ulcerative colitis experiment

[Guest guest]

Howdy

I first posted several months ago, and have been lurking since then.

Reading previous posts to get a feel for what is talked about.

Anyway, I'm currently dealing with severe ulcerative colitis. Right

now, I'm taking Prednisone and receiving Remicade infusions.

However, the *real* medicine (i.e. maintainance) is Azathioprine.

What a cocktail... It is working, though. I'm symptom free.

To my point... Before I was on medication, my reaction to wheat and

corn was violent, hence the colitis. It was as if my body would

rather rip itself to pieces than allow those foods to be digested.

Well, shortly after I recovered through medication, I decided to see

what wheat would do to me. Dangerous, but I like to know the full

story when it comes to my health.

The result was interesting. Wheat can no longer damage my intestines

due to the drugs... so it manifested its bad effects in other parts

of my body. It causes my joints to swell painfully, and my legs,

too. It also makes my skin painfully sensitive. It even affects my

eyes... as if they, too, are bloated. The symptoms take 2-3 days to

leave my body after I stop eating wheat and corn. All in all, it was

a horrible and enlightening experience.

Just thought I would share that with y'all. It certainly provided me

with a renewed conviction to follow the diet.

sean

[Guest guest]

Thanks for sharing!! I have all kinds of problems

from corn. Wheat is more tolerable to me, but I can't

tolerate it in very large quantities...gastric

problems. Glad you are almost over your colitis.

When do you think you will be off the medications?

K.

--- dogstar360 <dogstar360@...> wrote:

> Howdy I first posted several months ago, and have

been lurking since then. Anyway, I'm currently

dealing with severe ulcerative

colitis>

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[Guest guest]

Fascinating. The Prednisone that you take orally is suppressing the

immune response within you digestive tract. However, it seems powerless

to mediate the more systemic complications that you are experiencing. I

feel for ya' buddy. I am a bit concerned about your treatment

protocol. It's just making you sicker in the long run. I want to

reiterate my earlier suggestion to get the book Adrenal Fatigue: The

21st Century Stress Syndrome, by , ND, DC, PhD. It is the

definitive book on Adrenal Fatigue (hypoadrenia). It is available here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890572152/qid=1016870081/sr=8-1/ref=

sr_8_3_1/102-9927177-2583322

If you have any disease or syndrome which requires the use of prednisone

as a treatment, your problem is a dearth of the hormone " cortisol " which

is produced in the cortex of your adrenal gland. In other words, you

are suffering from adrenal fatigue—guaranteed. I recommend trying to

get your doctor to switch you to a divided dose of 20 mg hydrocortisone

(chemically-identical cortisol, used before doctors started getting

treatment advice from pharmaceutical companies). You should also

consider supplementing with adrenal cortical extract and gradually

tapering off the synthetic hormone. Check the book for more details.

I'm going to send you forwards of a few emails that I've sent to

regarding the alternative treatment process from the book.

Cheers,

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 08:21 AM, dogstar360 wrote:

> Howdy

>

> I first posted several months ago, and have been lurking since then. 

> Reading previous posts to get a feel for what is talked about.

>

> Anyway, I'm currently dealing with severe ulcerative colitis.  Right

> now, I'm taking Prednisone and receiving Remicade infusions. 

> However, the *real* medicine (i.e. maintainance) is Azathioprine. 

> What a cocktail...  It is working, though.  I'm symptom free.

>

> To my point...  Before I was on medication, my reaction to wheat and

> corn was violent, hence the colitis.  It was as if my body would

> rather rip itself to pieces than allow those foods to be digested. 

> Well, shortly after I recovered through medication, I decided to see

> what wheat would do to me.  Dangerous, but I like to know the full

> story when it comes to my health.

>

> The result was interesting.  Wheat can no longer damage my intestines

> due to the drugs... so it manifested its bad effects in other parts

> of my body.  It causes my joints to swell painfully, and my legs,

> too.  It also makes my skin painfully sensitive.  It even affects my

> eyes... as if they, too, are bloated.  The symptoms take 2-3 days to

> leave my body after I stop eating wheat and corn.  All in all, it was

> a horrible and enlightening experience.

>

> Just thought I would share that with y'all.  It certainly provided me

> with a renewed conviction to follow the diet.

>

> sean

[Guest guest]

Hmmm...

I believe, , that you have a really good point. Did some quick

Net research, and now I'm concerned. Azathioprine seems even nastier

than Prednisone.

Here is the problem: I'm in the military. If you think doctors in

your experience are close-minded, well... military docs are a million

times worse. While they may not be motivated by money, they *are*

motivated to get troops back in the field, no matter what.

I think that it would be next to impossible to convince my doctor to

try an alternate treatment. However, I will try. I have to.

I'm currently tapering off the Prednisone, and should be off of it in

about a month. However, the Azathioprine is long-term. I'm supposed

to take it for at least two years, at which point I can decide

whether to continue.

In light of this information, do you think I still need the

cortisol? Azathioprine does not mess with adrenal function.

My current strategy is to live as healthy as possible, and hope that

I don't develope any serious side effects from these drugs. I have

to be careful because refusing medical advice, in the military,

is " very bad " . Thanks for the help, y'all.

sean