Posted 3/15/2018 3:27 AM (GMT 0)
Hello guys and girls!
My name is Marcell, I live in Brazil and I was diagnosed with moderate colitis. I'm here to get some help and see your experiences and also give some help, if I can. Though my colonoscopy couldn't find any scratches or wounds and the fact that I don't take lots of dumps along the day, nor feel constant pains, biopsies say I have moderate colitis, all along the bowel. All they could really find was a polyp on the ileum valve. The colonoscopy before this one was way worse. It showed a lot of scratches and tha same moderate colitis, but as they found the scratches, it was ulcerative colitis. It's not what's showing now. As it is a pancolitis, I almost went nuts when I found out it raises the chances of a cancer. Been sad and worried. A doctor told me to take Imussupress and deflazacort for 60 days before repeating the colonoscopy. I don't like the idea of doing that because even though they find colitis there, the bowel is shining and well. I go to poo once per day and sometimes it's all more gooey. More rarely, a diarrhea. So I don't understand how they can call this "soft" colitis a moderate one.
Then I started to research like crazy. I found this forum and saw many nice experiences. And I just found this (I won't translate the whole news, because I don't have time for it right now, but I'll tell you what's the main point:
"UFMG testa probióticos no tratamento de doenças crônicas" - UFMG (Minas Gerais Federal University) tests probiotics for the treatment of cronic diseases
It says that they modified a bacteria (Lactococcus lactis) and succeeded on treating mice with very advanced inflamation diseases. It says that one mouse that could move anymore, started to move again. The bacteria is able to produce a component that has a very high anti inflamatory power. They are still going to test it for colitis and chron.
https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/tecnologia/2014/04/28/interna_tecnologia,523077/ufmg-testa-probioticos-no-tratamento-de-doencas-cronicas.shtml
It's good that we can find some hopes in science. Especially because this treatment won't attack your defenses and won't kill you. It's just an ordinary mutated bacteria that's going to produce something that will prevent you from developing the disease or taking more urgent measure, like colectomy. That seems brilliant. I hope I can help y'all. Anything I can find in portuguese, I'll post here.
I hope you'll forgive me when I fail writing in english... it's just that I don't practice everyday.