To Re: Help Needed

[Guest guest]

Hi

Actually I had a good July 1st (I'm from Ontario, Canada and we

celebrate Canada Day on July 1st) but happy 4th of July to you. I

have a brother who lives in Tennessee.

Anyway, what I did that worked for me was kept eating my 10-15 foods

that I knew that didn't cause me any problems at all and ate just

those until I felt much better and alot of my symptoms left. It took

me about 2-3 months of doing this and then I would add 1 new food

every 5-7 days. I still do everything really well cooked and

deseeded and am proceeding cautiously but like I said I've got my

life back. I was pretty much housebound a year ago - I even had to

send my husband out to do the grocery shopping because I knew I

wouldn't make it in time to the bathroom at the grocery store if I

was at the other end of the store if I needed to go. Anyway my main

foods for those first 2-3 months were roast chicken, chicken soup,

carrots, squash, zucchini, spinach, beef patties, bananas,

applesauce, hard boiled eggs, yogurt and after 2 months I added

cheddar cheese and macadamia nut butter which I made with bananas

for muffins and had no problems with these. If I'm having PMS my

symptoms usually get a little worse, so I always go back to the

basics for a few days and it helps alot. If you have any more

questions please feel to email me directly if you wish. Also,

someone from this group posted information about taking Jarrow

Formulas Curcumin 95 and I have been taking this for 2 weeks now and

it has helped tremendously - I can't get over how it seems to calm

my system down. I take 1 with breakfast and 1 with dinner. It's a

natural anti-inflammatory and actually helps your body produce the

hormone cortisol naturally that is the same found in the dreaded

predisone. So this may also be helping me get off my meds. I'm down

to 3 mg of predisone this week which would never have been possible

before and I'm almost symptom free except for urgency 1st thing in

the morning. Anyway, good luck and I know it's hard at the beginning

but trust me - so worth it.

Deanna

UC since 2005

SCD since Feb 2008