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Regardless of your treatment, do you think that crohn's can be treated without the use of medication?
I second that! Poor Dan. But we have problems on here from time to time. :wink:Well said as usual Dan!! I liked your old sig line better but I can certainly understand your need for the new one!!
Amen, brother!! As far as I'm concerned though, you are safe here!!! Keep posting your research and personal experiences and let the adults decide for themselves!!!!It is just a matter of time before everyone in the U.S. will have to have disclaimers everywhere.
I am thinking of putting one one my car. It will read "I am now a grandfather, so please ignore the left blinker that is always on".
Dan
That diet would destroy all CD patients I know! I have doubts that the problem is CD....My husband has been in remission for about 20 years. He got Crohns as a teenager and was on meds until his mid 20's. He used to take Prednisone and was down to 140 pounds when we married. But he has taken hardly anything for years. He does take immodium once in awhile and lactaid. (He is also lactose intolerant.) And he also takes Gaviscon occasionally for acid reflux. He is very particular about what he eats, not a lot of cheese or fatty or starchy foods. He does eat a lot of meats - mostly beef and pork and a little chicken, and he loves a green salad with lots of veggies in it. He rarely eats fruit. He also stays away from citrus if possible (but he loves tomatoes) and he doesn't drink coffee. He also doesn't drink beer, but he occasionally drinks hard liquor and cola. He is even picky about what water he drinks and always drinks either water from our home faucet or one store brand. The different mineral contents in water are very noticeable to him. He goes in to get looked at once every few years and always comes out pretty clean with little or no evidence of Crohns. He also doesn't let stress bother him and doesn't keep things bottled up inside. He does tend to have a temper once in awhile though.
Yes. 100% emphatically YES! Crohns can be treated without the use of drugs. My daughter was deathly ill and wheelchair bound when she was referred to Mayo Clinic. They diagnosed her with Crohns and prescribed a regimen of Prednisone and then a maintenance drug. We chose not to follw their conventional wisdom and to treat her exclusively through diet. Today she is healed and eating a normal diet without any maintenance meds. As the old saying goes ... garbage in, garbage out. You can't put garbage into your body and expect good things to come out. As a society we have become too dependent on prescription drugs. They are not natural and they work against our body's own ability to heal itself. They don't heal the body; they simply mask the symptoms. I too had Crohns and I strongly support treating Crohns via diet without prescription meds.
When someone has a perforation and is bleeding from their gut, they give them a blood transfusion, glutamine and glucose in huge amounts, I know cause I had it happen. What are you going to say to your daughter when it happens "try a diet, you might die but medicine is garbage"?Whether or not to use prescription meds is a personal decision. From my perspective, I choose to avoid them. Meds don't heal ... they only mask the symptoms.
Medicine puts people in remission, that's what stops the scarring. I'm in 100% remission on meds, and without meds almost no one who has crohn goes into full remission. What you are potentially doing is scarring yourself which is going to lead to surgery.And as far as your comment where you said "if you don't take meds you're next visit will be talking about surgery". I could get hit by a car tomorrow too but I'm not going to worry about it my whole life.
I have to say that is a very brave choice you made, I can understand taking the risk on yourself but to make that choice for someone else especially a child that is so unwell. I am pleased for you however that she managed to get into remission and the story has a happy ending. For someone with such severe symptoms a course of pred can work wonders in reducing the harmful effects of chronic inflammation and help reduce permanent damage and scar tissue to the intestines. It also speeds up the healing process and therefore reduce a person's unnecessary pain and suffering.Yes. 100% emphatically YES! Crohns can be treated without the use of drugs. My daughter was deathly ill and wheelchair bound when she was referred to Mayo Clinic. They diagnosed her with Crohns and prescribed a regimen of Prednisone and then a maintenance drug. We chose not to follw their conventional wisdom and to treat her exclusively through diet. Today she is healed and eating a normal diet without any maintenance meds. As the old saying goes ... garbage in, garbage out. You can't put garbage into your body and expect good things to come out. As a society we have become too dependent on prescription drugs. They are not natural and they work against our body's own ability to heal itself. They don't heal the body; they simply mask the symptoms. I too had Crohns and I strongly support treating Crohns via diet without prescription meds.
Again I say that I am happy that this path has worked for you. On the other hand though I do feel it is disrespectful to imply that for those that have gone the medication path that they are somehow foolish and have taken the easy way out. Perhaps I am reading this wrong and if I am them I apologise.As the old saying goes ... garbage in, garbage out. You can't put garbage into your body and expect good things to come out. As a society we have become too dependent on prescription drugs. They are not natural and they work against our body's own ability to heal itself. They don't heal the body; they simply mask the symptoms. I too had Crohns and I strongly support treating Crohns via diet without prescription meds.
Actually yes it can. This is just one study that shows people dying from Crohn's disease and many on the forum have admitted to almost dying due to stopping medication (myself included).So, no, it will likely not kill you as a result...
Hmmm, those words are really depressing, I hope they aren't true, otherwise I will find out.I think if many people could see their intestine like they could see a wound they would change their mind in the blink of an eye.
Maybe some people are fine without medicine, but I know many end up in ER.
When you feel pain, it is not like tummy pain of a normal person, it means your intestine is filled with ulcers and inflammation. Open up google and look up crohn's disease and look at a few images of a colonoscopy, and tell me if you still feel the same way.
Another point I think many people don't seem to understand or want to understand, is that a wound has 2 ways of healing either it heals normally, or it does not heal normally and you get fibrosis, each time you have pain and the wound needs to heal you run the risk of getting more fibrosis.
People say "I don't need meds, I'm fine, I still have issues now and then". Those "issues" are the open wounds that never healed properly, and each time they heal the wrong way fibrosis increases. And you will end up in ER that way, it's not a matter of if but when.
It's not just that crohn is potentially deadly, it's that if you take no medication you are also ignoring all the steps in between.
If you decide to go off meds, at least take something like pentasa or something, completely going off meds if you still have pain is really dangerous, that's just my opinion.
I also hope that all those "This is how I cured my crohn" sites from people are banned one day, because they do not care about your health one single iota, they want your money, and none of them will be there either when the doctor tells you that the only solution is surgery.
It's interesting you keep saying this. I believe you but I had the opposite experience. My first major flair was while I was breastfeeding my baby. He was about 8 months old....when I started feeling super sick I stopped breastfeeding because I was afraid I would give him something. I thought I was dying from cancer or something! A few weeks later I was diagnosed with crohns (dr said I was an 8 out of 10).I'm not with the group who say they can cure IBD with herbal remedies and diets etc, but from my lifestyle and experiences I do believe these have a place in helping in most cases. breastfeeding sent me into a wonderful remission, but now am back to reliance on drugs. Even now though, i'm slightly better when I stick to my healthy diet and avoid certain foods than I am when I eat rthings I shouldn't. we will be stuck on meds forever, so we may aswel try to find things which lessen the amount of drugs we do need, if you find diet, or herbal remediees, or even pregnancy/breastfeeding thenn we should grab on to them while they help