Re: UC flare question

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> Hi everyone,

>

> I'm having a mild flare and am hoping some of you fellow UC sufferers

> can give me some advice. As I mentioned earlier, I started having some

> bleeding a couple of weeks ago. I have since refined my diet back to

> chicken soup, all well-cooked veggies, easily digestible foods, etc.

> Since then, the bleeding seems less, but there seems to be more mucus

> and (not sure how else to put this) " leakage " of fluid, sometimes

> with a

> little bit of blood, throughout the day. My stools are still well-

> formed

> with 1 or 2 BMs per day (normal for me) and I'm not having any pain or

> gas.

Probably means there is inflammation, but not enough to cause

serious bleeding. Just some residual bleeding during the day.

So the trajectory is good, it will just take a while to get the full

results you want.

> My question is whether the reduction in bleeding and increase in mucus

> is a positive sign or not. I'm considering starting up my medication

> (sulfasalazine) again to see if that gets rid of the symptoms and

> going

> through the weaning process again, but I do want to give the diet a

> chance. I'm just not sure how long to wait.

Cutting dairy down significantly or out altogether will help

get rid of the mucous. (except ghee which has milk solids removed

and yogurt is discretionary. I was off of yogurt for 5 months, but

feel that going back to it bumped up my health significantly.

Although it is also possible the facts that taking a break

from it made its effects stronger when I got back on it.)

Sulfasalazine never worked for me as far as I could tell, that is,

it may have kept things from getting worse without me

being aware of it. I recently dropped the colozal (sulfasalazine)

and now just use the LDN and I haven't yet seen a worsening of

symptoms. <VBG> Don't yet know if this will prove to be

idiotic and if I should have gotten off of it more slowly. Or if the

body retains some residual of the drug which wears off slowly, so that

I may yet see worsening of symptoms.

Although I'm aware you said that you had some issues weaning off of it,

so it quite possibly worked better for you.

However, IME, LDN helps a lot more

and just generally makes you feel better. You might consider trying

that if you are going to resume medication.

Also, IME, and I think Kim M. has mentioned something similar,

for the first few years, some cyclical flaring may occur - the

thing to remember is that these flares are much less bad than

ones that occurred before SCD.

So even when you were symptom free, you may have retained

some level of the disease deep in your tissues. Or perhaps

the genetic factor kicked in and even though you had entirely

licked it, genetic factors kicked back into gear once your gut

ecology got somewhat unbalanced.

Mara