6 month die off? painful symptom - your thoughts please

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Hi,

I have just reached the 6 month milestone on the scd and I think I am

experiencing my second die-off (I had one around the 3-4 month mark

as well). This time is a little different. It started about a week

and a half ago with some D and urgency returning. There is very

little blood which I am taking to be a great sign but I am suffering

from stabbing stomach pains. First off they signalled that I needed

to get to the loo quickly but in the last couple of days the D has

calmed down (I was eating from my safe foods list - I had not got

past that in the last 6 months but since yesterday have been on the

strict intro diet.) but the pain is still there. It seems to start

stabbing when my stomach grumbles - I have been quite windy as well

(burping like a trooper!). It is quite a sharp pain which throbs for

about 10-20 seconds and then goes again.

Sorry for the essay but I was wondering if anyone else had

experienced anything like this and if anyone had any tips to get past

this. My instinct is to ride it out as I am trying to taper off my

meds at the mo (down to 1 balsalazide a day and 2 azathioprine) and

don't want to go to the docs and for them to prescribe something for

me.

ps I did have a slightly similar pain early on in the diet. It had

similar symptoms but was solely concentrated on the lower left side

of my guts and didn't seem to correlate with bms.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

Cheers,

Mike

UC 6 years

SCD 6 months