recovery from CD, IBS, Fibromyalgia

[Guest guest]

Using the Specific Carbohydrate Diet created by Jean

Gottschall

 

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Tina recovers from CD, IBS, Fibromyalgia

 

Tina's message to support groups:-

I just want to encourage all of you by sharing my

" testimony " so to speak! I have been a part of this

group for a couple of weeks, but felt it on my heart

to help and encourage you with my past experiences.

So, here goes...

 

I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in 1994 at age

21. I was a wild child, so to speak, and did much

damage to my body during high school and college,

which did not help anything. I was very ill, and they

put me on Prednisone and then Pentasa. I shutter to

remember nights lying in my apartment, awaking

violently to vomit or have crampy diarrhea, thinking

all the while this was the last night of my life. I

thought I was literally dying, which I believe I was.

 

I was so sick, yet slowly began to get better with the

medication. The Crohn's went into remission of

symptoms, yet I still had IBS, because I had both at

the same time. Horrible! Anyway, in 1999 or so, the

IBS got very bad, almost incapacitating, sending me to

the ER many times for such painful C. I was still

having panic attacks, or seizure-like attacks at

night. This went on for a while, on and off

medications, nothing helping. In 2000, after becoming

a born-again believer, I was praying in desperation

one night for the Lord to help me and heal me, because

I was so scared, newly married etc. I was in such pain

and did not want to eat a thing. That night, I

remembered a book I had stumbled across on the

internet called Breaking The Vicious Cycle by Elaine

Gottschall. I had purchased this book a couple of

years before, but as a single person, just never tried

the diet, because I hated to cook at the time!

 

Well, that book came to my mind, and I didn't even

know if I still owned the book. We had just moved from

TN to MT, and in all the riff raff, would it still be

there? Indeed, sitting on the shelf, there it was! I

knew without a doubt, I had to try it. The next day, I

began the diet. Within a few days, I felt better than

I had in years!! I followed the diet through my whole

pregnancy and into 5 months of nursing my child. Then

I started to snitch! The diet had worked! I had and

still to this day have no trouble with IBS!

 

But the story doesn't stop there...About 7 to 8 months

after stopping the diet, not completely but snitching

lots, I began to get very fatigued and washed out. My

back began to kill me when I would wake in the

mornings, and I began to have lots of trouble

sleeping. A few months later, I was diagnosed with

fibromyalgia, a very painful illness. I took meds,

anti-depressants, pain killers, etc. Was better for a

while, then had to up the pills again. I continued to

ask God for his healing. In the meantime, my son was

developing some problems with his bowels, and his

behavior. I was praying lots, and was lead to food

allergies, glutens, dairy, etc. All coming full

circle, was lead back to the SCD.

 

Now, my whole family is on SCD. My son is doing so

well, just 3 weeks into the diet. His stool test had

come back indicating some form of inflammatory bowel

process going on, so without hesitation, we have

started, and he is OH so much better!

 

I also want to report, I am completely healed of

fibromyalgia! I don't have to take any medications to

help me sleep at all! I sleep more soundly than ever

in my life! I am slightly stiff when I eat too much

honey or too much fruit (or when it is rainy and

overcast), but for the most part, I feel wonderful.

The " brain fog " associated with fibromyalgia lifted

when I got off of dairy alone! It was amazing.

 

Yes, now we do the SCD dairy free, and I miss it some.

But that may not be forever, we shall see how we do

when we try to introduce the yogurt later. For now, we

are on our way to complete and total healing with my

son. So, I want to encourage each of you. Pray and

seek the Lord for all things, and He will show you the

wisdom He has for you. He is our Healer, and He led me

to this diet. It is a divinely inspired concept, and I

am so thankful for it.

 

I hope this helps each of you to know the worth of our

diets in our lives. I don't plan on ever going back to

sugar or starchy foods. Who knows? I may be SCD for

the rest of my life. But that would be fine. Our

health is worth it.

 

Just a note: I have been on NO medication for Crohn's

since 1996 or 97, can't remember, and I just praise

God for that. Just hang in there. This diet is truly a

Godsend, not only for the children, but if you have

any type of degenerative form of disease, IBS, or

fibromyalgia, this diet I feel confident will be a

great benefit to you as well. Abundant life and

blessings,

 

Tina previous CD, IBS, Fibromyalgia

Mom to Abraham 3 and Micah 8 months