Yes normally oral iron supplements form highly reactive oxygen radicals which would further aggravate your condition. Thinking that oral iron will cause less stress inside the colon is the wrong...
Funmomma, I question highly your use of oral iron supplements. If you are indeed critically anemic then you should opt for iron infusions instead. Oral iron will only irritate the colon. I'd also...
I remember awhile ago when I first heard of this bioperine when I saw it on a supplement bottle that included turmeric. I was immediately suspicious of it and have avoided it. Now I see supplement...
I've got to wonder Paul, if you are even considered a "normal" uc patient. You seem to not react well to any of the standard drugs used to keep UC at bay. That right there should indicate something....
Steph, I don't use the xylocain enemas nor do I use the mesalamine enemas currently since I'm not flaring. I get away with canasa and 2 asacol tabs a day. If I were in a flare I'd certainly take...
Sara, No I didn't have issues with wheat or yeast before I got UC. Now one single wheat meal and I'll be ruined for the rest of the day and the next day I'll feel queasy. My body will speedily...
I avoid yeast and wheat also. They make organic 100 % rice pasta so don't think you have to give up pasta, just wheat. I mix my rice pasta with chicken(soy for you) and snap peas and wheat free soy...
I feel like I know you a bit better after seeing your myspace page. Here's the problem with prednisone steroid enemas. If you're on them for any long length of time you become steroid dependant. That...
Yes the rectal meds hurt if your rectum is inflammed and you have open ulcers but that is what they are for, to get the inflammation and bleending stopped. You gotta grit through the first few days...
JennyD, In case you didn't bother to read the links I posted about mangosteen juice I thought I'd point out some interesting points it made. "The mangosteen phenomenon is a reprise of the aloe vera,...
I've had this condition too long and tried everything and been there done that twice and went around the world doing it. One response to it could be placebo and that your body craved liquids because...
The problem with the SCD is that they didn't know hardly anything at all about bacteria back when she wrote her book in the early 1980's. She tries to implicate bacteria, candida, parasites, sugar...
So much to rant about in here I barely can contain myself in regards to the misinformation parroted out like a broken recond based on unknown and nonpeer reviewed research. The very thought that...
Well kazy if your diet is anything like your potato salad recipe then... As far as pred stop working, yes it can. You can get steroid dependant. Imuran or AZA will help upregulate the steroid...
(Spam hammer out and willing to use it) Isn't it funny how they try to sound like they are suffering from our same disease then WHAM presto chango within 1-2 of trying X product they feel cured. If I...
Thankfully people got to her about not relying on magosteen juice before I did. I swear there are so many MLM people that pollute these boards with their latest cancer cures and cure alls it makes me...
Kazy, Your recipe has everything in it I would avoid like the plague. Raw onions -1 whole raw onion.- Are you kidding me? Eat a raw onion and get back to me. Wine vinegar-nope WAY too harsh on my...
Well the potatoes aren't so horribly bad if you had eaten them cold. I avoid eggs because I just don't like the taste but if the are cooked then the immune antigens in eggs are neutralized. Bacon is...
Consider yourself lucky that you aren't too far gone yet. I was flaring for a whole year before I ever got treated. My cbc chem profile test looked like a horror story. You really have to find a way...
The scd diet is a joke. It is incomplete, rely's on 1950's era research and is way way way too restrictive unnecessarily. Stay away from red meat. Eat chicken, fish, turkey. I have great success with...
Forget that SCD diet as it is too haphazard in it's approach and too hard to follow. Besides it's focus on casein as a protein diet source causes colon cancer in rats. Plus it thins out the mucus...
Take entocort instead then or do every 3rd day dosing with pred to avoid the sides. You could be either a slow or fast drug metabolizer. Ask your doc to check how fast you metabolize drugs via a...
I read this article about potatoes a few years ago and tried to stop eating fried potatoes. I had the occassional french fry binge. After cutting them out of my diet to see if they effected it I'd...
Tapioca flour is fairly high in oxalic acid which binds minerals like calcium and makes the kidney work hard to excrete it. Over long periods of time if you injest tapioca around the same time as a...
JSMOM, I have done the short chain fatty acid enemas in the form of butyrate enemas for proctitus. If the rectum is inflammed and bleeding then adding butyrate enemas will sting a bit. The PH of the...
Very promising. See the video yourself. MD Anderson cancer treatment center (largest in the US) involved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkzCSNTYWXg...
Has this been seen before in this forum? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkzCSNTYWXg...
Here is a youtube video of it. Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRh4vwLJAiU&NR=1...
Hopefully this will turn out as well for humans as it has for animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRh4vwLJAiU&NR=1 http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3810892&page=1...
You should use emptied fleet enema bottles instead. Extra virgin olive oil is not an extreme irritant. How much lecithin/phosphatidylcholine are you using per dose?...
I'm well aware that if you have it compounded that it can be expensive and a prescription is needed. That is why some have tried this phosphatidylcholine enema themselves. The water route is a bit...
Sara, Acacia fiber gets converted mainly to propionate which is not as beneficial as butyrate. Yes you will get gas from injesting resistant starches, that's not really a bad thing if you can handle...
The main pesticide they use now is called neonicitinoids. Basically it shuts down their immune system and they get symptoms like autoimmune disease and die. And we put this on our food and eat it. I...
Sara, Metamucil is fine because it has psyllium husk in it. Fiber sure (from the makers of metamucil)-a seperate product, I had a bad reaction to becuase of the short length inulin it is mostly...
1s, I'm assuming that you think the key to remission is because of the posts I had up earlier in the year about mucus manipulation. In going over your remarks I noticed that you think that changing...
Now is a good brand as it has a mix of short and long chain inulin.(long chain being the preferred). Inulin is converted into butyrate in the colon by bacteria. Fiber choice also has a mix short and...
The reason why tapioca works for some is because of the high conversion rate to butyrate in the colon since tapioca is a resistant starch. UC patients can also get this resistant starch in beans,...
If a flu shot works while on imuran then there is reason enough to believe that injecting a wart with skin antigen will produce the desired results as well. Both different shots are trying to get the...
If your immune system is lowered from imuran such that you get more and more warts, then just continually burning, freezing, cutting or other superficial means of removing the wart is pointless as...
Leave your email address in your profile and I'll email you about this procedure. I am the one that knows the most about it....
You can use intralesional immunotherapy by injecting the wart with skin antigen which makes the immune system attack the virus, even at other distant sights from the initial injection. Read about it...
Looks like it upregulates t reg cells. http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINN0524620920071007 ** I just made your link active :) ...
To Delarge. It is common to use the term butyrate and butyric acid interchangeably. Notice the TITLE of the research paper. It uses the term BUTYRATE- NOT BUTYRIC ACID....
The part about it being communicable is disturbing but really nothing new here for me as I run across work almost weekly that sounds like this. The problem is that there must be dozens and dozens of...
This is not really true the way they present it. The reality is that short chain FOS or inulin is the culprit in this- SHORT CHAIN. Long chain inulin and other resistant starches are good for you. I...
To Paul L, Could it be that you weren't responding to anything because of the C difficile this whole time?...
I did read your posts and that is why I take issue with your blanket statements. Already I see 2-3 people that posted that are trying this based soley on just your recommendation. No where do I see...
Consider your daughters positive 1 year response to antibiotics lucky and certainly not the norm and you'll agree with that I'm sure if you've spent any amount of time here. Myself I've tried 2...
So you're saying everyone has f. varium in them? If so, then of course UC sufferers would have f. varium, because everyone does. Or am I misunderstanding? Hi...I was too general in my statement..I...
What's this? Another someone that doesn't respond to any of the traditional and nontraditional colitis meds anymore suddenly finding success with an antibiotic regimine? YAWN!!! Antibiotic therapy...