an amazing transformation

I've changed my diet and I believe the Lord has healed me! 

Fellow Crohn's patients, please try this out.  I am medicine-free!!

Long story short, I was hospitalized twice this summer for pulmonary Crohn's disease.  It was a horrible, painful experience that I hope no one else has to go through.  I was on steroids for three months after getting out of the hospital.  I decided enough was enough.

So I radically changed my diet.

I am not necessarily promoting anyone, but I got my diet ideas/plan from Jordin Rubin's books "Patient Heal Thyself", "The Maker's Diet", and "The Great Physician's Rx" along with a book by another author titled "Inflammation Nation."  I am not doing the extreme version of the diet in any of the books, but I'm following the basic principles and my life has improved 100%.

Here's my food plan:
Extremely limited sugar (basically none)
No high fructose corn syrup
No “white” foods: I’ve switched to 100% whole wheat flour (bread and pasta) and brown rice
No white potatoes (only b/c they irritate my stomach)
No preservatives/artificial flavors/artificial colors
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_additives
No hydrogenated oils (i.e. margarine)
No soda of any kind
No deep-fried food
No pork or shellfish (Although I don’t think these meats are sinful to eat, I do believe Leviticus 11 holds true for them being unclean.)
No cow’s milk (excluding yogurt, cheese, and butter)

If I need to sweeten something, I use honey.  I drink goat's milk.  I put real maple syrup on my whole-wheat pancakes.  This diet is liberating... especially since I am not taking shots or pills anymore!    I have learned to LOVE fruit... fruit smoothies are my new best friend.  I love vegetables, always have, and love fish.  I eat beef very sparingly.  Try lamb instead!

Try it.  Please.  If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work.  But after being on Remicade, then Humira, then steroids, this has been the greatest "treatment" so far.  I have zero symptoms of Crohn's.

I saw my GI doc on October 29 and he gave me two months to prove to him that diet could control my disease.  Otherwise he is going to start me on Cimzia injections.  I see him on January 11 and I am sure that he will not be writing a prescription.  :)