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  1. Beach bum

    Blood tests for vitamins ect.

    My gastro specialist has asked me to get a load of blood tests done to check how my vitamin reserves (such as D) are doing as well as a few other things. I am just wondering if I should hold off from taking my usual supliments for a bit before - and if so how long , so as not to give a false...
  2. Beach bum

    Goat's milk kefir

    This has been in the news alot and I heard an interview on the radio yesterday so I looked into it a bit more. I think it has to be worth a go and only £50 for a 21 day course of ready made stuff delivered. Anyone else tried it or anything like it ...
  3. Beach bum

    Packrats Dine on Poison After Fecal Transplant

    This is a very interesting read indeed. "Desert woodrats in the western North American desert frequently feed on highly toxic plants. A new study shows that their gut bacteria make it possible for them to digest those toxins, and a microbial transplant from these woodrats confers that ability...
  4. Beach bum

    A fab film about 8 ill people on a 28 day juice retreat.

    http://www.superjuiceme.com/458bnen230vdnb20bn2vnds087/ Very interesting as there is one crohn's sufferer and one colitis sufferer.
  5. Beach bum

    I must be mad - The Great North Run !

    Hello all I have just signed up to do the great North Run (which is a half marathon in September in the UK) in aid of crohns and colitis. :ybatty: I am really rubbish at sticking to a exercise timetable and I am not really a fan of running at all :lol2: I will be keeping a diary of my...
  6. Beach bum

    Hepatitis B and C test.

    Has anyone been given an hepatitis screen "out of the blue" ? I am given a form for blood to be taken the week before my Remi infusion ( they always give it to me 8 weeks before at my last session). It wasn't till I handed it to the nurse this morning that we both noticed the extra tests on it...
  7. Beach bum

    Ginger - giving me tummy ache.

    Does anyone else have trouble with ginger ? I always understood it to be good for the tummy , even settling and anti inflammatory. But more and more I notice that after ginger I get a mild ache , even a slight burning in my stomach. I used to enjoy lemon and ginger tea which I stopped , at the...
  8. Beach bum

    Juicy Reboot

    So today I am starting Jason Vales three day "Juice Reboot" with thousands of other people and boy do I need it. I am not feeling too bad at the moment as I have just had a week and a half off the booze and trying to eat healthily but before that came about a month of abuse on my poor bod. I...
  9. Beach bum

    Truly amazing Juice Therapy opportunity !

    http://vimeo.com/60211051 Jason Vale "The Juice Master" is making a science based documentary where he will help six people cure disease through juicing at his retreat in the summer, all over seen by a sceptical doctor. It is going to be great to watch let alone take part in. It sounds as if...
  10. Beach bum

    Horse meat scandal & IBD ?.

    I just had a thought today, I wonder if there is any link with this scandal and IBD . After all I have been told to avoid all NSAIDs but it is very possible that they have been putting horse meat riddled with it in our food for years :shifty: I don't really eat processed ready meals now but I...
  11. Beach bum

    Rice cakes.

    I have been feeling almost normal lately and recently went on holiday where I kind of let my hair down and ate (and drank) probably too much. But I felt really great for it. This week feeling a bit guilty and noticing I am now able to put weight on again I got in some low fat snacks for work...
  12. Beach bum

    Aza and IUD's (one for the girls).

    I recently read on one of my information leaflets that if you have a IUD (coil) that you should use an alternative as well when on azathioprine. My nurse made light of it but I seriously don't want to get pregnant on top of everything else. Anyone else heard of this or is taking extra precautions?
  13. Beach bum

    Azathioprine & back ache

    Hello I have had a bad back on and off for many years, but things have been quite good with it in the last couple. Then I started aza two and 1/2 weeks ago and for the past week I have been having terrible pain in my back and hips, my tummy troubles seem to be subsiding so it seems to be...
  14. Beach bum

    Metronidazole

    Hello everyone, :bigwave: I just started my Infliximab infusions yesterday and while I was there the nurse handed me a prescription. She said "Do you know why Dr E has given you this? No? Nor do we." It was for Metronidazole, anyone else been given this and knows why? And also as it's an...
  15. Beach bum

    Food Diary

    Hello, I am newly diagnosed but took a few months to get to the GI , so I have been doing a food diary for a while now. However I am really struggling to find any patterns at all. I don't really have any D reactions to go by. My main symptom is pain ( that I now know to be small bowel...
  16. Beach bum

    Hello

    Well after eight months of tests and speculation and trials by my own GP, including a terrible two months on Omeprazole, when I couldn't eat at all. I finally got to see a gastroenterologist who told me I had crohn's within 10 minutes of meeting him. He has since put me through an endoscope and...
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