Bruce 360, yes. Basically that is it. I have the standing grator (the tower shaped). Works real well....
MarjieKay, you are right about the lemon. Based on what I read, it balances out the PH. Lemon becomes alkaline inside the stomach. It probably was the last piece of the healing puzzle for me, as was...
Hi MarjieKay, I have cut down the vitamin D to 1000IU twice a day. I do not check it regularly. In fact I don't remember the last time I checked it. I read an article about it and decided to give it...
I have been completely symptom free for last 2.5 years. This is what I do first thing in the morning: I freeze whole lemon and every morning I shred 1 or 2 tablespoons of the frozen lemon (skin and...
Yeah. I am sure it does help some. It does build immune system....
I was taking Humira shots every two weeks and still having symptome. I know I was inching towards the inevitable surgery. That's when I switched to Paleo. That changed things in a hurry. With in a...
I take Chyawanprash which is supposed to help immune system. I was told it's good to fend off colds. Not sure if it does anything for UC....
Hi All, Visiting back after some time to share my experience. Just over 2 years back I started on two things 1. Freeze a lemon and every morning take a spoonful (or 2) of shredded frozen lemon (peal...
I took a humira pen from San Francisco to Mumbai via Seoul and Singapore. Had my prescription and doctor's note with me. Didn't have any issue. I declared it at the security and they were ok with it....
dawn227, by that range I should be close to the upper range, but I am sure having those symptoms (well, not sure about the sore tongue...). To be fair thought, there could be a number of things...
@Dr-A. I have the exact same problem. Ready to sleep from early morning hours. Just got my blood work done yesterday. Other than low hbg (12), everything looks normal... This stupid thing is going to...
That definitely is interesting. Is there a way to find out if that is in fact the case? If the blood test shows excess B12, how do we know that it's actually the opposite? BTW, I don't have a J pouch...
Thanks for the responses. Makes me feel a bit better. @dawn227, I had the same reason for the test. I have been getting really tired/fatigued and can barely go through the afternoon lately. Emailed...
Hi all, How much B12 is considered good? I just got my blood report. It says the standard range is >=200 pg/mL while my count is >1000. Should I be concerned?...
Quincy, blood is with soft stool. I don't see much mucus. What works for me these days is Canasa suppository before going to bed. If I have blood in the morning, I sometimes use prep H suppository...
Thanks All. Really great feedback. Looks like the plantain flour is a No-No for now. I had actually tried it some time back and it went well for me at that time (that was the only time I didn't have...
Boy, what he lacks in knowledge he sure makes up for in his confidence. Now we are all enlightened. We should all stop wasting our time on this useless forum & start just popping pills. Thank you...
Hi All , I am noticing that every time I try resistance starch ( plantain flour ) , I bleed . Not just gases . Significant bleeding . I gave up a few times but so many times I keep on reading about...
Charcoal capsules sure help against D, but it basically absorbs EVERYTHING, including other medication. So use them wisely....
Thanks all for the kind words. HealingWell forum has so many stories of courage and determination, I always feel motivated just reading many of them. It would be very special if I motivate someone to...
Thanks everyone. I definitely attribute a huge part of my achievement to the HealingWell family. The info and the experiences shared here go a long way. I cannot thank you enough!! @MaxMilian, I...
Thanks everyone. @Viviane: yeah, the joints sure start to bother when you have to hold those lower stances where the but drops below the knee level. I figured after the 45th birthday (last year),...
Hi All, I just wanted to share with you all that last month I finally got my black belt in Kung Fu. Took me 6 years. I wanted to prove it to myself that even with this horrible disease, I can still...
Santa Clara Kaiser head of GI dept Dr Ready has been treating me since I was diagnosed (2004). She is really good. A bit old school, won't suggest anything outside of western medicine, but will...
I was on Amoxicillin...
So, after about 10 months of remission, I started to have some symptoms back in Aug this year (probably because of some stress and going non paleo on vacation). Then last month, as my symptoms were...
I am in Santa Clara. Used to go to the city a lot, but not much lately....
+1. It was absolutely scary to read the first pages of this thread. So relieved to read that things are improving. Your attitude must have helped you turning back from the disaster... Stay with it...
What goes a long way (for me) is to take out the processed food from the diet. After I started following PALEO, my symptoms went away quickly and I was able to get off Humira within a month, and have...
Congratulations.. Another success story with the lifestyle change rather than medicine tryouts. This is similar to my own experience. Isn't it amazing how quickly your body responds when you stop...
Thanks SN. Yeah, lot of info posted on this. Sounds interesting. My challenge is how to fit into my paleo lifestyle.. :-) Well, I do eat some rice occasionally, so may be that's a good starting...
Well, it's actually Resistant Starch, not Resistance Starch... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch...
Listening to a podcast today I came across "Resistance Starch". Apparently it's found in green bananas and uncooked potatoes and it'a a prebiotic - doesn't get digested in the small intestine and...
notsosicklygirl, that is exactly what my first thought was too (and my GI thought the same). It still may be the case. It's human nature to think that things they are doing are working (I am just...
I haven't tried the autoimmune protocol, just the regular paleo seems to work for me. Even with that, I can't say I follow it 100%. I think being aware of what you eat goes a long way. Hope you get...
Thank you. I actually did see noticeable difference with the raw milk when I started it. I also got some gas at the beginning. I figured that is because there are more bacteria in my system from the...
A quick update on my progress. I am still mostly symptom free. I have gotten some bleeding a few times (after eating very spicy food multiple meals in a row) but it stops in a day or two and I don't...
My doctor had not even heard of Paleo when I first mentioned. The doctors here in the US are no different than over there. They don't look too far beyond what they were taught in the medical school....
Paleo...
@herinnering, that is absolutely true. I think minimizing highly processed foods helped me the most. Adding healthy fats in place of processed oils also goes a long way. I also added a LOT of...
My GI told me try it out for myself if it helps when I ask her about it, but she thought it wouldn't make any difference. I go with the most inexpensive ones. Kefir made daily at home with whole...
After Humira started to fail on me last year, as a last desperate attempt to avoid the surgery, I switched to Paleo. In 3 weeks all my symptoms were gone and I stopped taking Humira shots. That was...
Killcolitis, I agree with you on the aspect of eating local because then you get fruits that are ripened on the tree. I am not very strict about the theoretical aspect myself. A lot of people cannot...
Killcolitis, For vegetables, my favorite are broccoli and cauliflower. Mostly because they are very convenient. Just cut them and microwave for 2 min (depending the power of the microwave). Then put...
I would add tallow, lard, butter/ghee to the good fat list....
For almost 8 years since I was first diagnosed with UC, my doctor told me, and I believed, that food is not a factor. When Remicade stopped working earlier this year, I was put on Humira as the last...
@Joanna, Local fresh raw milk would absolutely be the best. Start with small quantity (I started with one shot glassful). You said you can't have eggs on the the autoimmune protocol? I wonder why. I...
Well, knida. Mostly the brown rice I have seen is some local variety of rice that they leave the outer shell on (all the layers). This one (Laxmi brand basmati rice), they only leave the last layer...
@Joanna I was afraid to try the raw milk first, but there is a lot of info available on the benefits of raw milk on this forum as well as other places on the internet. A lot of what I read about the...
@soystud. lol!! I added the fish later when I remembered it. I guess I should have read it over once more... Doesn't take that much of extra time really. I keep the eggs boiling on the stove for 8...