Dear everybody,
My name is John and I am 38 years old.
In late last year I decided to loose some weight and with the help of a dietist I started to begin the day with oats and milk in the morning. I also started to scale back on the carbs in all meals. Otherwise I have eaten quite normal for me i.e. just about everything.
In the beginning of the year I noticed that a once in a while had som bright red blood in the stool which often where quite loose but not always. The looseness did not get my attention though maybe because it has, perhaps, been like that for a while making it for me normal or I just did not take any notice of it before. I cannot remember...
In any case, the blood which seem to come late in the bowl release process. I did experience painlessly that something broke perhaps in the anus part (sorry about the graphics here). After a while I went to the doctor who really could not find anything wrong with me and the values for B12, calprotektin were fine. I have never had any abdominal pains, perhaps slight bloating but nothing that I though was unusual. It can bowl movements once every other day typically.
I did have a very traumatic thing happing in my personal life 2,5 years ago which has been a source of anxiety and stress and I do have a stressful jobb sometimes.
Now I do have some relatives with Crohn's. My sister had severe Crohn's 20 years back (when she was 22) and had to eventually surgically remove her large intestine. My mother has also been been diagnosed with Crohn's and have had a milder form of it for a couple of years now.
The obvious genetic component here made me ask for further tests and a colonscopy were performed because I was insisting. The colonscopy showed at first nothing but showed further up some signs of mild form of Crohn's. I then got all kinds of tests done, which results are not in yet, and I am going to the scan for the small intestine as well quite soon.
Now I got a little bit scared which I guess everybody gets when getting this bad news.
The good thing is that it is mild, the bad thing is my family history. The other good thing is that there seem to be a wealth of knowledge from Crohn's suffers what to use and not to use when it comes to medicine, foods, supplements and exercise. The bad thing is that doctors are very stuck in their western ways it seems like.
I am myself a researcher and have been doing cancer medical research. I have a background in biochemistry, functional foods, physiology, immunology and molecular biology. Needless to say I do think I should have some insight into the subject even though I have not been studying Crohn's specifically.
What I have starting doing is to read a lot about different dietary changes. This involve increasing such things as they are either antiinflammatory or even proven TNF blockers: coconut oil/milk, cannabis (cannabidiol), vitamin D, omega 3, ispagula husk (?), aloe vera, nettle leafs, spc flakes (protein AF inducing), Magiform (protein AF inducing), probiotics, Se, Zn, L-glutamine, curcumin, colostrum, green tea extracts, bromelain, bosweilia extracts, licorice extracts, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), cat's claw. What to avoid is carbs in general especially grains and perhaps milk even though I no not think I am intolerant to milk... I am north European and it is not that common to be here and none of my family that I now is.
It would be great hearing about other peoples experience with these different agents. Which ones work and which does not?
Cheers,
John
My name is John and I am 38 years old.
In late last year I decided to loose some weight and with the help of a dietist I started to begin the day with oats and milk in the morning. I also started to scale back on the carbs in all meals. Otherwise I have eaten quite normal for me i.e. just about everything.
In the beginning of the year I noticed that a once in a while had som bright red blood in the stool which often where quite loose but not always. The looseness did not get my attention though maybe because it has, perhaps, been like that for a while making it for me normal or I just did not take any notice of it before. I cannot remember...
In any case, the blood which seem to come late in the bowl release process. I did experience painlessly that something broke perhaps in the anus part (sorry about the graphics here). After a while I went to the doctor who really could not find anything wrong with me and the values for B12, calprotektin were fine. I have never had any abdominal pains, perhaps slight bloating but nothing that I though was unusual. It can bowl movements once every other day typically.
I did have a very traumatic thing happing in my personal life 2,5 years ago which has been a source of anxiety and stress and I do have a stressful jobb sometimes.
Now I do have some relatives with Crohn's. My sister had severe Crohn's 20 years back (when she was 22) and had to eventually surgically remove her large intestine. My mother has also been been diagnosed with Crohn's and have had a milder form of it for a couple of years now.
The obvious genetic component here made me ask for further tests and a colonscopy were performed because I was insisting. The colonscopy showed at first nothing but showed further up some signs of mild form of Crohn's. I then got all kinds of tests done, which results are not in yet, and I am going to the scan for the small intestine as well quite soon.
Now I got a little bit scared which I guess everybody gets when getting this bad news.
The good thing is that it is mild, the bad thing is my family history. The other good thing is that there seem to be a wealth of knowledge from Crohn's suffers what to use and not to use when it comes to medicine, foods, supplements and exercise. The bad thing is that doctors are very stuck in their western ways it seems like.
I am myself a researcher and have been doing cancer medical research. I have a background in biochemistry, functional foods, physiology, immunology and molecular biology. Needless to say I do think I should have some insight into the subject even though I have not been studying Crohn's specifically.
What I have starting doing is to read a lot about different dietary changes. This involve increasing such things as they are either antiinflammatory or even proven TNF blockers: coconut oil/milk, cannabis (cannabidiol), vitamin D, omega 3, ispagula husk (?), aloe vera, nettle leafs, spc flakes (protein AF inducing), Magiform (protein AF inducing), probiotics, Se, Zn, L-glutamine, curcumin, colostrum, green tea extracts, bromelain, bosweilia extracts, licorice extracts, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), cat's claw. What to avoid is carbs in general especially grains and perhaps milk even though I no not think I am intolerant to milk... I am north European and it is not that common to be here and none of my family that I now is.
It would be great hearing about other peoples experience with these different agents. Which ones work and which does not?
Cheers,
John
