MD's personal experience of fecal transplant

Wow. What an interesting review. A doctor (internist) who has what we have and like us (me) did not respond to medication. When offered stronger drugs he declined because he knew about the side effects.

Says a lot when an MD can't be cured with the best current medical protocol and has to go outside the lines for a cure (like me and others). Even with FT plus SCD it took him a year to recover. This is what I have read about UC and diet modification in other books. Up to a year to full remission. I'm half-way there.

Thanks for the post.

That is an amazing story. thanks for that link. It somewhat irritates me that this fecal treatment idea isn't even acknowledge in main stream medicine in the US that I know of.

My daughter's D levels are checked by her GI with her regular bloodwork. In Canada you can request on through your GP - my brother had his levels tested recently as well.

When blood is tested to assess vitamin D status, what is actually measured is the metabolically active 25-hydroxyvitamin D form of the vitamin in the blood serum.

Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) is considered more natural and is what is produced by your body when exposed to sunlight. D2 is what is added to foods such as milk and is not quite as easily assimilated by the body.

Don’t worry about the different kinds of tests or what your D2 or D3 levels are, the name of the game is to get 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels to the optimal range, between 40 and 60 ng/mL. Get it measured during your next blood work or cholesterol test. Vitamin D is one of the few vitamins where it is possible to overdose. But with regular monitoring you will most likely find that your have to supplement regularly to keep your blood levels up, especially after a long winter indoors away from the sunlight.

I get tested by LabCorp for about $35.00. If you have insurance your doctor will probably prescribe a test thru Quest Diagnostics for about the same price. Quest Diagnostics needs to clean up their procedures for measuring Vitamin D. Quest's numbers are usually too high. For example a reading of 40 from LabCorp, ARUP, or Clinical Pathology will show up in a Quest reading of about 48 or so.

I am not a doctor, and don't have the right to contradict one, but Dr. Zaidi's 10,000 IU of vitamin D may be in the range that will eventually produce an overdose, which can cause problems. Testing your blood levels is important.

Interesting that Flagyl was ineffective for him while Flagyl was what jump started my remission. Everyone IS different.

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Actually, recent research shows that darker skinned immigrants in the West have a disproportionately higher rate of IBD. In Canada they have found that Somali kids are presenting with very high rates of autism. They believe in both cases it's partially related to Vitamin D. The Canadian government is about to significantly increase it's recommended D levels as a result of the very high rates of AI disease there.