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I stopped eating anything with aspartame and I seem to have gone into remission

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Posted 5/16/2011 10:55 PM (GMT 0)
I was dx about 18 months ago with UC. It never got better so my doctor had me on 4 lialda a day. I went away on a cruise for 10 days a few months ago and it got bettter and i couldnt figure out why. The day after i got home it got worse. So i went on SCD for a month and it got worse and worse. So I thought hard and realized i stopped diet coke on the cruise and when i got home i started sucking on nicorete lozenges. I looked at the ingredients in diet coke and the lozenges. BOTH have aspartame. I stopped SCD and diet cokes and those lozenges about 5 days ago and i cut my lialda in half to 2 pills a day (cause a side effect of lialda is loose stoools) and the last 48 hours i've had 2 BM's and both were normal. No more blood,mucus, or pain! This is absolutely unbeleivable for me. This is the first normal stool I've had in almost 2 years.

Good luck everyone. I pray this remission holds.

 

Posted 5/16/2011 11:22 PM (GMT 0)
That's great that you're feeling so well. How can you be sure this is from cutting out aspertame and not from the Lialda? I don't consume products with aspertame and I still flare up. I hope this diet continues to help you!
Posted 5/17/2011 12:29 AM (GMT 0)
!!! That is great news. Continue to remove other non natural substances from your diet and I assure you, you will keep feeling better and better. Congrats on solving the mystery!
Posted 5/17/2011 12:38 AM (GMT 0)
I think things take more than a couple days to see how they play out. I'm doing natural supplements and watching my diet, and things go back and forth. This disease isn't cured in a day. Good luck though, I hope the good health continues!
Posted 5/17/2011 1:24 AM (GMT 0)
i stopped aspartame a long time ago too. and i try not to eat anything with artificial favors or colors like red dye 40 ....soda i dont do either...im glad to here u are feeling better too....its a nice feeling!
Posted 5/17/2011 3:06 AM (GMT 0)
I don't think it is aspartame unless it is YOUR body and aspartame.

I have a 10 yr old child who ingests no aspartame, no soda and eats pretty darn healthy and we are not cured!

It seems that different things work for different people and no one idea works for most.

Good luck in staying healthy and feeling good :)
Posted 5/17/2011 12:21 PM (GMT 0)
 

I stopped aspartame about 3 years ago because I had headaches.  Stopping it helped the headaches but didn't do much for my UC.

 

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