Archive for February, 2010
Diane Is Out of Crohn’s Prison
Many Crohn’s disease sufferers have told me that it’s like being in prison. They live their lives not knowing when a flare-up will occur, but there is the one certainty: It WILL happen. It’s just a matter of time.
They make sure they know where a public bathroom is in every place they go…and many times, they can’t go out at all for fear of an attack.
They take the medication their doctor gave them (typically dangerous steroids) because the doctor says that’s all they can do.
And they pray that they never end up having to have some or all of their intestines removed. (But the odds are not in their favor–3 out of 4 people with Crohn’s require surgery at some point.)
Yes, that sounds like a type of prison.
But there is a way to break free of the prison of Crohn’s. A safe, easy, natural approach that can make a 100% difference in how you feel.
I’ll let Diane tell you about it—because she ended 30 years of diarrhea from Crohn’s and is “dancing with joy”:
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I want to tell everyone about my great, wonderful, exciting news, as I’m still in complete awe of what has happened to me since I have started using Your plan!
I have had Crohn’s disease for 39 years. When I was 26 I had bowel surgery. They removed my terminal ileum (the lower part of the small intestine) and told me I would have diarrhea for life.
They were right—I did…or better yet, I was lied to. Because I have changed from daily diarrhea to normal bowel movements with your plan!
It started out weird though—it was the first time for me to ever have what I call a normal BM.” The new changes kept coming (less and less diarrhea) and I thought how did I do this? To think I spent 30 years with the diarrhea! And now it has only gotten more and more normal as I continue to eat healthy foods with your plan!
I can’t even believe how I was lied to by so many doctors telling me there was nothing I could do but take steroids and other drugs! They had me scared to death of good healing foods. Shame on them for taking an oath and not living up to it.
Together we have made a new me!
I want to shout to all the people with Crohn’s, “Stop allowing them to cut out your bowel—it doesn’t cure a thing!”
Believe me, I’m very mad at the medical community for making me so ill for so very very long!
I started researching on my own because they told me Crohn’s was inherited, but going back over 100 years in my family I see no one had this disease other then me. So they were wrong again.
Food was my enemy all my life, and now it heals me! You just have to have patience and let the healing begin.
My story seems so amazing to me—it’s like I was blind for 39 years, and now I can see.
”Dancin’ with joy”
Diane
15 Yrs of Prilosec Ended – A Shocking Story
Here’s Diane’s fascinating story about multiple medical problems and ending 35 years of pain, pills and being a shut-in:
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I am 63 year-old woman who was basically a shut-in as going out was simply too risky. My only outings were to visit my children or to church, on a good Sunday!
I was in my late twenties when I started having difficulties with my intestines. The doctor felt that an infected uterus might be the cause and I had a
hysterectomy.
The problem did not go away and more issues began. I was told I had loose bowel syndrome. It was suggested that I avoid wheat and milk. A year or so later, I was told I had a hernia. I was told to avoid seeds.
Then I became more and more sick. It took four years for them to diagnose fibromyalgia (then called fibromyositis). My own family doctor did not believe in FM and basically made me feel like a hypochondriac. After all, I had great blood work, my blood pressure was fine, I had no cholesterol problems, so why was I complaining?!
So he prescribed Motrin to help cope with the pain of fibromyalgia. I had bladder problems, digestive problems and it all was always blamed on FM.
Then the problems with acid began and, twenty-five years ago, I started taking Losec. It was then that my doctor mentioned the danger of Motrin (Ibuprofen) on the stomach. I immediately stopped taking them and decided to cope with my pain through prayers and meditation.
Prilosec also know a Losec
For the next ten to fifteen years, I took Losec. My doctor retired and I went to a new doctor. I told her about my stomach, which felt like it twisted and went into spasm when I made certain movements, so she prescribed
Domperidone for Motility. It greatly helped.
But then my bladder problems became so bad that she sent me to a urologist who diagnosed Interstitial Cystitis and told me to avoid fresh fruits and raw vegetables.
The acid problem was no longer being controlled by the Losec so, a few years ago, I was switched to a few others but, none seem to help. I was sent to see a G.I. who prescribed Prevacid and told me I had GERD.
I must say Prevacid seemed to control the acid but once I started taking them, I was catching every cold or bug around me. My doctor suggested that I needed more sleep and because I was up 10 to 12 times a night to go to the
bathroom, so she prescribed Desmopressin Acetate Oral Disintegration (DDAVP MELT).
That made a difference to my sleep and I would wake up only once or twice a night.
I also suffer from a Vestibular disorder (inner ear problem) which gives me vertigo and nausea. Nothing seems to help. I caught the H1N1 flu in September and I was sick until early January.
That was my state, two weeks ago, when I decided to give your plan a try.
Within HOURS I felt better. After two days, I took a long walk with my husband, which I had not done in months. I had energy. I quit taking the Prevacid and the Domperidone.
I cannot believe the difference this has made in my life. Last night I actually slept through the night without having to go to the bathroom.
I was out for four hours yesterday without searching for a public washroom.
I can stand wearing a bra and inches have gone around my stomach. I have lost four # yet I am not hungry. I am enjoying the fruits so much, as well as whole wheat again.
All of me feels better. I have taken long walks every two days since I started the plan.
I thank my daughter and son-in-law for answering my prayers, but most of all, I thank you for your book and your plan. This book, along with the wallet size card, and the recipe book are my favourite reading material for now!
Diane L.
British Columbia, Canada