I have heard from doctors that Ulcerative Colitis is a disease that can "come and go" on its own. They indicate that periods of remission can come at random. Question: How do they know this? Did...
Do you think it could also cause Ulcerative Colitis? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3031217/ ...
So I might be confused here. If I have the disease, but I never have a 'trigger'...am I just normal? Theoretically, could everyone on the planet have UC...but they have just never come into contact...
Dr-A, I have little trouble believing this statement--"Stress and poor diet can kill you, but isn't cause for everyone's UC." I don't even need a source from you haha but great trouble believing this...
Personally, I doubt that stress and diet are THE cause of UC (though it seems reasonable that they could be one of many causes)...that is not my argument. I just think it is ridiculous to claim that...
Yah, that is what I'm after...show me the epidemiological study that proves stress and/or diet DOES NOT cause UC--I can't find it anywhere!...
Thanks Old Mike! I hadn't seen those yet. Very interesting...
"Never say never" -Justin Bieber...
Is there any chance that UC is contagious (again I have read that it is FOR SURE NOT contagious--but how can they know when they DON"T know...you know)? There was one experiment I read about that...
They don't know what the immune system is attacking in Ulcerative Colitis. It definitely seems to be in a different category from autoimmune diseases like MS (where it is known that the immune system...
FightUC, I noticed that you have tried FMT...how long did you do it for? I had really good luck with it right away and then had a relapse. I'm not sure if I did it long enough. I am planning to try...
^^ directed at ipoop...sorry, I'm new at these forms. FightUC, Yah, I have definitely ready studies on that stuff...really scary...I took antibiotics quite a bit...definitely will think twice now....
Yah, but by that logic UC is definitely NOT caused by infection or immune dysfunction because there are people with both of those problems that do not have UC...I'm not arguing that stress and diet...
I have read countless times that no one knows the cause of Ulcerative Colitis. Furthermore, it seems that people actually don't have it all that narrowed down. It could still be anything from immune...
Has anyone heard of this stuff? It looks like I can buy it from Sigma-Aldrich Corp. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6769/10/4...
Canada...where did you read about using bacteria to modify genes? Could this same process have been used by a pathogen to give me colitis in the first place? If this disease is genetic...was I in...
Yah! It looks promising for UC! The medical textbook I'm reading mentions the article you posted. I would like to try to get my hands on some...it looks like the only place I can buy from is in...
Where do you get this stuff? I read about it in "Advanced Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease" by Theodore M. Bayless....