Comments on: Measuring progress http://eatingscd.com/2008/11/02/measuring-progress/ Treating my Crohn's with the Specific Carbohydrate Diet Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:01:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul Stocker http://eatingscd.com/2008/11/02/measuring-progress/#comment-352 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:44:25 +0000 http://eatingscd.wordpress.com/?p=450#comment-352 D.B.,

My understanding is that you wouldn’t be able to tell for sure which is helping without stopping one of them. As you know, you can’t just stop the steroids cold turkey and if she’s on a tapering dose, just wait it out and see.

There is one funny thing I remember about my experience with prednisone. Back in 1986 I had to have surgery because I had a bad bleed that the prednisone couldn’t keep under control. Every time I got to a certain level in tapering from it, I would start to bleed again. After the surgery I still had bleeding. The ‘funny’ part is that I was told that the Prednisone made it more difficult for my body to heal. It took a long time, but I was finally able to taper off.

Aside from that dramatic incident back in 1986, I haven’t had a bleeding problem. It hasn’t been an issue for me since then and wasn’t when I started the SCD so I’m afraid I can’t offer you help with that question. If you pose it to the BTVC_SCD group on Yahoo, perhaps someone will have been in the same position and be able to help.

Here’s hoping she continues to progress.

-Paul

]]> By: D.Bryant http://eatingscd.com/2008/11/02/measuring-progress/#comment-348 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:51:30 +0000 http://eatingscd.wordpress.com/?p=450#comment-348 I am looking forward to cooking some of your recipes.
My 17 year old daughter has crohn’s and has been on the SCD for 6 weeks. We seem to be making slow progress – but her doctor has her on 40mg of steroids a day to help with her inflammation (CRP was 95). She is feeling better, but we don’t know if that is the steroids or the SCD.
My question for you is – did you have much bleeding with your crohn’s and if you did how soon after beginning the SCD did the bleeding stop?
(She takes 2 immodium in the morning to help her get through school – that seems to help her most of the day, but when she does go she has quite a bit of bleeding)
Thanks for the measuring calculator, we will use it every week to see how she is improving. Her score was 202.
Thanks for your help,
D.B.

]]> By: paul stocker http://eatingscd.com/2008/11/02/measuring-progress/#comment-274 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:51:20 +0000 http://eatingscd.wordpress.com/?p=450#comment-274 Kay,

I was glad to find it too. I’ve learned a lot of things even after almost four years on the diet.

How wonderful that you found the diet so quickly!

-Paul

]]> By: Kay http://eatingscd.com/2008/11/02/measuring-progress/#comment-272 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:12:34 +0000 http://eatingscd.wordpress.com/?p=450#comment-272 What a great measuring tool. Thank you for That.

My 18 year old son has been on SCD only since July and his score was a 10!

He has ulcerative colitis. But he was only diagnosed in May, we were lucky to find the diet quickly.

Kay

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