01-11-13, 09:23 PM
Many thanks for sharing your experiences chaps, they are very much appreciated and I have to have respect for anyone coping with this disease. I've heard quite a lot about the condition in the last few days plus two aquaintances of mine have broken silence and told me they are sufferers too. From what I've read, cases of this terrible condition are rising, I think it is of utmost importance that research into this is stepped up, although I'm sure that present researchers are doing their best.
I've been in touch with matey, he's chipper but bored, so I'm going round tomorrow with some 'shopping' he says he needs in, ie a large madeira cake and a bottle of 12 year old Glengoyne, I thought alcohol and stodgy cake would be adverse to his condition -but apparently not it seems.
Interestingly, one of the chaps is going to be trying (i had to write this down) 'Helminthic' therapy in the near future, they are parasitic worms which exude a substance that calms the immune system. I read that in asia hardly anybody gets colitis -unless they take stuff that kills off parasitic worms (present in 85% of population).
I've been in touch with matey, he's chipper but bored, so I'm going round tomorrow with some 'shopping' he says he needs in, ie a large madeira cake and a bottle of 12 year old Glengoyne, I thought alcohol and stodgy cake would be adverse to his condition -but apparently not it seems.
Interestingly, one of the chaps is going to be trying (i had to write this down) 'Helminthic' therapy in the near future, they are parasitic worms which exude a substance that calms the immune system. I read that in asia hardly anybody gets colitis -unless they take stuff that kills off parasitic worms (present in 85% of population).