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Hi, there how is everyone? I'm new here and thought I would introduce myself. I'm a political science major and intending on going to law school. I've been diagnosed with Crohn's for 5-6 years now, and I've had quite a journey. I've been in moderate remission for two years and I don't take any medication. My only problem now is gaining a little more weight. Arriving at this state of condition led quite a journey, which I will tell.
I was diagnosed with Crohn's when I was 16. Accordingly, the specialist at the time had put me on medication. At the time, I felt fine even before medication, I didn't have any symptoms other than constipation. A few months after my original diagnosis and taking pills, which I thought I didn't need, my specialist wanted me to take heavier, stronger pills. My condition worsened, strangely right after taking his pills. Not happy with these results, my mother and I changed our specialist, who was the head of the department at that hospital. A little side note, now that I look back, why couldn't conventional medicine evaluate my life style before throwing pills down my throat? Why couldn't they tell me what to eat or what not to eat?
Fast forward a year and I'm still drinking milk daily and living a life style I shouldn't, simply because these "doctors" never educated me about another life style. At that time I stopped taking conventional medicine and started looking towards alternative medicine (which I should happen to say, is just as bad and full of baloney as conventional medicine)
After a year of living a poor life style, without knowing it, drinking and eating things I shouldn't, I end up in the emergency room due to pain, (I had been drinking lots of chocolate milk that day). In the hospital, I learned that I was lactose intolerant. They brought over a nutritionist and I received a little education from her on how I should be eating. The doctors used Prednisone to get rid of my inflammation, I thought everything was going to be fine as I felt better. My mistake, little did I know that the "doctors" are again looking for a way to get more money since prednisone gets rid of inflammation BUT creates bowel obstruction, again, why would they give people this? I found out a few months later.
3-4 months later, due to bowel obstruction, I required surgery, and was put on imuran. So, in a span of 1.5-2 years of being diagnosed with crohns, without having any symptoms, I went from symptom free to mild to severe crohn's. Being fooled by conventional medicine twice, this third time I calculated the outcome of what were to happen if I had taken surgery. Again, I found the contradiction. Crohn's disease is attracted by scar tissue, so having surgery would only cause CD to come back. Not only that, but after surgery you no longer have your small bowel (in my case). Without a small bowel one cannot absorb essential nutrients and would require more medication, or perhaps wear an external bag that carries your stool. Yes, another trap doctors use to make more profit. This time I didn't fall for it, and refused to have surgery.
I decided to give conventional medication one last try. I found a new specialist again, this time the head of the gastroentolog in Canada, he is one of the leading researchers. However, I thought that he was the leading businessman according to all the conversations he had on the phone while we were waiting for him to get ready for us. Another side note, this guy told us what stocks to buy for which drugs that are doing the best right now on the market. I laughed, and thought that my life was a near commodity, it was no more than a means of making profit for these guys who didn’t treat people like people but like profit making tools.
Anyways, my mother, who has her degree in chemistry and went to a prestigious tech school, did a lot of research and asked the doctor to prescribe me an antibiotic. Flagile and Cyprol were the last drugs I've ever taken. After taking antibiotics I felt alot better. I never did a follow up appointment, I felt I was getting better and this is all I needed to get out of the vicious cycle created by these docs. I slowly tapered my dosages, and changed my life style. I did alot of research on what to eat and what not eat. I learned not to eat raw food when I have flare ups, avoiding sugar at all times, and same with dairy. I started working out more, increasing my heart rate, getting my blood flowing, etc.. I gained ten pounds as a result.
Fast-forward again another two years to today. I'm completely pain-free, and off medication, I still have a little inflammation which goes away and comes back depending on how active I am, and how well my diet is. Lets face it, sometimes I desired a bigmac, or a little junk food. However, now as I am being more educated and learning about our sytem in my degree program I learn how I am profitting the same corporations that cause all these problems in the first place. In other words, I simply lost all appetite to junk food as I learned what their motives are and haven’t had any for the past 5 months. I no longer have any traces of junk food in my house. I am starting to experiment with Zinc and Fish oil, maybe that's all I need to get rid of that last inflammation. Right now I'm not that active, I haven't been active at all since I started university, so I'm going to take tennis lessons, and will make it a life routine to play tennis for two hours a day. After this I'm sure I will be crohn's free, and will gain weight. I’ve been active before and I have gained weight and was literally crohns free.
My conclusion of my journey until today would have to be to not trust anyone, as everyone has ulterior motives. I'm a political science major and I am doing alot of research on business ethics and the problems of capitalism and "the new economy" which we are living in today. It has come to the point where if anyone brings anything to me, e.g. conventional medicine, or alternative medicine such as that “colon cleanser” ******** I see on the market, I can easily reveal the scam that lays underneath it.
I hope to change the system and all the evidence I need for how poor our system is, is myself, as I am living evidence. I couldn’t imagine what it’s like for people suffering from autism, cancer, multiple scorocsis, and other horrible conditions. They must have it really bad within our conventional "medical" system. How can we cure our problems when we are taking pills that only cause more side effects? How can people be honest with their professions when their profession doesn’t buy them what they want, but profit does. Capitalism is a sham, forcing everyone to be consumers whether or not they’re sick or healthy, whether it is our disposible lives or some product on the shelves. The only thing that angers me more than conventional medicine and our profit led system are the people who are aware of this and use the same arguments as I do, but not to better society or solve the problem with our system, but to increase their profits. Scum bags like Kevin Trudeau who outline the problem of capitalism and the medical industry but instead of doing something about it, they merely use it as a means of profiting their own scam.
If I could leave anyone here with advice, it would only be two main things: 1) the only cure for diseases is life style and diet 2) take everything with a grain of salt, be skeptical and if you find a motive, ie. someone trying to sell something, then it usually is a scam. Your health isn't worth the profit of others.
If anyone here is living naturally without medication and controlling their Crohn's through their life style and diet, please reply to this post, I am interested in knowing what works for you and what doesn't. As for those of you who have been permenently hurt by the capitalist medical trap and have already had surgery, I offer my condolences.
I was diagnosed with Crohn's when I was 16. Accordingly, the specialist at the time had put me on medication. At the time, I felt fine even before medication, I didn't have any symptoms other than constipation. A few months after my original diagnosis and taking pills, which I thought I didn't need, my specialist wanted me to take heavier, stronger pills. My condition worsened, strangely right after taking his pills. Not happy with these results, my mother and I changed our specialist, who was the head of the department at that hospital. A little side note, now that I look back, why couldn't conventional medicine evaluate my life style before throwing pills down my throat? Why couldn't they tell me what to eat or what not to eat?
Fast forward a year and I'm still drinking milk daily and living a life style I shouldn't, simply because these "doctors" never educated me about another life style. At that time I stopped taking conventional medicine and started looking towards alternative medicine (which I should happen to say, is just as bad and full of baloney as conventional medicine)
After a year of living a poor life style, without knowing it, drinking and eating things I shouldn't, I end up in the emergency room due to pain, (I had been drinking lots of chocolate milk that day). In the hospital, I learned that I was lactose intolerant. They brought over a nutritionist and I received a little education from her on how I should be eating. The doctors used Prednisone to get rid of my inflammation, I thought everything was going to be fine as I felt better. My mistake, little did I know that the "doctors" are again looking for a way to get more money since prednisone gets rid of inflammation BUT creates bowel obstruction, again, why would they give people this? I found out a few months later.
3-4 months later, due to bowel obstruction, I required surgery, and was put on imuran. So, in a span of 1.5-2 years of being diagnosed with crohns, without having any symptoms, I went from symptom free to mild to severe crohn's. Being fooled by conventional medicine twice, this third time I calculated the outcome of what were to happen if I had taken surgery. Again, I found the contradiction. Crohn's disease is attracted by scar tissue, so having surgery would only cause CD to come back. Not only that, but after surgery you no longer have your small bowel (in my case). Without a small bowel one cannot absorb essential nutrients and would require more medication, or perhaps wear an external bag that carries your stool. Yes, another trap doctors use to make more profit. This time I didn't fall for it, and refused to have surgery.
I decided to give conventional medication one last try. I found a new specialist again, this time the head of the gastroentolog in Canada, he is one of the leading researchers. However, I thought that he was the leading businessman according to all the conversations he had on the phone while we were waiting for him to get ready for us. Another side note, this guy told us what stocks to buy for which drugs that are doing the best right now on the market. I laughed, and thought that my life was a near commodity, it was no more than a means of making profit for these guys who didn’t treat people like people but like profit making tools.
Anyways, my mother, who has her degree in chemistry and went to a prestigious tech school, did a lot of research and asked the doctor to prescribe me an antibiotic. Flagile and Cyprol were the last drugs I've ever taken. After taking antibiotics I felt alot better. I never did a follow up appointment, I felt I was getting better and this is all I needed to get out of the vicious cycle created by these docs. I slowly tapered my dosages, and changed my life style. I did alot of research on what to eat and what not eat. I learned not to eat raw food when I have flare ups, avoiding sugar at all times, and same with dairy. I started working out more, increasing my heart rate, getting my blood flowing, etc.. I gained ten pounds as a result.
Fast-forward again another two years to today. I'm completely pain-free, and off medication, I still have a little inflammation which goes away and comes back depending on how active I am, and how well my diet is. Lets face it, sometimes I desired a bigmac, or a little junk food. However, now as I am being more educated and learning about our sytem in my degree program I learn how I am profitting the same corporations that cause all these problems in the first place. In other words, I simply lost all appetite to junk food as I learned what their motives are and haven’t had any for the past 5 months. I no longer have any traces of junk food in my house. I am starting to experiment with Zinc and Fish oil, maybe that's all I need to get rid of that last inflammation. Right now I'm not that active, I haven't been active at all since I started university, so I'm going to take tennis lessons, and will make it a life routine to play tennis for two hours a day. After this I'm sure I will be crohn's free, and will gain weight. I’ve been active before and I have gained weight and was literally crohns free.
My conclusion of my journey until today would have to be to not trust anyone, as everyone has ulterior motives. I'm a political science major and I am doing alot of research on business ethics and the problems of capitalism and "the new economy" which we are living in today. It has come to the point where if anyone brings anything to me, e.g. conventional medicine, or alternative medicine such as that “colon cleanser” ******** I see on the market, I can easily reveal the scam that lays underneath it.
I hope to change the system and all the evidence I need for how poor our system is, is myself, as I am living evidence. I couldn’t imagine what it’s like for people suffering from autism, cancer, multiple scorocsis, and other horrible conditions. They must have it really bad within our conventional "medical" system. How can we cure our problems when we are taking pills that only cause more side effects? How can people be honest with their professions when their profession doesn’t buy them what they want, but profit does. Capitalism is a sham, forcing everyone to be consumers whether or not they’re sick or healthy, whether it is our disposible lives or some product on the shelves. The only thing that angers me more than conventional medicine and our profit led system are the people who are aware of this and use the same arguments as I do, but not to better society or solve the problem with our system, but to increase their profits. Scum bags like Kevin Trudeau who outline the problem of capitalism and the medical industry but instead of doing something about it, they merely use it as a means of profiting their own scam.
If I could leave anyone here with advice, it would only be two main things: 1) the only cure for diseases is life style and diet 2) take everything with a grain of salt, be skeptical and if you find a motive, ie. someone trying to sell something, then it usually is a scam. Your health isn't worth the profit of others.
If anyone here is living naturally without medication and controlling their Crohn's through their life style and diet, please reply to this post, I am interested in knowing what works for you and what doesn't. As for those of you who have been permenently hurt by the capitalist medical trap and have already had surgery, I offer my condolences.
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