Re: Re: Where i'm planning on going from here, any suggestions? Improvements to my plan?

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Next time I go to the doc I am going to ask him for a blood test to confirm. I did the "spit test" in the morning and I had stringy stuff within 1 minute. However, the test is notoriously inaccurate. I've been taking oil of oregano, garlic/carrot juice, grapefuirt seed extract, and coconut oil for the past 2 weeks just in case. No change yet.-UC - 1+ yearsSCD - 7 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.Asacol - 5 pills a dayTo: BTVC-SCD From: dawntasher@...Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:42:48 +0000Subject: Re: Where i'm planning on going from here, any suggestions? Improvements to my plan?

, do you think you could have candida? I am thinking you might have a biofilm problem. Please don't throw in the towel. I have had lots of regressions (I think most people do) and I always come out on the other side of them.

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> Just wanted to put this out there for any suggestions on what you would change/do differently. I'm still flaring though not as bad from 2 months ago when I was forced to take the same antibiotics that got me here in the first place. I've tried intro diet and i've gone as far as eating nothing but water and chicken/beef (not ground) for 3 days at a time with no change except going less because I couldn't eat enough. Ive lost too much weight to keep trying that, so i've kept the honey cut out 100% and am eating mostly meat, eggs, and very diluted grape juice. I can't seem to find a connection with what i'm eating vs how well I feel. It all depends on the medication or the day and it seems random. I will get better for a few days, then go backwards. I think this is because I am not using the steroids every night since I don't have enough to last me until I get health insurance again (next month). I got S. boullardi and I am going to try that once I am out of the steroids along with some Rowasa enemas with the Asacol I am currently taking. I have a feeling if I could take the full dose of asacol i'd be doing better but I don't have enough of it so I had to ration it.

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> Once I get the insurance back I am going to ask the doc to switch me to Colazol since i've read posts from Elaine that Colazol helps to keep the bacterial population in check while asacol does not. I'm assuming Colazol is sulfa free? (i'm allergic to sulfa drugs) On top of the colazol I plan on taking Diflucan for 3 weeks and starting LDN at this time. Hopefully it works. If not, i'm considering throwing in the towel and just enjoying my life while I can.

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Next time I go to the doc I am going to ask him for a blood test to confirm. I did the "spit test" in the morning and I had stringy stuff within 1 minute. However, the test is notoriously inaccurate. I've been taking oil of oregano, garlic/carrot juice, grapefuirt seed extract, and coconut oil for the past 2 weeks just in case. No change yet.I just finished a few weeks of candex and two weeks of diflucan and have had plenty ofreally crappy feeling die off and I just did the spit test and apparently I still have it too. Though at themoment I'm also coming off of a severe cold (which may have been influenced by thedie off), so that might have effected the spit test, too, in some way.I think I'm going to ask my doctor to prescribe the OAT test next week and for anotherround of diflucan. And don't let anyone ever tell you there's no die off with diflucan - I got fever die off with it last week. Mara