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Posted 4/10/2011 7:45 PM (GMT 0)
Those of you that use a quality probiotic to replenish the good flora in your stomach/intestines, how long do you need to take the probiotics until your flora is replenished?
At what point can you stop taking probiotics and let them multiply themselves, or is it that once you reach a certain age you will always need to take a probiotic?
Does prednisone or Asacol or Lialda or 6MP or Imuran do any damage to your good digestive flora?

Does 6mp or Imuran help with joint pain as well as treat UC?

Has anyone tried taking grapefruit seed extract or oil to "cure" UC?
If so, what was your results? How much oil would you use?

Constantly tired all the time, and blowing up like a balloon on the prednisone.
When your off the pred do you start to not be so darn tired?
And will all the fat in the neck, face and stomach start to go away? (is it not fat but fluid)?

Researched causes of UC: stress, bacteria, virus, lack of worms, yeast, rubbing compounds in toothpaste, quit smoking, food poisoning/contamination,genes.

UC January 2011
Taking: probiotic, vitamins, fish oil, Flax oil
Meds: prednisone 40mg start, currently at 25mg, (2) Lialda tablets at night. started with 8 weeks of Asacol HD and pred taper only to flare when pred under 25mg. then back to 30mg. (have not achieved remission as of yet).
Naturopathic doctor told me my UC was from a yeast build up and I need to kill the yeast with grapefruit seed oil to cure the UC.
GI doctor waiting to see if Prednisone taper will put me in remission and Lialda will keep me there, otherwise Imuran is up next.
Posted 4/10/2011 8:10 PM (GMT 0)
All the probiotics but mutiflor are lactic acid bacteria(yogurt cultures) and they do not permanently recolonize the gut. You need to take them forever. They are thought to make the gut healthier for the various permanent residents that you have there. I don't think the 5ASAs(asacol lialda) harm intestinal bacteria.

Nothing is really clear with UC but controlling gut inflammation can control joint inflammation. Some of the drugs(immune suppressants) treat both.
Posted 4/10/2011 8:38 PM (GMT 0)
Has anyone tried taking grapefruit seed extract or oil to "cure" UC?

Yes I did years ago. Nothing positive to report from that. I used the extract not the oil.

Does prednisone or Asacol or Lialda or 6MP or Imuran do any damage to your good digestive flora?

I don't think so. Good gut biotics should only be harmed by "antibiotics" that target all biotics, the good and the bad.

I agree with AZY that the probiotics do not permanently recolonize the way we are ingesting them. There is talk that fecal transplantation is the way to re-colonize permanently. I expect when I am a year or two into my current remission I will cut down on probiotics and don't expect to take them forever.
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