The problem with people that try to go into med free remissions is that they don't address the root cause, which is often a bacterial and fungal component in the gut. I was guilty of the same mistake and paid the price.

If you go back 2000 years and study the history of medicine, they did treat the gut as the root cause. Documentation shows Hippocrates treated his patients with a variety of techniques that supported and strengthened the immune system. The contrary is true today - nothing good comes from suppressing the immune system, as seen by the strong adverse effect profile of biologics, immunosuppresants and steroids. The immune system needs to be bolstered, not wasted away - inflammation is a healthy response to an unhealthy process going on in the body. Newsflash, it's happening for a reason and it's not going away unless it's addressed.

Hippocrates somehow knew that bacteria and pathogens played a role and used whey and raw milk in his treatments (which was actually safe at his time). Only now are we realizing that lactoferrin, a component of whey, is essential for combating bad bugs. He KNEW this because of observation - he never violated the principles of cause and effect. He never had anything to gain from it - no big bucks, nothing.

Today, we are entering the dark ages of medicine when you look at all the statistics. Mainstream medicine can no longer be called science. It's been distorted and manipulated for financial gain. There's some level of manipulation in all of the published studies. They don't utilize proper controls; they use populations that are not representative of the people that actually end up taking the drug; they come up with bogus guidelines that would put kids, even with healthy levels of cholesterol, on statin drugs.

How many lives were squandered by vioxx? More than 60,000 people died miserable deaths for absolutely nothing. Big Pharma and the FDA have a lot of blood on their hands and it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Post Edited (StealthGuardian) : 10/18/2013 5:32:23 PM (GMT-6)

thanks everybody! for the dairy, I know for a fact that I cannot tolerate it so have cut it completely (well Im lying abit there, I still do a tiny splash of lactose free milk in my am coffee, which is just one coffee a day, helps the bm move after a long nights sleep lol). I do alot of coconut oil, coconut products (all organic, virgin, DME of course) and I know coconut is very healing and anti-fungal, as well as anti-viral. I have yet to look into whey (not really sure what it is exactly). I now eat only wild meat/fish caught fresh where Im from (Im from an area where hunting is still very much an important part of our lifestyle) (the meat is caught by my brother in laws and cut up by them so i know where its coming from and what lifestyle the animal lived, none of that factory farmed stuff for me anymore).

I know that onions and garlic are very anti-inflammatory and even more so when eaten together, so the last few days, Ive been combining both in my meals and I have to say, along with the coconut I am eating, the egg whites and cucumber, and whatever little else Im snacking on seems to be helping. The bleeding is diminishing quite abit daily, and my cramping has not come once today! (had a little yesterday, had more the day before, so its obvious the cramping has been getting better each day). As I go along, Ill be able to learn more about what foods are healing for the gut and am so determined to stick to those as best I can. Learning to eat more simpler meals takes some will-power (e.g. boiled carrots as a side dish, no mashed potatoes smothered in butter, or baked potatoes smothered in sour cream and bacon bits for this gal), I miss eating whatever I wanted, but I feel awesome and Im sure the overuse of anti-biotics and my past careless diet are what got me here in the first place..

I went into remission for over a year w/o any drugs.  I was experimenting on myself with various combinations of herbs and diet modification.  Looking at the stats and reading a lot of posts here, I decided I would just go for it and see what happened.  So lots of experimentation, lots of eliminations, lots of frustration, lots of reading, lots of taking notes, and lots of people telling me it couldn't be done.  I had no symptoms for about 15 months.  Then very very gradually, I started feeling "not quite right" and then saw some blood, then some mucous, symptoms got a little worse for a few months, but really not bad and my lifestyle didn't change.  Then very gradually, the symptoms went away again and I had another 8 months without symptoms.  Just my personal experience.

I know everyone is different.  With this disease, it seems we are radically different, but I do believe some people can achieve remission w/o the drugs.  But I also think it takes a huge leap of faith to go against everything your doctor recommends and trust that you'll figure it out.

I suspect that if my symptoms were really bad, I would be more likely to seek the meds.  But as it is, my symptoms are very mild and the meds seem a lot scarier.

Good luck you everyone, whatever path you choose.