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    Apologies if it's already posted

    http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/05/21/could-compound-in-artificial-sweeteners-worsen-crohns-disease Hmmm. In a dish not a body. But interesting, nonetheless! p
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    Ok, here goes nothing..

    Ok, so after having a full 12 weeks of remission on just Aza, my old friend is back. Or at least I think it is. Watery, exploding D that just appeared one day. Maybe it was the stress of buying a new house or maybe it's just a bout of gastroenteritis?!?! Anyway, I have a stock of Elemental...
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    Still waiting to start!

    I have boxes and boxes of elemental 028 extra all ready to go in my front room. Yesterday I went for my flex-sig to confirm that the disease is still active; that Aza and Pred haven't put me into remission. Guess what? No inflammation found. I'm still on 15mg Pred so it could flare up again...
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    Horrid people DO make it worse..

    See http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2012-01-24/Study-shows-how-stress-triggers-immune-system/52764924/1 I knew it :) P
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    Genetic modification of Lactobacillus acidophilus

    Apologies if posted before. Sounds promising to me. Results: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21282652/ News story: http://www.naturalnews.com/031260_probiotics_Crohns_disease.html Paul
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    Update - not going well!

    Hi, So last time I posted here it looked like I was pretty mild. Should have guessed it was too good to be true! MRI showed 8cm in my terminal ileum and inflammatory stricturing in my descending colon prevented them looking much further via colonoscopy. I did get some lovely photos as part...
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    Terror, gritted teeth, determination (in that order)

    Hello, My name’s Paul and I’m 35 years old and living in Bristol, England. Despite having been told repeatedly that I only had a small chance of having IBD, I got the dreaded diagnosis of Crohn’s Colitis anyway. It’s probably a familiar tale: years of ‘IBS’; the occasional bit of blood which...
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