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A miracle cure, or slow digestion?

Hi there

I've been browsing these forums for a while now, mostly for diet advice.

I have recently had a couple of years of almost constant discomfort with the odd month or two of seeming remission. Throughout that time I have had around six episodes of high-pain episodes.

For a year or so I masked the worse symptoms with codeine, but I think long term use of that drug is not a positive for the thing for the body or the mind.

Crohn's has been a real struggle for me as it is for everyone who has it, of course. It hit me right at the end of my 20s when I was making an extra push to get somewhere in life despite the widespread economic doom. I'm still pushing but the disease does not help matters!

For three days I was in excruciating pain and constant discomfort (it having built up), but rather than reply on pain medication as I am wont to I have been fasting. I have an exam, a very difficult one, to take in a few days, and I'd rather feel a little weak that half-dazed on codeine.

Don't worry, I have an appointment with a new hopefully helpful specialist in the fairly near future.

The thing that got me posting this evening was S&B Golden Curry Mix (mild), amazingly. Who knows it may just be a coincidence, but rather than eat a couple of boiled potatoes and boiled eggs for dinner tonight I decided to drop in just one of the chocolate-bar like herb and spice flavour bars into the mix, making sure it was well diluted. Not long after, rather than the usual pain and bloating I experience while eating, I felt my symptoms seem to abate. Since then I have been reading online about the wonders of tumeric... will it work again? Or are my symptoms just abating because they are in the mysterious way they sometimes do, and because I've had days of bed rest and frictionless white food and chicken broth?

Health is a wonder, certainly. I'm skeptical that the S&B Golden Curry Mix I have been craving but avoiding given what I assumed would be its effect is really a miracle cure, but my gosh I'm in so much relevant comfort to what I was earlier in the day that you'd think I'd smoked a filtered joint (a real miracle cure from symptoms, although hardly practical).

No doubt I will wake up in the middle of the night in agonizing pain but here's hoping.
 

scottsma

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Tynemouth,
I'm no expert but I have heard that turmeric brings positive results for a lot of people.I'm glad you have an appointment and I hope that you get the help that you need.What I will say is,everyones different and what works for some has the opposite effect for others.If you got some relief with the curry,well that's great.Try it again.Everything is trial and error with I.B.D.I'm sure someone will be along soon with more expert advice,meanwhile welcome to the forum,there's lots of help and support here.
 
you wouldnt be the first to report some improvements while consuming turmeric. but curry is at least 15 different spices. no doubt turmeric could be an active helper, but it could be many others too.
 
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