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Posted 5/14/2013 4:50 PM (GMT 0)
"alright, i've thought it over -

i'm gettin a colon transplant from a horse or cow - they have great smelling dumps !"

Nah those are weak colons. Get one from a pig, it's closer to us and man...with that thing, you can eat a triple cheese meat lover pizza and the cardboard box it came in and feel no issues.
Posted 5/14/2013 4:51 PM (GMT 0)
I have two young kids and a husband. I think it'd be pretty selfish of me to risk a bone marrow transplant when it's not something I need to do to save my life. If I had leukemia or something that was going to kill me if I didn't have the bone marrow transplant, then yes, I would do it. But at this point, with the risks as great as they are, there's no way I'd try to cure my UC that way.
Posted 5/14/2013 4:54 PM (GMT 0)
And get this - if you have a bone marrow transplant I think you have to take anti-rejection meds for the rest of your life - like prednisone. <<evil laugh>>
Posted 5/14/2013 4:56 PM (GMT 0)
"I have two young kids and a husband. I think it'd be pretty selfish of me to risk a bone marrow transplant when it's not something I need to do to save my life. If I had leukemia or something that was going to kill me if I didn't have the bone marrow transplant, then yes, I would do it. But at this point, with the risks as great as they are, there's no way I'd try to cure my UC that way."

Oh no, not you. You are doing great. I was thinking for extreme cases.
Posted 5/14/2013 4:59 PM (GMT 0)
"And get this - if you have a bone marrow transplant I think you have to take anti-rejection meds for the rest of your life - like prednisone. <<evil laugh>>"

what? I dunno about that. But I can't refute your statement.
Posted 5/14/2013 4:59 PM (GMT 0)
I'm talking if my remission ends and I've tried all of the treatment options -- it would be easy for me to pick surgery, even with an ostomy, over a BMT, with the current risks associated with BMT.
Posted 5/14/2013 5:02 PM (GMT 0)
Hmm, you guys seem interested in this BMT. I'll do more research on it and post a new topic. I think you might be amazed at the stuff related to it.
Posted 5/14/2013 5:04 PM (GMT 0)
or the head cases :-)
Posted 5/14/2013 5:30 PM (GMT 0)
soystud, what's that mean?
Posted 5/14/2013 7:48 PM (GMT 0)
soystud, getting a colon transplant won't do you any good, regardless of what/who it's from because your immune system will simply attack your new colon anyways...

Andrina, it's not just hormones, if it were that easy then they'd be able to cure us, hormones is one of many environmental triggers that plays a role in the development of IBD.
Posted 5/14/2013 7:54 PM (GMT 0)
"it's from because your immune system will simply attack your new colon anyways..."

ya, well, i don't buy that outa whack immune system theory - i think my digestive system is outa whack and my immune system is just doing it's job -
Posted 5/14/2013 8:00 PM (GMT 0)
"ya, well, i don't buy that outa whack immune system theory - i think my digestive system is outa whack and my immune system is just doing it's job -"

I dunno, it could be the immune system is out of whack and it's attacking natural occuring stuff in the colon.

However, it could also be like you said that the digestive system is out of whack and immune system is doing it's job.


The issue is, if it's the latter, all the drugs people take, well they take them for nothing. Why would you take a drug to suppress the immune system when you acutally need a drug to fix the digestive issue.

All research I would think points to a defective immune system, all the drugs are based on that, well, at least the strong ones.
Posted 5/14/2013 10:14 PM (GMT 0)
Digestive organ transplants are happening - here's a story of a pioneering op for Crohn's
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/crohns-disease-sufferer-been-given-1842185
Posted 5/15/2013 1:02 AM (GMT 0)
"He said: “I walk round Lossiemouth every day, when I could hardly walk 30 feet before."

there ya are - i'll take mine to go please !
Posted 5/15/2013 3:13 AM (GMT 0)
You don't have to "buy it" there's already proof of it soystud when they did a colon transplant on a crohn's patient...their CD came back within 5 yrs of the transplant. Clearly it's the immune system functioning improperly and specifically attacking the intestines, not the intestines attacking themselves.
Posted 5/15/2013 3:24 AM (GMT 0)
I didn't get UC until my son was 14! I'd had a second pregnancy (miscarriage) , a divorce, remarriage, lost a job, moved a few times, all with no UC.

Then I ate some shrimp during Lent two years ago, and... Ta da!
Posted 5/17/2013 3:43 AM (GMT 0)
A new study shows that pregnancy alters microbe populations in the gut. The interactions with these microbes cause metabolic changes that likely help the pregnant mother and developing baby.

http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/august2012/08202012pregnancy.htm

What about bodybuilding and colitis? If you type that into google you see results but how do you know if there is a real link.
Posted 5/17/2013 8:53 AM (GMT 0)

Rick123123 said...
A new study shows that pregnancy alters microbe populations in the gut. The interactions with these microbes cause metabolic changes that likely help the pregnant mother and developing baby.

http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/august2012/08202012pregnancy.htm

What about bodybuilding and colitis? If you type that into google you see results but how do you know if there is a real link.

Excellent study. It makes sense from that, that if there was already vulnerability there, pregnancy could really kick start colitis.
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