What helps me
I have ulcerative colitis and I just wanted to write this post because when I was flaring often, I would end up on message boards and see a lot of people echoing each other, worried desperately looking for advice. Sometimes parents of young children. I don't want to give a long story here but I went through the trenches with this disease, like I know some of you have. Can't eat this, can't eat that.
Flared for a few years. I was to the point Humira 1 shot every two weeks was not working. Even the prednisone I was taking wasn't really working. Multiple bloody stools a day. I was in a bad place. Then one day I just happened to go into a grocery store in a Asian neighborhood and for some reason I bought some goji berries. I don't know why I bought them but I ate all of them. I didn't think anything of it but the next day, I felt better and for the first time in a long time I didn't have a bloody bowel movement.
I couldn't believe it. I still had some gas pressure but no blood. I then started taking about 4000 IU of vitamin D per day and the gas pressure stopped as well. That was 2 years ago and that was my last flare. I still take 2 mesalamine lialda pills per day 4000 IU of vitamin D and about 2 servings of goji berries. And, now I drink 3 cups of coffee a day, pizza, candy some times. I don't feel like I'm crippled by this stupid disease. I just wanted to share this- it's worth a shot. You're never cured they say but I feel like I am.
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