've had zero bleeding, with mild occasional pain, vs constant bleeding and constant pain on Lialda. Surely, lialda wouldn't hurt, but given that this alternative has done more for my inflammation than any other medication, I have to assume that adding additional alternatives will take care of the rest of it. There is no clear answer what those alternatives will be and it will take time to work it out. Either way, the pain continues to decrease with time.

There is no one size fits all for this disease, the same goes for western meds, otherwise there wouldn't be so many on here reporting that they're still getting worse after moving to more aggressive meds (or alternatives for that matter).

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Scarecrow said...
In the beginning I had green poop. Kind of alarming at first but it went away after a week or two.

Wow, I wonder how the color began getting absorbed? this is really interesting.....

Scarecrow, my dream is to be med free like you are now. I have psyllium husk here also that I am going to try instead of benefiber. And also have some of the CC Herbals.....just trying to get confident enough to leap.

I am not feeling confident enough yet as it took quite awhile to get into symptomatic remission this time around. How long were you symptom free on meds before you took the jump? thanks!

Edit: Also, how many caps do you take of the CC and what is your dosing schedule like?

I was doing well with Remicade for 2 years but developed antibodies to it. That was about 2009. My doctor wanted to put me on Humira but my insurance would not pay for it and I couldn't afford it. So my condition got worse and it was looking like surgery was my only option.

I have been taking 3 capsules of CCherbal per day (morning, afternoon, bedtime) since ~2010. At the time the only medication I was on was Asacol. Give it time, it takes months for your colon to regenerate itself with new tissue so you might bounce from good days and bad days for a while.

I started psyllium seed powder (2 big tsp per day) after a year of remission and it took me about a month to get used to that. I should have started out slowly. I also mix 1 part Metamucil t6 3 parts seed powder to improve the taste. The seed powder by itself is awful!