Ulcerative Colitis Stories – Colitis Symptoms, Colitis Diet, Colitis Information

Hey Everyone, I haven’t written in awhile but I wanted to update you all on how I’m doing on the SCD! So, I have just past the 8 month mark on SCD! I am so happy and proud of myself that I have made it this far. The journey to where I am now hasn’t [...]

I know SCD is supposed to be the cure-all, but I’ve been on it now since April, and had to go back onto prednisone, and am still in a flare now. I have tried my hardest, done the intro diet at least 3 times… this week, even, all I’ve eaten is chicken breast, pureéd butternut [...]

First, some background: I’ve been on the SCD since the middle of April of this year. I was also on a tapering schedule of prednisone when I started. Once I tapered off the prednisone I started having symptoms again (e.g. blood in stool, pain in lower left abdomen etc.) I believe that 1.) the prednisone, [...]

How do you know when you are getting better or into remission from ulcerative colitis?

I was Diagnosed with UC 5 years ago. I work at sea on old wooden boats and was a week away from land when the symptoms that we all are familiar with started. Sailing is very physically demanding and as the week went on, I couldn’t eat, had severe stomach ache and was passing basically [...]

I have just been diagnosed with UC after a considerably long period of regular stomach pain, a gradual increase in tiredness, dizzy spells followed by the shock of seeing blood pouring from my back passage 4 weeks ago. My trouble first started about 8 years ago around the same time as I gave up smoking, [...]

Hello! Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes……………… First off, I don’t have UC myself. It is my girlfriend who has recently been diagnosed with it. My main reason for posting here is to try and get some information and to make myself feel better! I have been [...]

Diagnosed in 1998. This is my 3rd hospital stay with a flare-up. they get worse each time. Solumedrol worked before, but is not doing the trick this time. Constant pain, blood, depression, you know the drill. Can’t take pain meds so i can be lucid enough to run to the toilet 40 times each day. [...]

For the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about and reading about the Specific Carbohydrate Diet… After a particularly tough weekend, I’ve decided to put myself on the SCD diet. Honestly, this is not something I want to do but at this point I’ll try anything. Now if you were to see me, you probably [...]

If you have ulcerative colitis, you very well may have a whole bunch of colitis flares along the way(but don’t you worry). After being diagnosed with UC a almost two years ago, I have now learned that a colitis flare might come up from time to time.(Even when I thought I had found the save [...]

Hey Guys, remember me, my name is Adam.  And guess what, I for sure have ulcerative colitis!  How do I know this?  Well, about ten doctors have told me that it’s true.  There are some medical records stashed away in a few filing cabinents somewhere of my nasty inflamed colon all red and yucky out [...]