Considering next steps and LDN

[Guest guest]

I've been following the LDN discussions with interest and I'm pondering

my next steps in my life with UC.

As many of you know, I had a mild flare with bleeding in March-April

that I'm pretty sure was brought on by some IV antibiotics I received

during an outpatient surgery. I was ultimately able to stop the bleeding

by using Canasa suppositories, which I have discontinued. I have also

gone back on my old standby med, sulfasalazine, but I'm tapering it and

am not having any symptoms. Since it didn't change anything during the

flare, I'm dubious as to whether it's really doing anything anyway.

From a diet perspective, I'm pretty much back to eating anything that's

SCD legal without symptoms.

So - my internal debate is whether I should just shoot for getting back

to where I was before, which was strict SCD, med-free, and symptom-free.

Or, is there value in trying LDN? It seeems like so many people have had

great results not only for intestinal disease but for other things like

allergies, PMS, etc. (things that I also suffer from). But on the other

hand, isn't simply being med-free better?

It just seems like it's a bit of a hassle to get the prescription for

LDN. I'm pretty sure my GI doctor won't go for it, because I mentioned

it when I was in for my flare and he said, " that's only for Crohn's,

which is different than what you have. " (duh) I could probably get my

family doctor to write a script, but I'm debating whether it's worth the

effort.

Thoughts?

Kathy

UC since 12/05

SCD since 7/07

flare 3/23-5/1, fixed w/Canasa

tapering sulfasalazine