Another day another successful remission with F-Factor

Mebeverine arrived in the mail today. It was expensive so I am going to hold it in reserve.

I stopped taking imodium and I think I took 2 sulfasalazine and 1 librax this morning.

No BM until afternoon and saw 1% blood so I definitely was jacked up.

Cooking cabbage again with chicken, taking enzymes, wallaby yogurt and gluten free bread.

I think other sufferers here should try this regime and report back if its bogus or helpful. I keep intending to eat canned spinach because I know it helps but I am distracted and do not.

Not sure I understand.

Previously a flare was so bad I was in the ICU with a stroke from high dose prednisone. THAT flare had evil cramps that plagued my mornings. I would lie on the floor writhing in pain for 2 hours.

This flare was crampy anytime the urgency came which was hourly or anytime I swallowed food.

The past 2 days I do not feel I even have UC and posted pics to demonstrate my level of health because a flare normally results in me losing 50 lbs of muscle and being skin and bones plus my voice changes on high does prednisone.

Here is my best effort sticking my chest out and everything.

www.bmanandcgirl.com/me/bman_best_effort_1.jpg

Once a flare goes full throttle I am just skin and bones.

Can you also give us a link to the enzyme you are using?

StealthGuardian said...
A couple questions:

Are you still on prednisone?
The bar comes in two flavors. Which one do you think worked better?

100mg prednisone contributed to a stroke in 2010 - Sagittal sinus thrombosis.

I was paralyzyed on the right side and in the ICU which cost me $64,000 so I will never take prednisone again. Its simply a matter of survival.

I recovered 150% and the only thing I cannot remember are my former limitations.

Prednisone can jump start you out of a flare very quickly so I do not mean to say nobody should take it. However take it for the full duration or the flare will come back later in the year and prednisone wont help you. Your body makes 8 mg of prednisone ( coritisol ) per day, you can chop from 100 to 50 or from 30 to 15 but when you get near 8 you need to cut the pills with a razor and ride the brakes. I have had adrenal shock from trying to get off too quickly. It causes me to lose 50 lbs of muscle - I hate it. Everyday you can see people here asking for help because below 10mg their symptoms returned. That is is the simple reason why, abrupt chop below the 8 mg line, let the body ramp up its own production by descending slowly.

I do not think either flavor matters. I know that chocolate goes well with a bit of coffee. Coffee has some health benefits but is generally bad for UC so I think 1/3 cup with a bar is wonderfully balanced and I enjoy it.

The apple flavor does not go well with anything I can think of. It is a nice change from the chocolate. Its like owning both a snowboard and downhill ski's to keep the game exciting.

Try 1/4 of the bar and a full glass of water. Do not take any more until you see how your body reacted. For me its all good and I finally regenerated enough healthy bacteria that I began to get a little gas so I am reduced now to 1/4 bar per day. Imodium is removed. Librax is taken only if I remember.

I also continue to sautee cabbage in olive oil with chopped chicken or steak in low sugar spaghetti sauce and my daughter and I love making it and eating it.

I am still taking 1 VSL#3DS per day with wallaby yogurt. I take curcumin for UC and as a blood thinner. I take a multi-vitamin. I can drink a bottle of tequilla every night and this regimen continues to improve me.

This is the new enzyme formulation I am taking when I remember before meals.

pureformulas.com/digestmore-135-capsules-by-renew-life.html

I really hope this helps others, I have remedies that beat flares but nothing has worked this fast in my life.

To be sure I could keep working, stay healthy I went gluten-free. Someone pointed out the bars have wheat. But I no longer eat 5 loaves of bread per week because who knows, maybe I am temporarily gluten-sensitive in the way we become lactose-sensitive during flares.

Stacking the odds in my favor.

Ok so im desperate here as well, heck i would do anything right now to avoid pred...even drink cow pee if thats gonna help.
Just checking i got things right, this is what you use:
1) F-factor bars
2) Digest more by renew life
3) ? Gluten free diet?
4) ? Would you say sulphasalazine helped as well

Btw that pic looked impressive: good on you for being motivated and working out!

Wow aguywithUC I'm so happy for you! I ordered some bars as well and fiber usually tears me up, but I'm going to start slow and see how I do.

You've been through a lot! You're pic is awesome! I work out but you wouldn't be able to tell! LOL

Keep us posted please!

Hi How are you doing today aguywithuc? JW I will have my bars tomorrow.

Wow you are busy and my gosh I don't know if I had a job like yours I could do it with my conditon of UC! I give you so much credit! But guess what is positive for me? I couldn't even walk outside last year, then I was on pred for two month and was completely miserable and didn't live the house but to go to work and now, I'm walking 5-6 miles every night outside, no pooping problems! My girlfriend is doing the 60 mile walk for breast cancer and I'm just training with her and I'm so happy I'm able to just walk outside! I know I'm getting better. I start on very, very very little psyllium hulls two days ago just to get a little more fiber in me.

Crazy thing for me is on vacation I ate homemade wheat toast in the am and I didn't have diareeah all day and if I don't eat bread I have diarreah. Like the bread is soaking up the D for me. I was gluten intolerate on my allergy testing I was yeast intolerate. We are all so different.

Did you ever try the combo antibiotic therapy? I did, didn't work but it sure helped my mental state believe it or not. I have Lymes' too. Did you ever get tested for that? I'm for MI and they say "couldn't happen here really" well I've traveled alot and it does happen.

You are an inspiration for me, working out. Can you do protein shakes? I can't, they all make me poo, bad! I take EBOOST every day, have you tried this? I love them! They are way better than Emergen-C. I hope you turn around really soon and get back on track. I think too you were eating no sugar and no yeast, I think that's the ticket to getting reduced UC symptoms without a doubt.

GOD Bless you for working so hard for you company and on your family. My job is and I'm so thankful, easy, easy easy and I can sleep here all day if I want. I couldn't handle a normal job, I use to before UC but not now. Keep us updated please. I will get my bars tomorrow as I said, go slowly and we'll see how that works. I also like by GOODLIFE, a sunflower bar I think it's called. Maybe with sunflower seeds. No gluten, dairy, caisen, soy, egg and they are good for snacking.

therearemiracles said...
Can you do protein shakes? I can't, they all make me poo, bad!

Sounds like you have your own hell your going thru. The prednisone induced stroke and paralysis was such a shocker, thats why I went for it and sold my house after extreme alimony ended and built a huge new house. I have a second chance at life and raising my daughter so I am not wasting it. My mortgage doubled but I am not paying alimony so why not ? Love the stone kitchen high ceilings and walk-in pantry for all my UC junk.

HOA here is really uptight every single thing had to be rolled back and approved, chucked the old trampoline and had to buy an in-ground tramp kit for 1500 plus the labor to landscape crew. But we finished the backyard now with 5 English Oaks so its finally good for my daughter, the house swallows the lot so the backyard is not huge.

www.bmanandcgirl.com/images/IngroundTramp.jpg

It also sounds like your also doing a lot better and feeling thankful. What you should try is a terrific plant based protein I always find helpful, Pure Green Protein with spirulina.

Today was a good day, after energy drink I had one bm, then worked all day including heavy lifting at gym downtown then after dinner had a 2nd well formed bm.

I think one FULL bar of F-Factor is the right amount for me, but I was so busy today I totally forgot to take any librax or suflasalazine or immodium.

F-Factor is the key for me, labs came back good all the way around, see my doc for 1st time in 2 years next week.

StealthGuardian said...
So would you say that, on average, you have 2 bms a day w/ f-factor now? I got the bars today and took 3/4 throughout the day. Will keep you updated on whether it helps me or not.

Please be sure to drink a full glass of water ( sipping not gulping as that cascades the wave of contraction down the GI tract ).

Normally I produce high quality bm's each morning upon consuming a stimulant drink. When I drive myself to the hospital its because I am over 24 bm's per day.

So with F-Factor I would say 1-2 is what I expect because after all I am in a flare, it was bloody and I reigned it in. Yesterday was a 6-pack because the food choice was just stupid and I only had 1/4 bar. Maybe the flare originates from the immune system but I know 100% I can regulate it with the food I choose to intake. I cannot say that about the meds but I am trying to remember to take them too they just pale in comparison.

So for me if I have quality sleep ( waking to have a BM is the worst sign you can have that your DEEP in a flare ) that seems restful, and I can workout I do not care if I have 1,2 or 3 bm's until the flare is resolved as long as they are 'quality' bm's. You know what I mean regarding quality when you dehydrate during a flare the bm's become so acidic they have to be wrecking your gut lining. So if they are smooth and easy and organized I see that as positive and the count is not a problem if its under 4 - over 4 means your having urgency and the bowel wants to expel the matter. So reduce the acidity, increase the fiber with F-Factor and drink drink drink water.

Hi aguywithuc, I thought I was ordering one box of the apple, I got 6 boxes in the one box so becareful peeps and read.

I just ate a 1/4 of the bar and I'm sipping on mint tea. I hope something works for me!

Any suggestions? Just start with a 1/4 for today and work up from there?

Thanks :)

I forgot, you start taking the bar for breakfast with your coffee and then chew some during the day, is that right? I will have to look up mebeverine and libarax what that is? I never heard of either.

aguywithuc, here it looks like they have three flavors:

www6.netrition.com/f_factor_bars.html