Hi guys I'm new to the site and just wanted to share with you how I manage my crohns in hopes that maybe someone else can benefit from this.
I was diagnosed about a year ago and have managed to avoid taking medications so far. I was lucky enough to have a Dr willing to let me experiment with natural remedies and just let me contact her if had a flare up. When i was first diagnosed i started taking essential oils and they worked awesome for me for quite a while. I just went back to school this fall though which added a lot of extra stress to me and put me into the worst flare up id has since before my diagnosis. I started really watching what I ate (hadn't had to in a while) and increased the oils i was taking. Nothing seemed to work. A friend of mine from India told me about a seed type thing ( called Ajawin) they always used for stomach aches. i was skeptical considering this is a lot more than a stomach ache but i was desperate to try anything at that point. I took about half a teaspoon with just a pinch of black salt and add some water and take it right before bed. in the beginning id add a bit of lime juice just to help mask the taste.. kinda tastes like rotten eggs. but so worth it. it took about 4 or 5 days for the flare up to start to subside. and now i only take the seeds when i feel a bit of discomfort starting up. the seeds aren't perfect i still have the odd days of rumbling stomach and some pain and the occasional bout of diarrhia but i feel so much better than i used to and i couldn't ask for anything more.. other than to not have this disease but hey we can't have everything. I just wanted to share my story on here because i know how horrible it is to be in a flare up and id never wish that on anyone. I realize everyones symptoms are different and different remedies will work for different people but if what i take can help any of you out there that would make me very happy to know someones pain was relieved.
just to make what i take more clear.
its a little seed type thing called Ajawin, i buy it in the international food isle at supersotre for about $2 and the black salt i got from an international food store but I'm sure there are plenty of places that sell it. it was also about $2. much cheaper than most other things i could be taking
Thanks for hearing my story
I was diagnosed about a year ago and have managed to avoid taking medications so far. I was lucky enough to have a Dr willing to let me experiment with natural remedies and just let me contact her if had a flare up. When i was first diagnosed i started taking essential oils and they worked awesome for me for quite a while. I just went back to school this fall though which added a lot of extra stress to me and put me into the worst flare up id has since before my diagnosis. I started really watching what I ate (hadn't had to in a while) and increased the oils i was taking. Nothing seemed to work. A friend of mine from India told me about a seed type thing ( called Ajawin) they always used for stomach aches. i was skeptical considering this is a lot more than a stomach ache but i was desperate to try anything at that point. I took about half a teaspoon with just a pinch of black salt and add some water and take it right before bed. in the beginning id add a bit of lime juice just to help mask the taste.. kinda tastes like rotten eggs. but so worth it. it took about 4 or 5 days for the flare up to start to subside. and now i only take the seeds when i feel a bit of discomfort starting up. the seeds aren't perfect i still have the odd days of rumbling stomach and some pain and the occasional bout of diarrhia but i feel so much better than i used to and i couldn't ask for anything more.. other than to not have this disease but hey we can't have everything. I just wanted to share my story on here because i know how horrible it is to be in a flare up and id never wish that on anyone. I realize everyones symptoms are different and different remedies will work for different people but if what i take can help any of you out there that would make me very happy to know someones pain was relieved.
just to make what i take more clear.
its a little seed type thing called Ajawin, i buy it in the international food isle at supersotre for about $2 and the black salt i got from an international food store but I'm sure there are plenty of places that sell it. it was also about $2. much cheaper than most other things i could be taking
Thanks for hearing my story
