Once I was diagnosed with UC, I knew that there was something that needed to be done with my diet. I mean it was only common sense to know that you are what you eat. So I stopped eating meat, ate more vegetables, fruits, grains, and gluten free, wheat free products. At first it worked [...]

Hi everyone, my name is Sara, and my mom has just been diagnosed with UC. She had a colonoscopy 2 weeks ago, and she was put on Asacol that same day. Things have gotten really bad since that day and now she can’t even keep the soup from the intro diet in her. She has [...]

Hi, my name is Ciaran [42yrs] and I live in Ireland. I’ve just been diagnosed with UC at start of April 2010, after weeks of becoming the best friend to many toilets in my local vicinity. I am really tired and feeling pretty shocked by it. On meds [pred's and salazopyrin] and was doing ok [...]

Hi, my name is Jordan Reasoner and the SCD diet(Specific Carbohydrate Diet) saved my life. I want to share my story with you and talk about what the diet did for me. It all started back in 2005 when I slowly started pooping a lot. It took me a while to figure out that I [...]

…when it’s not really definite! So , I got to see a consultant gastroenterologist last week. A very pleasant young man. He said I had Inflammatory Bowel Disease, but it was difficult to diagnose whether it was Colitis or Crohn’s, but because of some of my other symptoms, i.e. mouth ulcers, joint aches etc, he [...]

I’ve been trying another sort of diet thing the past couple of weeks.  I have tried every diet possible and none have ever worked for me… but lately I’ve been eating really bland, boring foods… think soups, chicken sandwiches, turkey sandwiches, pasta… basically anything that is soft and easy to digest.  So far it’s kind [...]

Well guys it looks like the diet works for me as today I had my first proper bowel movement with not one trace of blood and mucus. I didn’t need the loo at all yesterday and only once so far today. I just find it amazing that in a week a diet did what usually takes [...]

When are you having a flare? Here is a video with me speaking the text from below, feel free to watch it or read the full story underneath. That’s a difficult question right? Well, maybe not really. If you are taking 1-2 craps/day and then all of a sudden move towards 4-10, I think most [...]

 Do you have joint pains and colitis? I sure had that.  It’s been about six months now since it was really bad, but when those joint pains started, you’re not sure what to do.   If you are having joint pains with your colitis, you are definitely not the only one.  There are tons of us [...]

Is orange juice going to work for you and your colitis? The best thing might be to give it a try and see. I drink OJ everyday with a smoothie, but there are some people who have a hard time with drinking it.  One thing I would recommend is to drink the “not from concentrate” [...]