Encouragement

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Hello. My son was diagnosed with Chrohn's 2 yearws ago and have been on the

immuno-suppresaant etc. I highly dislike them and as his condition did nto seem

to improve they recommended remicade. That scared me quite a bit. That was when

we discovered SCD. i did all teh research a bouitght several cook books and

started following teh vari0ous stages. he hated it as a 9 year old but adapted

as I chose to follow it with him. 2 months in we got really gung how and started

almond flour and several other leagal items and it all went down hill as he

started ot have floar eups again and after a fall that put him in teh hospital

we restarted back at the intro diet.

The next 3 months were wonderful as he gained weight was in the bathroom only

once a day. All seemed fine. we went on vacattion and was very careful to insure

all teh food form restaurants were legal and tried ot be very careful. But i am

sure some illegals made it in here and there.

Still he continued to do well and we decided to move to stage 2 (after 3 months)

with almond butter and even almond flour baked goods. Things seemed to go

downhill almost immediately. We stopped the new foods and went back to only bare

green beans and bland meat with SCD BBQ sauce and his standard SCD smoothie,

fruits etc. But the flare up has remained for 3 weeks and with school starting

we are at a low point to continue with the diet as it just seems to be torture

for him with the bathroom runs returning.

My question: is this common to have flares when we have been so strict and have

others run into the same experience. I want to keep at it but I expect his

gastologist (who turned us on to the diet) will be back to pushing remicade

again...

Thoughts, encouragement, advice?

Thanks!