Hi all and a special note to Christine1946, sorry i never posted earlier but been busy doing other things. I went to lourdes around 85 time not long after live-aid Bob geldoff and the crew,anyhow...
Please expand on you confusment and What ? ROB...
Hi all and hope you are well, a week or two ago I posted about my experience with pineapple and asked for someone to test it. With not seeing in big capital letters on this board that is was a...
Sorry guys and girls, my post was more of an apology but i don't think i expressed, or explained it very well. I will still sit on the sidelines though as i have posted, nothing personal , i would...
"Many people have strong adverse reactions to folks that come on the forum throwing around the word "cure" and getting on their soapbox. Antagonizing a moderator is also not particularly helpful to...
Sorry and i dont want to antagonise but that wasnt my question it was just a yes or no answer that all ROB...
Generally i cut up a whole one and cut it into four pieces, then one piece is divided up by how many meals you have, normaly around 3-4, you have to cut out the stalk that runs through the middle as...
Qvist , exactly the answer is to come, this is it...... Judy has just confirmed my point, she did not answer, no offence judy, the answer i was looking for was a promt yes. I could have elaborated on...
UCW, thanks for the response, good to hear you are on top. While i was in search of my holy grail i came across an article regarding the tuberculosis bug and how this could be a related cause of...
Ucwarrior, I fully understand the view on sterroids and i did say that there was more to them, my aim was that sterroids as a whole do speed up the healing process amongst other things,not wanting to...
The body is reacting to something, the stomach has a reaction if it is not suited, you vomit, i think, in UC, its all relevant, in all the time i was ill i was never polled as to my lifestyle and...
Thank you all for the little bit of debate. Before i became ill i was heavily into keep fit and weight traing,because of my hobbies i was always looking at my diet and learned from many books and...
Judy, I was chronic for 5 years and bled almost every day, i walked out of the hospital in tears before i had my last treatment and vowed i would not go back, the next step for me was surgery and i...
Judilyn and i quote "Just to remind members, the only cure for UC at this time is surgery. Don't let yourself be fooled by people claiming to have "cures." At the end of their rainbows is often an...
Hi again all, last week i posted for the first time about my experience and how i became well again, it was brief but it seems as though no one has realy replied and this to me is a concern because...
Is this period to be examined a regular timescale because at the height of my problems i was getting an endoscopy around 3 times a year and was classed as chronic throughout my illness, as for...
RED, my aquarium was a reef, there were very few fish bit lots of corals and shrimps, the USA, if that were you are, was the leader in the marine aquarium field and i used to get the marine monthly...
baby forgot to mention,the steroid foam did work for me albeit that i did still bleed a little but the inflamation and the feeling of passing boulders did subside, check up to see what effect the...
Hi baby, I have used the foam in the past and would think there is alot who suffer from UC who have also. The reason for the foam and its positioning to the rear is the foam and whatever it contains...
Hi all, wow! never thought my thread would woo so many, i totaly understand alot of post and how animals/cats, etc.. are benificial to UC sufferers as they bring so much comfort and are good for...
Sara, the origonal post was not a reference to a link, it was a question that i followed up with some backgroung,I had cats and an aquarium and learned a few things about both thats all. On my...
I suppose its one way of trying, but they are not that bad, could you catch a mouse ? UB checkout the post on Phage medicine...
Quincy, read the article but no mention of Phage medicine or have i missed it, however what does spring to my mind is Biosyn (Acidophilus) its a bacteria mixture providing 40 million viable human...
Over in the UK there was a documentry about Phage medicine (sounds like fa-age). This was practiced in Georgia Russia and it was derived through raw sewage, yes raw sewage, apparantly it had many...
A more natural method for constipation is pears, but be careful as to much can make you too loose, a rule of thumb is to have some late at night around 8 ish and see what results you have. You can be...
Quincy, i do not keep an aquarium now, we moved and had to get rid of it, also when we moved we had two cats but sadly died. The aquarium was cared for and yes i probably didnt wash my hands properly...
I took it for 5 years and the only problem i seemed to have was dry eyes, the tiredness came from the bloodloss, with this came the sleeping longer than i was awake, i was diagnosed a week after...
I have read that cat saliva is not good, and it can cause inflamation in the joints, how true i'm not sure but i do know that some allergic reactions to cats do include swelling in facial areas and...
Sorry to bring on a new topic, I feel there are alot of topics more important than this but howmany people have cats and also marine aquariums, silly you might say but there is a reason. ROB...
Did anyone read the post and howmany do know about the calcium thing ? ROB...
Hello Picco, and my sypathies to your suffering, if its not enough that you are unwell. The devil in me says to ask your boyfriend to take a course of piccolax, the treatment you have before a visit...
Hello S, i'm not saying canned would not work but its the preservatives and syrup that they come in, if you did go with canned it there was no results then you might give the myth away as just that,...
Steriods taken this way albeit uncoftable are a better way to take as they do not pass through the liver and kidneys to be broken down, also if you take oral sterroids they absorb into your blood...
In my case i always remember my symptoms were under control, i ate a big bag of mixed nuts to wich the next day i sufferd badly and i was back to the start, the reason for the nuts was to get the...
JR with a little more thought could you put you hands on rasberries, these are more for inflamation rather than digestion?...
Desert dancer, smoking is not the answer and you do not want to make that trade !! it has been said that nicotine patches have been given out or have been looked into, could someone confirm this or...
It would be interesting to know if there are any smokers in this group? maybe a stab in the dark but i would say none, please post if you smoke or not it will be interesting, ROB...
JR thankyou for the welcome, no pineaple is a tricky one, what about broccoli ? by the ways its lunchtime in the UK so will call in soon so i will ponder on that one ROB...
Hi and thankyou for your comment, i have always maintained that colitis is a digestive disorder and that the intestine uses mucos to flush out what it thinks are toxins, also the swelling comes from...
Hi again, just incase you do not know, when taking sterroids you can be prone to ostyoparosis,(if thats how you spell it) brittle bones,(in later life) so you have to take in more calcium to try and...
Hi all, just a quick one, i was told to stay off any beers/largers that contain yeast and sugar . If anything i was told to dring spirits as there is less if not any present in them ROB...
Hi there and i'm new to this site, in short its to tell you all about what helps me and may help you. I was chronicaly ill with ulcerative colitis and visited my specialist on a regular basis,as we...