http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6769/10/4 Anyone with any experience or knowledge on the topic? I have not had a chance to fully dissect this experiment, but I am interested in recreating it while...
just wondering the what the difference is between the two. i will ask my doctor, but wanted to see what would be said here. the reason i ask is that i have a ton of lialda lying around and the doctor...
christine and quincy- i just periodically buy the american wisconsin ginseng, not the top shelf stuff either... it buys me some awake time, not like a cup of coffee, but that is the main reason i...
Samantha, i understand... thats where i left that idea... ive heard of the juice and water fasting/diets but i know its not the same thing as a bowel rest... TPN is in the bloodstream... I had a...
relax and breathe. i commute to manhattan from west jersey. 40 mile car ride to newark, few blocks walk, light rail, path train, half mile walk to office toilet. there were several times i almost...
my personal interpretation of uc- somehow there is some small cut/ulcer (regardless of cause, i believe there is a purely physical occurrence as well as a biological type, as there are two kinds of...
... when you have a roll of paper towels in your car, and use them ... when you are the master of flushing and washing your hands while on the phone without people noticing malkavian- apparently not...
obvious mucus = sign of increased inflammation i get a mucusy wipe one day before blood gluten might not be a direct culprit, but i have found it to be one of my few definitive aggravators. i can...
damn, should have gotten some, was just in wisconsin! another reason to love that state. i keep a box of ginseng that i normally chew on to stay awake. never been able to link any noticible effect uc...
my stepmom used to make picked raw turmeric... stuff was delicious. the stuff is hard to find and takes a lot of work, also makes everything orange. i wish i still had a supply of the stuff....
stocked up with medco when i had my parents insurance on the lialda and enemas (neither of which i even use anymore) prednisone is dirt cheap- $10/ month 6mp - $60/ month dont normally take...
having been conducting this experiment myself, i will share my observations 1. quality matters- this is obvious to most, but is even more important i think when it comes to beer. i brew my own and...
anyone going? http://www.active.com/page/Event_Details.htm?event_id=1498842&assetId=af64a62c-d174-46e8-bc76-cd14d43513fc it says it starts at noon but i was under the impression that it met at...
i cant really keep a straight face when asked how im feeling haha but if im really feeling good i may say i feel human or alive again...
on my last day in india i stopped into a clinic called 'arya vaidya sala kottakkal" they are actually a famous ayurvedic clinic in india. i was prescribed a bagfull of medicines which i have been...
Anybody know anything about it? i have had a little bit before here and there but this morning it was almost like spraying out of a can it was all foam and it made a crackling sound. i am taking zero...
i am on a business trip in india living with my boss's brother. i have been drinking bottled water and eating mainly traditional indian foods. i drink one or two tender coconuts worth of water every...
if this book is related to the website colitis-breakthrough.com, that website gave me a virus...
Sara14- apparently they sell a can of oxygen in 7-11's across the country. it looks almost like a can of whipped cream, and is refrigerated. Probioic- ever hear of rectal insouffilaton (spelling)- it...
ehh i cant access the other articles but they have titles like: A different therapeutic approach in severe ulcerative hyperbaric oxygen treatment. [Rom J Gastroenterol. 2003] Hyperbaric oxygen...
did some research heres some stuff some of you who take ASA's and are rich may find interesting.. sorry to copy paste but the link goes to a journal you may not have access to so ill paste in the...
I was wondering if taking in increased pure oxygen would benefit us first of all there is ischemic colitis caused by lack of bloodflow= lack of oxygen then the anemia also has the same effect google...
betsaronie- curcumin is turmeric. i find that in the local ethnic stores in pickled form. i have been eating that for a while. i am assuming that you are taking it in pill or powdered form? do you...
I searched this forum for lymph nodes, didnt find anything. I have been feeling pain in what appears to be number 7 in this picture:anterior cervical node...
heres another possible factor- i am very aenimic, i notice that when my hands are above my heart for too long they sometimes start to spasm. could it simply be something to do with bloodflow?...
be careful with this book. i belive there is some intelligent information in this book presented about HOW to eat, but th einformation about what to eat is his personal bias-all vegan raw foods....
i had the blood test in the hospital- hemoglobin count was a 6 (normal 12). i turned down the transfusions, I felt too weak and didnt think it would go over well with my body. Now i am taking...
i had terrible results after eating stonyfield yogurt with inulin. SCD says inulin is bad for reasons mentioned above. Psyllium however has been good to me. it seems that the tapioca works in a...
i bought a jar of raw sauerkraut for the friendly bacteria without dairy. i did not have good results, but the problems may not have been caused by the cabbage.. couldve been stress or other foods....
i have been able to deal with th elack of energy by taking in sunlight. my energy level is so low that when i am in cold and dark places and not moving (like lecture halls) my body just shuts down,...
thats a pretty interesting article. thanks for sharing...
I live in NW jersey. Avoid: Dr Barbarito Summit Medical Group Dr. Dasani they are the typical run you through the list of drugs "i can precribe you anything you want.. you want steriods? asa's?" they...
i tried taking lialda daily and it made me feel terrible and tripled my bms, but it really reduced th ebleeding and mucus.... then i found out that if i took it only on the onset of flare symptoms it...
an interesting note is that from my limited observations, the Traditional Chinese Medicine tends to act on the spleen more so than the colon. The spleen is supposed to regulate blood and i believe...
Interesting.. i eat at least one banana a day, guess i need more potassium still. i also drink plenty of water...i get these hand spasms, they lock up-feels like the muscles reversed direction if...
I think they just had it messed up in their computer, bu tapparently he had the preccription form in stock but could not dispense it without a prescription. The regular was out of stock so he couldnt...
I went into a walgreens to pick up some vsl3 and i was told that i needed a presription. Having bought the stuff in the past, i was surprised. The pharmacist went to go look up information and all he...
mr. horus, i dont claim to know anything, i am just presenting some thoughts i have had and what my doctor said in order to learn more about them. being stuck in a long stretch of midterms and...
My stepmom is on prednisone for a different autoimmune disorder. shes stuck on it, cant reduce her dosage. she has to take 2 or 3 other medicines just to fight the side effects of the prednisone. Its...
this post is intended to throw out some ideas that i have recently acquired, and to see if anyone can be helped by them or can add more knowledge to them After seeing 3 incompetant GI's, I had the...
personal experience- i cut out yeast immediateley when i cut out gluten, things got bad- because i was eating a lot of rice and corn flours but i had been eating lots of flour tortillas, and if i...
Thanks a lot for those links FosterDad and pb4 i will check them out. Nicepeter- i have taken vsl#3 there is also a similar product called floraQ which is what my gi recomended. I looked it up and it...
99% anemia take iron vitamin c and b12 my gi gave me a prescription for chromagen which is iron, vit c and b12 for the anemia. Do something about it, when the blood is too weak, it make sit that much...
After an analysis of my life right before UC, this is my best thoery on root cause. i was having sinus problems and at that time i wasnt as nature-oriented as i am now i had something like a"just cut...
its tough when i am having sex i get this image of my colon creasing liek when youre trying to break something in half.. fo rthe same reason i cant do situps/crunches often. but i have noticed that...
Ill tell you what ive tried: - david kliens book pushing a vegan raw diet- followed it exactly for 1 month- was the worst. I was extremeley weakened and lost about 55 pounds (110lbs down from 165lbs)...
i have been studying some Eastern alt medicine and one thing they said I should do is sleep on my left side, something about having the right nostril breathing warmer air. but what that actually does...