RE: Back to SCD and Intro Diet

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I did intro for 4 days, and I ate nothing but meat with no carrots, no nothing... not dairy, only meat for 2 days. It helped me out but not enough to get me over the edge and get the flare going in the right direction. It would always come back and I was too weak and couldn't live eating like that. So, I decided to take more medicine, eat more advanced foods so I can gain some weight back, and once I heal again with the help of the meds i'll go back to intro/stage 1 foods and then work my way up looking for signs of reaction. Been on the diet almost a year, and when I first started I didn't see an improvement for a few months. -UC - 1+ yearsSCD - 8 months 100% strict and 4 months restricted diet.Asacol - 12 pills a day Prednisone 40mg entocort With vit E mixed inBack to intro/stage 1 for now.To: BTVC-SCD From: theodorepagano@...Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:28:41 +0000Subject: Back to SCD and Intro Diet

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

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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

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