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January 2011

Recently Diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis

Hey all, I was recently diagnosed with ulcerative colitis within the past 2 weeks. Since Christmas time I started having stomach issues, and I tried to do things on my own to get better and nothing was working. Finally on January 14th, my symptoms were so bad that my parents took me to the ER. I was admitted to the hospital and I had a… Read More »Recently Diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis

I’m On the GAPS Diet to Treat Crohn’s-Ulcerative Colitis and IT’S WORKING

I’m the one! YES I have been on GAPS for 11+ months to treat Crohn’s/UC and it has completely healed me and given me my life back! It’s a phenomenal diet. Reid will be interviewing me for his documentary soon and I will be talking about the GAPS diet. Here’s the short version: I am a 31 year old female who was diagnosed with Crohn’s… Read More »I’m On the GAPS Diet to Treat Crohn’s-Ulcerative Colitis and IT’S WORKING

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Making SCD Home Made Yogurt For the First Time

Well, this is actually a combination of pictures from the first and fourth time I made the SCD yogurt.  I recently received my first yogurt maker in the mail about 4 weeks ago, and it has been an absolute blast making yogurt with it. The actual yogurt maker is a Waring Pro YM350 Professional Yogurt Maker I purchased off Amazon. Why am I making  Yogurt… Read More »Making SCD Home Made Yogurt For the First Time

Do Some People Have Mild Ulcerative Colitis?

Hello to everyone in the land of UC: I’ve been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis since early 2010 and it came as a bit of a shock [the usual symptoms weight loss, blood, the yucky stuff], but since been diagnosed and after taking meds [preds, solazopyrin] my GI doc put me on Dipentum 500mgs and even though I’ve still got the aches and pains I haven’t… Read More »Do Some People Have Mild Ulcerative Colitis?

Is the GAPS Diet Another Ulcerative Colitis Diet?

“Have You heard about the GAPS diet?” That is the message that appeared from my father today, when I woke up and looked at my telephone.  To answer his question, “Yes”, I have heard of it, but up until a few hours ago, I’d never looked into it too much.  There have been a few other blogs that I follow which make mention of this… Read More »Is the GAPS Diet Another Ulcerative Colitis Diet?