I'm surprised to see so many SCD posts... the basics of the diet are laid out in this book: Breaking the Vicious Cycle Intestinal Health Through Diet. by Elaine Gottschall, B.A., M.Sc....
I did SCD for 9 months a couple of years ago. I treated it as a religion--just like the book tells you to--adhering to it so closely and fanatically that I ended up blindly thinking it was helping me...
I was on SCD for about 9 months, and the yogurt was probably the most beneficial thing of it for me. Here's a few tips: Use the freshest milk possible. It makes a difference. I would only yogurt-ify...
here's a nother one with an intolerance to mesamaline/sulfazaline. I was able to handle it just fine for the first few years of my UC-life, but then I changed my diet and lifestyle habits to...
if youre looking for something a little outside the city, one of peppercorn's students, dr. linn, practices at emerson hospital. It's on rt. 2, in concord. There's a cluster of a couple of good docs...
YES! they can be drastically different. Between asacol and colozal I preferred colozal --different delivery mechanism that ensures more reaches the gut. Unfortunately, generic colozal doesn't have...
it worked alright for me--i began to mix it into pudding and such--very tasty. The only downside was that my body began to require more and more of it--I could feel the UC coming back, and so I upped...
Ok, sappy mode on: I feel like I've actually gotten quite good at explaining the depths and severity of UC over the last few years of my life. I like to think that everyone you date has one or two...
oh--and get yourself registered with the schools disability office. If the school is receiving any state or federal funding I believe they have to adhere to certain rules regarding disabilities. I...
yeah, its a sucky disease. I was able to get through college ok with it, but there were rough times. I lived in a suite with three other guys the first year, and it had a sectioned off bathroom. I...
I just read an article the other day about a med in testing that linked bactiotherapy with a remicade-like immunosuppresant...in pill form. I really think there is something to this bacteria...
yup, I'm sure it wasn't a tummy bug--talked to both the pharmacist and my doc and they said that the generic form of colazal can increase risks of tummy upset-ness. I've had problems with normal...
someone once told me that the major differnence between culturelle and other bactera supplements (primaldefence, vsl3) was that it had a better delivery mechanism. More of the bacgteria was able to...
ick..generic colazal ruined my weekend! got a prescription filled on thursday, took the pills on friday. by friday afternoon i was stuck in bad, super nauseous. Vomited brilliant yellow vomit all...
there IS an (indirect) relationship to UC, sort of. those on the SCD diet have been following the colony collapse issue for months now: bees are the primary pollinators for 90% of the almonds out...
for me, any alcohol is a no no. pain/symptoms, usually within 30 mins to an hour. beer wasnt as bad as mixed, sugary drinks, but still sucked. Alcohol has provoked an all out flare for me before...
creatine always did me in...and i jhad mixed results with whey... the best/easiest on the belly, thing I tried was straight eggwhites post-workout. Boil 5-6 eggs, toss away the yolks, (or maybe save...
true, it does take over a year in some cases--but Elaine (the diet's founder) has said that if you dont see SOME improvement in the first few months, then the diet probably isn't going to work for...
well, initial colonoscopy results were poor for me. it seems that a lot of my colon is still inflamed. I've been on SCD for about 10.5 months, and I'm thinking it's about time for me to call it...
ive been doing SCD for almost 11 months now. I go in TODAY for a scope to see how it's helped or now. I do FEEL better....but nothing is formed and there is still energy.I think its just improved my...
on a strange and somewhat related note--apparently theres a theory running around that beethoven died from UC or crohns. well, not directly, but from lead poisoning that derived from lead poultices...
the stains from colozal and rowasa stuff can be cleaned off the porcelain if you get at them immediately.. I've made it a habit just to wash off the toilet seat after every time I go....
should be.... I used to mix the VSL with chocolate pudding. Then, to make the texture a little less noticable I would mix in a few chocolate chips. It made for a great snack!...
PEPPERCORN! that was my doc's teacher, i think.. at least, it sounds really familar...apparently hes like one of the leading doctors for UC in the world. I dont know what BIDMC is, im guessing a...
"Yesterday was the first day I only had one bm, not a good one and it seemed like all day things just build and build (gas and stool) this morning I pooped for 1/2 hour just piles of poo. Why? This...
good luck!! be sure to give us updates!...
oh yeah--dont stop taking the colozal until the doc says to....
to be honest, exactly how i felt about asacol. if you imagine me as being in permanent mild flare, asacol and colozal both only 'slow' my return to flare status after ive spent time with prednizone....
i do! Im not sure if they were related to the prednizone, but now im off pred completely. for a few weeks I'd get them 2-3 times a week--it felt as if i'd slept too long, stared at a monitor all day,...
wait...ive been on colozal, 4 pills 3 times a day for nearly a year now....are you guys talking about some other form of colozal? Was it more common to only be on it for two months?...
cfro---I checked some of your other posts...you seem pretty adamant about this cure...which is hopeful. If you cant tell us what it is, can you tell us HOW you know? were you part of a clinical...
could this be what your friend was referring to, fosterdad? http://www.lifesciencesworld.com/news/view/38531...
i too am not getting my hopes up that the cure is coming to us THIS soon.... my GI did tell me not long ago that he was confident a cure was coming in anywhere from 3 to 30 years--but it WILL be in...
yep, i retained it all night each time. I administered the rowasa and didn't 'expell' anything until the next morning. I would get cramps throughout the day--but mostly in the morning. by nighttime i...
...so I was tapering from steroids and things were going well, but i've had problems in the past tapering, and so my doc gave me a prescription of rowasa to have around just in case. normally I'm on...