Hiya all,
Generally I don't post on here, but this is a special night. I am doing something new that may help me live a normal (within the firms confines of Kersh-iness) life.
As you may know I have this disease called Crohn's disease. It is an auto-immune disease which causes inflammation of the small intestine. I have already had a chunk of my intestines cut out and been stitched back together (no fun at all). My GastroInterologist (GI for short, gut doctor) has told me there is an 85% chance I will need another at some point and I will live my life with constant chronic pain. Yippeeeee. To experience what my normal day is, go to Mexico and drink water from the tap, then have a rabid hedgehog sown into your abdominal cavity, Now have Chuck Norris roundhouse kick you in the gut...and know this is every day...until you die. Once Dead heaven (if you have faith in Christ) will be even better because you will go from extreme pain to extreme joy. This is the thought that has kept me going for three years.
However, I now have some hope of a pain free life on Earth. this isn't drugs, this isn't more surgery, this isn't looked on favorably by the current bureaucratic and wicked FDA. This is a diet program that solves the problem by getting to the root of it. No 'real' study has been done on it but hundreds of people inmy spot have found relief. The Diet is called The Specific Carbohydrate Diet. It is not low carb, it just eliminates bad carbs. It is sugar free, cassien free (that's a dairy thing), gluten free, cereal grain free, starch free, methel-ehtyl-bad stuff free.
So friends, I can't eat normal food. If you have thought about having us over for dinner please do so, just don't be insulted if I bring my own food. Or if you are up to a challenge here are some recipes that fit the diet.
Big question is does it work for me???? Big answer YES. I noticed that most of the gas pain was gone after the first day, My bloating subsided (not the stretch marks though). I have increased in nausea and fatigue because the diet is killing off the bad gut flora and they are very mad about it. But in the words of ICE T "die...die."
If any of you have Crohn's, Colitis, or have been labeled "ibs" or "ibd" by your doc and are tired of years of meds with no relief...try this diet out. Talk to me or any of the numerous people who are already completely healed.
Well that is all...I'll keep you posted
