It’s been over a month since last time I wrote here. I am feeling ok the whole period with no medication. I am eating almost normal. I still eat brown rice and more veggies than normal people. I eat wood ears once a week. I eat out in restaurants since I am coming back more to the social events. I went out hiking or rafting almost every week. I ate some spicy food a couple of times. Got nervous and did felt discomfort, but don’t see much worsening and my stool is ok. I am much better than I was diagnosed. And without medication, I am feeling better than I had heavy medication before. I am ...
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Just my routine check back on my week#7, everything seems good with no med. I am still avoiding dairy and all spices. no garlic, no vinegar. Vegi twice each day. I am still using Ve enema though. I’ve been under stress lately and sleep less than 7 hours. Although this was a big factor for me in the past, now it seems that I am holding up ok. I mentally adjust myself to relax. Sheldon, for whatever reason, I believe that this time it’s working for me. I will stick to the diet and procedure, more strictly if possible for another 5-10 months. I will also keep reporting back here. I also do t ...
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Hi, it’s been the week 6 for me now. I am still doing the procedure. I went out on a vacation and eat ”forbidden food”, icecream and barbeque ribs. Other than that, I ate boiled lobster, asian cuisine, veg+shrimp. I also started to eat high-fiber bread in the morning. I felt immediate gas and discomfort aftter I ate icecream. But it went away after that night. Other than last weekend, I still keep eating vegetables and wood ear, I fried them. My stool is still firm and with no visible blood. I ate steak a couple of times, since I felt that I need some protein. I like tofu, but had bad expe ...
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Hi Sheldon, thanks, I will try that. But based on my own experience and reality, I really can’t be 100% compliant to the diet. I will keep the procedure longer than 3 months if it takes and watching closely with my own reaction.   [End]
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Hi Momfer, during your 4 month remission, 1) how long have you been sticking to the diet, then start to eat something else? 2) What’s majorly in your change diet? 3) How long have you been using the Ve enema every night? 4) Have you noticed anything before the flare? Thanks.   [End]
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Thanks for the reply. I was never in a remission for that long before, even under the pred. What you mentioned is very important to me. I will definitely be more careful with the diet. Could you also share what did you eat after 1.5 month? And what’s the warning symptoms you feel before it came back? Thanks.   [End]
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Hi just want to share some experience. I tried this procedure 10 months ago. It didn’t help that much, and the obvious symptom is dramatic loss of weight and feeling a bit more sleepy during daytime. Then I went through a couple of flare-ups, and end up taking pred for half a year. My reaction to pred is not that terrible. But at a point that I decided to pick up the enema procedure again 4 weeks ago. I’ve been clear of any medicine and eat as much as vegatible as possible, and use vitamin E enema every night. I am feeling that it’s under control, but I still have to wait for longer to ...
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I started to see some blood in stool on saturday, and it kept coming till this morning. The BM still counts 2 per day. 2 things might be the root cause, one is a cake I ate friday evening, the other is yogurt and VLS #3 I ate the morning of saturday. number of BM didn’t change. I stopped eating yogurt and probiotics right after the symptoms, and continue to eat the steamed veggies and fry-boiled brown rice with celery, cucumber, squash, onion, carrot and mushroom.   [End]
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nothing to update, diet and bm remain the same. only complains is that stool is formed but not really as firm as normal.   [End]
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I am not sure which trick makes it, but I haven’t seen blood for two days. I am eating exactly the same thing I described previously. BTW, I also eat steamed veggies and 2 boiled egg white in the morning. I am feeling less gas and less urgency. But I also can feel that I still have some inflamation and not healed. I personally feel that added olive oil and boiling rice did the trick. The cake I tried might have helped because it also have fat. My idea is the fat is essential to form the stool, it stick things together and make the walking in the colon smoother. Also the fat is essential fo ...
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What I am trying actually has nothing with taste. I am changing the cooking because I think the brown rice, especially when left in the fidge for a while, might’ve been too hard for my colon, so I boil them instead of steam or microwave them. Steaming doesn’t make it softer, while boiling and simmering do. Added olive oil to fry is because first I do believe that my body needs good cholestrol and fat, the food will get less iritative cooled with oil, smooth the veggies down. And eating a piece of cake based on the thought that maybe people reacts to suger differently. my colon might need s ...
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I am having 2BM per day and less red in stool. I changed the way I cook since sunday. I add carret and onion and olive oil to a fry, then add cucumber and squash cubes and mushroom slices, fry for a couple of minutes, then add cooked brown rice for a 1-minute fry and then some chicken broth or simply water to boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes, so the rice is soft. Last night, I boiled some chicken drums and sliced the meat and added it with the veggies to the fry. This seems getting me less gas and my BM feels better. I also eat a cake after lunch yesterday and today. Don’t get any negative ...
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Last night, I brought the leftover brown rice, squash and cucumber cubes and mushroom with some leftover boiled pork ribs to a pot and water fried. this morning, I had 2 boiled whole eggs and steamed cauliflower, squash and cucumber with brown rice. Lunch is boiled pork ribs with steamed cauliflower, squash, cucumber on top of brown rice. I saw blood in stool this morning. My BMs seems usual, 2-3 times a day, yesterday, 2 in the morning, none after that. This morning, I had 2. I had something wrong at lunch, I happened to eat some canned salmon, which later I found out is smoked with some ...
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last night, I ate steamed veggies of same combination, brown rice, 1 hour later, I ate boiled Chinese carbage (Bai Choy) with pork rib soup, the rib was boiled for 2 hours, I ate 3 small pieces of pork rib, they are very well cooked. This morning I ate steamed brocolli and squash, a bit of cucumber and turnip. Today’s lunch is brown rice and Bai Choy (leftover of last night). I reduced entocorte for a while, the flare-up started at the last weekend. I then increase it back to 1 pill a day, (orig was 3 pills a day, reduced to 1 pill/per 2 days). So, I had one pill yesterday, and colozal 3 ...
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I only eat the same combination of veggs, I only drink boiled water or distilled water. There is no change in the diet. The doctor can’t find out food allergy types. I went there today, had blood test. He recommended increase doze of entocorte. I will call him if the increase doesn’t bring the symptom done.   [End]
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I think I am having a flare-up again. The number of BM didn’t change, but there are a lot more blood in the stool. I ate the same, but it went worse in stool, so the procedure is not helping at this point at all. I increased back the entocort I was weaning, and see if that could make a difference. I have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow, for normal meeting no examination scheduled. But I will try to discuss with him to work out a method to better treat this. I am planning to try this procedure till december. If it doesn’t help, then I will try other alternatives. I didn’t try other v ...
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I still see some red in stool last night and this morning, but if it’s a flare-up, then it’s much better than before. Since during the day, I have some BM with no red at all, and even when I see it, it’s not all red like what happens before. So, hopefully, this is improvement. But as long as I see red, it’s not good. Hopefully, I could bring it under control soon. I am still eating the same diet, with salmon and egg white. Last night, I boiled pork rips for 2.5 hours, and plan to eat the meat and use the soup for some nutrition. I haven’t added any new veggies, planning to keep the same co ...
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Any good brand of probiotics recommended? I read today about fermented foods such as miso, tempeh, soy sauce and yogurt ”are renowned for their health-boosting qualities. They introduce active probiotic cultures that help wedge out unfriendly bacteria by competing directly with two main food poisoners: the toxic strains of E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus.” So, could the soy sauce be used while preparing food? Any idea or experience with 6MP? The new doctor I went to suggested it. What’s side effect and does it have a more negative side effect than pred (steroid)? Did anyone go to re ...
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I had a couple of meals with steamed veggies and streamed salmon. The stool seems a bit watery. I saw some red color last night, and had a bit swelling feeling. Not good sign. My meals are not pretty much same all the time. Veggies plus either salmon or egg white as protein. I hope that I could stay in control. But will keep posting. Also, for anyone who had a total remission, do you feel your urgency went away totally and stool is alway formed and firm? What’s the major evidence of ”total remission”. If I took the doctor’s schedule to try pred for 2 weeks, should I worry about developin ...
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Thanks Sheldon, I will decide if I want to do this after I saw the other doctor next week. Anyone had experience with predisone and asocol? Within 10 days, any side effect shown to your experience, how bad it is, does the side effect go away right away after stop using it? His predisone schedule is 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1. asocol, 3x4/perday Thanks.   [End]
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I saw a bit B again on the toilet paper and stool. Stool still formed, no visible B. I was having some canned chicken breast at lunch, and thought, it might have something to do with it. I will cut it off today. Just wonder whether proteins from egg white and salmon is good enough nutrition to the body. I am pick up a small amount of upper body practice. I am still a bit under weight, but can see growing some mucles lately. I am still walking 30 minutes per day and ~30 minutes taichi. The doctor said that if I took predisone for 10 days, it will push me into a total remission. And I can s ...
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didn’t see any blood last night, and this morning. Still on the same diet. I went to another doctor this morning, he suggested to use predisone + asocol. I told him about the method I am using, he said I am reinventing the wheel to cure it, and shouldn’t be doing that. Well, the wheel of my previous GI didn’t carry me to anywhere better. But he did say that my current symptoms are confirming positive. So, I will just leave his prescription aside, and continue my method as long as I can improve. I will see another doctor next week, he is closer to my office. Now I think for a GI, the best ...
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I saw a bit red in the stool this afternoon. I added some leaf veggies last night which might be irritate to my colon, other possibilities are reduction of medication, taking lotus root powder paste last night, it’s a bit sweet. So, I am going to terminate all these suspects. I will add white turnip to the steaming plate. Brown rice and pearl barley + salmon + egg white. I’ll stick to this diet for a couple of weeks, then try add some other food.   [End]
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I also just started but a while longer than you, so would like to share the experience. I go to work everyday and have a compact schedule, so now to best fit the diet into my schedule, I bought 4 big plastic storage boxes, and process the veggies into small cubes or slices all at once, it would take a whole hour or more, but will last for 3+ days. I have a large size steaming pot, put a plate, then toss the veggies layer by layer. I am only using brocolli, cauliflower, cucumber, squash, carrot, celery, asparagus. My experience is that brocolli is most effective to help formed stool, cucumb ...
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Any experience with TOMATO while doing this procedure? I noticed that it was not in your recipe. Any reason why it’s not included and what’s the proper way to cook it if I want to add it to my meals? I am reducing the steroid from 1/per day, to 1/per 1.5 days. I am reducing colozal from 9-12 pills a day to 6 pills a day. If I see negative symptom, I will increase.   [End]
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My prescriptions are entocorte and colozal, entocorte is steroid, colozal is anti-inflamatory. Would either of them will have negative effect on colon healing? I am planning to reduce the doze of them to facilitate the healing. I had egg and steamed veggies for breakfast. I now have two lunches, one with steamed veggie, the other has mushroom and brown rice.. I added protein because I lost too much weight in short time since I started this procedure, majorly because diet changed to steamed veggies. I am gaining some weight now.   [End]
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I’ve seen no blood since friday. And major BM shows formed stool, which is less than once each day. I stil have 2 extra stools which mostly passing gas and liquid. I ate high protein these days (steamed salmon or fresh fish). I didn’t changed my combination of veggies. I ate the amount more than regular. Sometime I feel that gas in the colon. But the stool came out ok. I didn’t drink veggie juice as I planned to, because steamed veggies don’t bother me so far. I had fish yesterday. Today, I boiled pork steak chops, and used the soup to boil mushroom, carrot, and onion, along with the some ...
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A major BM shows red stool in the late morning.   [End]
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I believe I am seeing improvement. I had not see blood since yesterday morning, I didn’t have major BM since yesterday either. This change happens after I changed Vitamin E, not sure if they are related. Here are my meals: 09/14 breakfast, 2 boiled egg whites, small steamed veggies. lunch, steamed salmon with steamed brocolli, squash, cucumber, asparagus, mushroom. dinner, same combination of steamed veggies, Huaishan (chinese herbal yam) steamed with boiled pork chop, I left the pork chop out, and drink the soup. No ingrediants except salt. 09/15 breakfast same combination of steame ...
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Is onion ok? I hesitated to use onion because I am allergic to chilly food. I am wonder whether onion taste could irritate my colon. I had 4 BMs already and noticable more blood today. I don’t think it’s caused by the vitamin enema I started last night. I will do it at least till the weekend. I purchased another brand of Vitamin E and will take steamed salmon, mashroom, turnip, corn tonight with brown rice. I am also planning to drink vegetable juice tonight, celery, beet, cucumber, squash, green sweet peper. And use the enema. I will visit a new Gastroentriologist on friday to get a sec ...
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How do you cook the salmon and chicken? What’s the NOT-TO-DO while cooking salmon and chicken? I started enema again last night. Actually, added one time to the stool this morning, and still red in stool. I will continue the procedure, and report my reaction. I ate boiled egg white and a little steamed vegie in the morning. My lunch box has the steamed brocolli, cauli, lotus stalks, cucumber with brown rice.   [End]
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1. About meat - Should I eat chicken or salmon or any kind of meat while I am seeing blood from stool? Which one should be the safest way to cook them? I read from sheldon’s posting about grilled salmon and chicken, but are those suppose to be hard and difficult for the colon? Any real experience? What about canned chicken and tuna? I have them easily available at work place at lunch hour. I tried canned tuna before, but stopped worrying the mercury issue. I tried boiled chicken, and steamed fish. The purpose is to try to add a few pounds and protein. So far, I am still under weight and am ...
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Sorry that I dropped off the posting. First I changed my computer and took me a while to restore my previous setting, secondly, I took on a trip for 2 weeks. Here is the updates that hopes to be helpful. I first stopped enema treatment because of 2 reasons. 1. I lost two much weight once started the precedure. I lost 25 Lbs since July 13th, I was 160+, I was 145 before I left for the trip, then lost 10 more Lbs from the trip. When I stopped enema, I followed Sheldon’s food recipe as close as possible. I gained around 3 Lbs in the past week by eating more meats (fish and chicken). 2. I sus ...
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This is a tough week. I was on diet of total steamed veggies and brown rice. But got blood in stool every day. I lost more than 15 pounds since started the procedure in less than 4 weeks. My steamed veggies consists brocolli, carrot, turnip, cauliflower, zucchini squash, green leave vegetables, mushroom. I eat one whole egg every morning. My bowel movement during the working day is only once, but I developped a lot of gas that could create some urgency. I went to stool once every morning just for some liquid to come out. I went once or twice at night. Last night, I went a couple of times ...
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I just received the #0551 vitamin E 1000, the color seems quite different from anyone I had before, marked with caremal color, like dark mixture. Just want to confirm with you that whether this is the one you recommended. I am restarting my enama. Also when you say I should eat all kinds of grain, what kind of grain do you mean, I thought your diet suggest stay away from grains, only eat barley and brown rice. If you think I can eat grain, how about the whole grain bread? Thanks.   [End]
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I’ve decided to pause my procedure at this stage. I’ve felt that my current situation was caused by an infection in my colon introduced by the enema procedure. And the blood is still visiblable. So, I am stopping the procedure. I carry on the veggie diet and will see doctor next week. I’ll determine what I will do next after that. So far, I believe that I’ve followed the diet and intruction pretty close, I excluded some food such as potatoes, etc due to the negative effect in my experience. But the result is clear that I am not a perfect candidate for the procedure. I am willing to try thi ...
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Diet: Steamed brocolli, cauliflower. Water fried bitter cucumber (this seems something new but had good effect to me). Brown rice. Pearl Barley. Good: It is clear that I’ve reduced my number of B moves. Less urgency. Bad: Blood in stool, watery unformed stool. Tips: Drink less water, more chewing job, a bit of taichi. In the past 3-4 days, I feel that I was on the verge of flare-up. Blood at least once in the stool. Although I’ve restricted my diet to only steamed brocolli, cauliflower and brown rice, I can’t stop the symptom. It got a bit better since yesterday. Today, I didn’t feel g ...
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I take some salmon (steamed, no ingrediant except salt) with brocolli and cauliflower last night then I see blood in my stool this morning. This makes me hesitant to add fish to my diet. But I do feel that I need more protein and energy from diet. So, I have to figure out an alternative diet.   [End]
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Thanks for the reply, I am actually a bit confused about the choice of Vitamin E to use. Could you confirm that the one I got from Puritan’s Pride (in my posting) is the right one? In your other posting (http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=83&i=347), you mentioned that ”natural vitamin E capsules containing (d-alpha plus beta,gamma and delta tocopherols”. The one I got labeled 100% natural but doesn’t mention anything about beta, gamma and delta. I didn’t eat anything other than the one I listed in my posting, I cook mostly by steaming, the only ”wrong” thing I could think of is the potato ...
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I had some symptoms of flare-up for about 3 times, but they didn’t go further to server and last, normally got better the next day. I also found that adding potato is bad for me. So, I have to cut it off. I added chicken, seems not so well, I picked chicken drumsticks though, maybe chicken breast could make a difference? I boil the chicken and slice it when it’s cooled. I am using Puritan’s Pride - 100% natural e-400 d-Alpha Tocopheryl USP ( on the facts, it indicates (as d-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate). Sheldon, could you confirm that this is the correct one? I am also trying to limit my sp ...
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A few update: 1. I lost about 5 pounds since I started procedure. I didn’t have symptom of losing weight from my colitis before. 2. I feel wanting to sleep more. Not as sobre as before when I got up in the morning. 3. I started to feel a bit sensation in bladder, had kidney stone before. I don’t know that whether this is related to my diet change and procedure. Just trying to be ”honest” to record everything frankly. Last night I saw more blood sign in stool, got a bit worried. But today’s stool is fine. My early morning stool was delayed to 10:30am, I can see enema remains with no b ...
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Label of vitamin: E-400 IU, d-alpha, Gamma, Beta, Delta Tocopherols. I will cut tofu and use boiled eggs, and probably eat more steamed fish and chicken, and get a streamer for the veges. The challenge for me is that I have to bring 2 meals to work, I have to microwave them, I am not sure how much that will damage the already well-cooked veges. I understand frying as you mentioned is not good. What I did is boiling brocolli, cauliflower and carrot then only use the frying pot to mix them with heated olive oil quickly. Again, I very much appreciate your reply, I will look into the suppleme ...
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(I started a week ago. I moved my post from another thread.) I decided to start Sheldon’s method today and will keep posting my progress. I am just back from my 5th flare-up and still have loose stool with little blood mucus in it. Feeling burning pain at anus. I bought the following: 1. bulb ear syringe 2. Vitamin Shoppe E-400iu 3. distilled water. My UC history. I am 36, male. I am diagnosed UC in October, 2005. I could vaguely remember that I had a food poison 3 years ago and developed allergy since then, don’t know if it all starts from back then. Flare-up happens e ...
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I decided to start Sheldon’s method today and will keep posting my progress. I am just back from my 5th flare-up and still have loose stool with little blood mucus in it. Feeling burning pain at anus. I bought the following: 1. bulb ear syringe 2. Vitamin Shoppe E-400iu 3. distilled water. The following is my UC history. I am 36, male. I am diagnosed UC in October, 2005. I could vaguely remember that I had a food poison 3 years ago and developed allergy since then, don’t know if it all starts from back then. Flare-up happens every 2 months, now just done with my 5th one. Symptoms ...
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I decided to start Sheldon’s method today and will keep posting my progress. I am just back from my 5th flare-up and still have loose stool with little blood mucus in it. Feeling burning pain at anus. I bought the following: 1. bulb ear syringe 2. Vitamin Shoppe E-400iu 3. distilled water. The following is my UC history. I am 36, male. I am diagnosed UC in October, 2005. I could vaguely remember that I had a food poison 3 years ago and developed allergy since then, don’t know if it all starts from back then. Flare-up happens every 2 months, now just done with my 5th one. Symptoms ...
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I took this for about 3 weeks on month ago after a flare-up. The side effects to me are apparent 3 days after I started taking them which are growing a lot of pimples on face, neck and chest, feeling itchness on the leg and back. The effectiveness of controling my UC symptom is not as obvious. I was diagnosed in October 2005 as UC. The flare-up happens every 2 months, now it’s my 5th time. I am taking colozal, entocorte, Ferrex. My UC majorly locates at the end of my colon. I am kind of disappointed to the treatment that my doctor directed. I am going to try Sheldon’s Vitamin E and diet. H ...
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