Back to SCD and Intro Diet

[Guest guest]

My wife has some auto-immune tendancies, with Reynods and severe IBD...We put

her on the SCD 5 years back. She followed the diet rigorously for 2 years,

completly regaining her health, and remission of her Reynods and IBD. We

gradually re-introduced ALL foods, and she ate normally for 3 years following.

It was amazing. Just as proclaimed! She has recently come off her second

pregnancy and nursing, and she was hit like a truck. She began showing signs of

high gas in Dec, and by Mid Jan was bleeding, had internally observed mucus, D*

four to ten times daily. We have been back on the diet for almost 2 months,

although we skipped the intro diet thinking that if we hit it early, we could

nip the problem quickly. She has shown no improvment. Obviously, we have

resorted to the intro diet to see if this will help, but are only 1 to 2 days

in. Most see improvement within a month, how many don't see an improvement in

2? I'm concluding the intro is extremely important not matter how quickly you

hit the diet; we recognized the problem quicker than most, and hit the diet

right away. We had such great success the first go around, but her condition

has never been this bad. I'm confident we will get there, but have others taken

so long to show improvement? It must be that no matter how quickly you observe

the problem, the intro diet is a must? How reliable is the intro diet in

killing flare ups for those already on the diet...have others tried the diet for

a month or two without the intro and failed?

Ted

[Guest guest]

> My wife has some auto-immune tendancies, with Reynods and severe IBD...We put

her on the SCD 5 years back. She followed the diet rigorously for 2 years,

completly regaining her health, and remission of her Reynods and IBD. We

gradually re-introduced ALL foods, and she ate normally for 3 years following.

It was amazing. Just as proclaimed! She has recently come off her second

pregnancy and nursing, and she was hit like a truck. She began showing signs of

high gas in Dec, and by Mid Jan was bleeding, had internally observed mucus, D*

four to ten times daily. We have been back on the diet for almost 2 months,

although we skipped the intro diet thinking that if we hit it early, we could

nip the problem quickly. She has shown no improvment. Obviously, we have

resorted to the intro diet to see if this will help, but are only 1 to 2 days

in. Most see improvement within a month, how many don't see an improvement in

2? I'm concluding the intro is extremely important not matte!

> r how quickly you hit the diet; we recognized the problem quicker than most,

and hit the diet right away. We had such great success the first go around, but

her condition has never been this bad. I'm confident we will get there, but

have others taken so long to show improvement?

The problem is you can't just restart from where you were the first time,

because

in her current condition, she may not be tolerating the same foods - hence

the efficacy of intro, because it wipes the slate clean and you find out where

you

are now. Some foods she used to tolerate could be causing her to react,

especially after the hormonal changes of pregnancy, etc.

Also, unfortunately, sometimes the second time around things move more slowly,

sometimes a lot more slowly in terms of healing. Just a fact to bear in mine if

it

keeps on being slow.

> It must be that no matter how quickly you observe the problem, the intro diet

is a must? How reliable is the intro diet in killing flare ups for those

already on the diet...

> have others tried the diet for a month or two without the intro and failed?

Oh, yes. This happens all the time. All the time. (repetition for stress)

Mara

[Guest guest]

Hello,I'm watching this and considering my own return to intro this week. Can I expect that bloating will stop after a few days on intro? my instincts would be to stay on intro until bloating goes completely away, but I guess you are only supposed to do it for no more than 5 days? and I don't really have time anyways.. hmmmm

Thanks,p.s. BTW, how come applesauce has to be homemade? can I use organic store bought with no extra ingredients listen? thanksOn Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Wizop Marilyn L. Alm wrote:

 

At 03:28 PM 3/25/2010, you wrote:

It must be that no matter how

quickly you observe the problem, the intro diet is a must? How reliable

is the intro diet in killing flare ups for those already on the

diet...have others tried the diet for a month or two without the intro

and failed?

Sorry to hear that your wife has had a relapse -- but it's great that you

all knew what steps to take at once!

Yes, going back to intro is essential. I was doing fine before my cancer

surgery two years ago, but between the anesthesia, the antibiotics, and

them juggling my gut around (it was for uterine cancer), and then pain

killers chock full of illegals, I had more than a bit of a relapse. I

went back to clear liquids, to thick liquids, to soft foods, always

staying in my range of intro diet foods, gradually building up what I

could eat again.

The problem is that since this diet is designed to starve out the bad

bacteria and get their numbers way low, that exactly what you did, and

that's why your wife could have non-SCD foods.  But the bad bacteria

that are left are the stronger ones, so when thing got unstable, what

with the hormonal changes with the pregnancy and everything, those bad

bacteria leaped out and said, " Ah hah! Here's out chance! " And

because they were the stronger ones, they'll be harder to starve down to

dealable numbers.

However, you all have done it before and you'll do it again!

—

Marilyn

    New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

    Darn Good SCD Cook

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