Blood is down and mucus is up.... am I healing?

Hi :) I was diagnosed with UC about a month ago. No pain or nausea, just a frequent urge to go, LOTS of blood, and lots of diarrhea. I was against the typical medicine so I started the SCD diet 4 weeks ago and started taking fish oil, probiotics, L-Glutimine, Turmeric, aloe vera gel, etc. Now, I am only going 1-2 times a day and the stool is formed with only a small amount of blood and mucus. However, when I pee, little musuc pebbles slip out (gross, I know)... they are clearish-yellow with a tint of pink (blood). Does this mean I'm getting better? I know it's a slow process but geesh..... thank you for any advice :)

No, the doctor recommended Uceris, which I am taking, and steroids, which I did not want to take. Taking alot of natural anti-inflammatories which will do the same thing as synthetic steroids

Thank you. Have you ever tried Uceris? Everything I have read says it doesnt work so I was hoping it was all the other things I'm doing that are working. I have heard of wonderful sucess stories and life-long remission proven with the SCD diet and supplements. Not every bout of colitis (ie inflammation) is chronic I've been told. Hopefully once I get rid of this it will be gone for good :) If not, I will see about getting on a maintenance medication.

Thank you :) atleast I know I'm getting better. I was thinking of stopping the uceris now and seeing what happens, instead of staying on it, and everything else, for 4 more weeks. What do you think?

UC is a chronic lifelong disease with periods of flares and periods of remissions. Regular Colitis is not UC and is not usually chronic. There is a huge difference between the two. If you have UC your condition is chronic, requiring continuous treatment of some sort, forever. I don't want this to sound mean but you seem to do a lot of selective reading. Uceris does work in some people so it is not true that everything says it does not work. The SCD diet does work in some select individuals. "Wonderful success stories and life-long remission proven with the SCD diet and supplements" only happens to some. There are approximately 500,000 cases of UC in the US and there may be a couple of hundred success stories about SCD and UC, leaving approximately 499,000 cases where the SCD diet will probably not work. Uceris is only prescribed for 8 weeks. Why don't you do it for the whole 8 weeks and then go off and then see how you do without it?

I was just going by the fact you said you were diagnosed with UC. UC is IBD colitis, not non-IBD colitis. If you have regular colitis diet has a better chance of being effective and less chance if you have UC.

Unfortunately my answer to that is no. I was diagnosed with definite UC and I have never had any pain, nausea or many of the other symptoms of UC. I did have blood from the UC ulcers in the very beginning but it went away after taking the 5ASA meds as did my diarrhea. My normal symptoms are frequency and occasional urgency and usually always have formed stools with no blood. I have been doing much better recently, mostly due to my first round of pred and Canasa. Non IBD colitis usually also needs treatment of some sort (usually certain antibiotics) to get over it but it is often not a chronic disease like UC is. Non IBD colitis is usually bacterial in nature whereas UC is an autoimmune disease. While diet can improve UC it usually will not put it into remission as gastro problems with UC are not the cause of the UC but the result of having UC. Diets would probably be much more effective with non IBD colitis.