Re: Fairly new to SCD.....

April 30, 2010

Hi Tamra,

Although there are many causes, I think any gut injury gets us all to the same

place.

I really think GI injury and bacterial overgrowth messes with your head. There

is a gut-brain connection. Yes, there is also mental illness and a place for

that diagnosis and the medications that go with it. However, I have heard

stories of people who were just fine until they developed GI illness, and it

makes me wonder..

The good news is that I have heard of people clearing up mentally and

emotionally along with the gut issues. SCD is not a cure for true mental

illness, but people have reported the clearing of brain fog and anxiety if these

were related to gut injury before.

I hope that SCD brings you relief of both the GI and emotional symptoms.

PJ

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> I'm fairly new to SCD, only 55 days now, but I'm having slightly more normal

BMs that started almost immediately after beginning the diet. I've been reading

all your stories, about how long many of you have been sick, and the way people

and doctors have treated some of you.

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> I've only been sick 3 years, but I never imagined 3 years ago when I got c.

diff that I would still be sick 3 years later, and all of the crazy things that

went haywire with my body and brain. I thought once the c. diff was out of my

intestines my life would go back to normal, but it left me with post-infectious

IBS, chronic diarrhea, malabsorption and weight loss, thyroid problems,

insomnia, panic attacks, severe depression and suicidal thoughts (2 years ago),

restless leg syndrome, brain fog, and a painful case of fibromyalgia. I was a

very healthy, active, happy, mentally stable person before all this started. I

want nothing more than to have a " normal " life again and be a good mother to my

6 year old daughter. My husband is very understanding and supportive, but I feel

guilty putting so much on him because I'm nauseous and sick much of the time.

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> My hat's off to all of you who have been through years of illness and are now

helping others with SCD. I'm sticking with the diet and hoping that like many of

you, in time, I'll get some measure of health and normalcy back in my life.

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> Tamra in Gilroy

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