Success with Vitamin C

This is normally the time of the year when I would have my flares, but not this year.

I have been taking 3-5g of vitamin C daily, which is quite high. I take some in the morning, some in the afternoon and some in the evening, so not all at once. The pills I am taking are some kind of slowly absorbing pills spreading the dose over a longer time.

After almost a month of extra vitamin C, I have "poop sausages", which is something I normally do not see unless I have been taking Prednison or Flagyl. I definitely react positively to Vitamin C. It looks like the poop is getting more stable for each day passing.

This is just for information and if you take this amount, you take far above the recommended daily dose, and I take no responsibility if it causes problem for you. So use this information at own risk.

Post Edited (engblom) : 4/22/2016 11:09:00 AM (GMT-6)

I am supposed to use Pentasa, but I have not been taking my pills as somehow they make me more tired. I have Pentasa at home that I could take if I feel that things begins to go into the wrong direction.

Currently I am only avoiding food I know would give me a flare. Like this I sometimes get a flare because of small cheating with the diet, but most of the time I manage with just a bit of loose stool without bleeding. The only supplements I am using, besides these bigger doses of vitamin C, are normal doses of B12, D and some kelp for iodine.

Except during short times of Flagyl usage or Prednison usage, I have not had reoccurring firm stool until I begun with Vitamin C. The latest week, my stools has just been getting more firm for each day.

This is nice as last year I had a terrible flare during this time of the year and I ended up on Prednison until the end of the summer.

Post Edited (engblom) : 4/22/2016 11:09:30 AM (GMT-6)

I begun with effervescent vitamin C (different brands). They have the problem that they often contain laxative sweeteners. Then I bought for test some liposomal vitamin C made by Livon Labs. Then I tried making own liposomal vitamin C with an ultra sound machine. The latest two weeks I have used some vitamin C pills that claims to be long time efficient. If it is really true or not, I do not know.

During all the time I have been taking vitamin C, I have not noticed any difference between whatever brand I am using or whatever form I have been taking them in. During all the 2 months I have been on vitamin C, I have slowly been improving all the time. It has not been a miracle medicine, making me well the same day I begun taking vitamin C, but for each week that passed I could see I was better.

If you take a huge dose of vitamin C once a day, most of it will be lost as the body can not absorb it. That is why I take my vitamin C several times a day, spreading out the absorption over a longer time.