Re: Anyone tried Jini Patel-'s Protocols or Absorb Plus

[Guest guest]

At 04:41 AM 3/29/2010, you wrote:

I'm so grateful for your time. I

can understand someone feeling the need to pay for the chance to discuss

alternatives and possibilities about diets and supplements. My own doctor

spent very little time with me and dismissed diet from the get-go. I do

recall feeling completely out on a limb and isolated until I found this

board.

The best way I can thank you and everyone else here is to " pay it

forward " and help others along the way as well.

Well, you know, it's funny. In some cases, advice is worth what you pay

for it. But it so many instances, like this Specific Carbohydrate Diet,

the value is not in what you pay for it, but in what you gain from

it.

I can -- and do -- get paid here and there, since I do telephone

counseling. I've had a few gifts -- like the lady who insisted on

sending me a check when we were evacuated for Katrina. (I had asked for

donations to the SPCA and Red Cross because (a) Harry and I were OK, and

we knew our house hadn't flooded, and ( our fur kids were safe, and

with us, and © a good on-line friend had given us a free place to stay

which included a fenced yard for the furkids -- I repaid him by cooking

dinner the whole month we were there!) I was somewhat uncomfortable, but

she insisted. I nearly fell over when I saw the amount of the check --

but she said that was what the value of the recipes I'd posted were to

her and her family.)

But for the most part, there were many, many people, including Elaine,

who put in countless hours on the list when I was but an Egg, teaching me

how to implement this wonderful, healing diet. The thing I

appreciated most was that I bought the book. And that was all I needed to

implement the diet. I did not need this seminar and that supplement.

Well, I admit, I have an awful not more kitchen-gear than I ever had

before, even with being a good cook. So I pay forward, by helping others.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

At 02:00 PM 3/29/2010, you wrote:

It is certainly not my intention

to hijack this SCD board on behalf of Jini Patel-Thomson, far from it in

fact. However I would suggest that it is only right that we discuss other

protocols here; after all if someone really did find a cure for all of

our problems so that we could all eat what we want then we would want to

know about it.

Ultimately I have to make my own decision. I have been on SCD for 3.5mths

but as yet no improvement but I don't have UC or Chron's. Thank you all

for your input and I would welcome input from others.

I don't have an issue with the occasional mention of other protocols.

However, this is an SCD board, not a general gut-health board. We

appreciate that you respect our opinions.

In 25 years of being sick, I explored a lot of stuff, and SCD is the only

one that made sense, and which worked. I'm sure if there was a CURE, we'd

hear about it, but I'm not sure there will be. After all, patients who

are CURED only buy one set of medication. But patients who are in

REMISSION continue to buy the " cure. " The second way is much

more profitable for whoever is marketing the Cure.

I don't have UC or Crohn's, either. I have what I call IBS, but that

hasn't been diagnosed. It was soft, mushy stool, urgency, humiliation,

nausea, frustration, no energy -- and every time I mentioned it to my

doctors I was told to stop stuffing my face, lose some weight, and it

would all clear up. So if I become unduly emphatic on the subject of this

being an SCD board, not a general gut-issues board, that's why. SCD

works. Nothing else has proved to me that it does.

Let me see... 3.5 months. I hadn't even gotten STARTED doing SCD

correctly at that point!

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle

[Guest guest]

At 02:00 PM 3/29/2010, you wrote:

It is certainly not my intention

to hijack this SCD board on behalf of Jini Patel-Thomson, far from it in

fact. However I would suggest that it is only right that we discuss other

protocols here; after all if someone really did find a cure for all of

our problems so that we could all eat what we want then we would want to

know about it.

Ultimately I have to make my own decision. I have been on SCD for 3.5mths

but as yet no improvement but I don't have UC or Chron's. Thank you all

for your input and I would welcome input from others.

I don't have an issue with the occasional mention of other protocols.

However, this is an SCD board, not a general gut-health board. We

appreciate that you respect our opinions.

In 25 years of being sick, I explored a lot of stuff, and SCD is the only

one that made sense, and which worked. I'm sure if there was a CURE, we'd

hear about it, but I'm not sure there will be. After all, patients who

are CURED only buy one set of medication. But patients who are in

REMISSION continue to buy the " cure. " The second way is much

more profitable for whoever is marketing the Cure.

I don't have UC or Crohn's, either. I have what I call IBS, but that

hasn't been diagnosed. It was soft, mushy stool, urgency, humiliation,

nausea, frustration, no energy -- and every time I mentioned it to my

doctors I was told to stop stuffing my face, lose some weight, and it

would all clear up. So if I become unduly emphatic on the subject of this

being an SCD board, not a general gut-issues board, that's why. SCD

works. Nothing else has proved to me that it does.

Let me see... 3.5 months. I hadn't even gotten STARTED doing SCD

correctly at that point!

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle