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This is excellent news. I am slightly ashamed to admit that an ex-g/f once convinced me to go to a homeopath to try and treat my Crohns, and back then I was com
by mb_72 10y ago
This is excellent news. I am slightly ashamed to admit that an ex-g/f once convinced me to go to a homeopath to try and treat my Crohns, and back then I was completely ignorant of what that meant. Some hundreds of dollars later and a couple of weeks of taking some alcohol with water, carefully measured out in a teaspoon daily, I began to finally realise I'd been had. I wince now, but that was the first time I looked up information on homeopathy. Now, I'm not hugely intelligent, but I'm no dummy either, and have a reasonable education and understand of science, the scientific method etc; through pure ignorance I ended up handing over some cash and having a little bit of hope my health would improve. If there is something staring people in the face, people who are in my position might save their money and time.
FWIW, the only reliable 'treatment' I've found for my Crohns is pizza. And I guess even this is 99.5% psychological!
- SixSigma 10y agoMy Crohn's went into total remission as soon as I stopped consuming alcohol.
- mb_72 10y agoI never drank when I was first diagnosed, and didn't for some years afterwards. Now I sometimes do, but whether I do or don't there is no noticeable influence on my illness. Still, if you have found something that seems to work, you have nothing to lose by keeping at it (except if you love a beer!)
- SixSigma 10y agoI love beer. But I love not spending days in hospital more. :)
- coryrc 10y agoNot that this is the place for it, but look up hookworms and fecal transplants for actual treatments. Though pizza sounds far more enjoyable.
- mb_72 10y agoThanks, yes, I have those things on my 'to monitor the progress of' list. Fortunately I've had a very good specialist doctor the the 15 years of my diagnosis, and he is happy to share 'research is going on in the area of...' information with me, those topics included.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoYeah the big problem is that it's sold in the drugstore right next to real medicine. It really baffles me. I used some Zicam because it was in my parents medicine cabinet and I didn't really think about it, just said "shortens duration of colds? Uh, OK, I guess I'll try it." Didn't even occur to me it wasn't real medicine! Well turns out Zicam contained zinc that destroyed some people's sense of smell! Uhhh... Whoops. I feel like a damn fool, I feel I should have known better and looked at the fine print. I went and assumed something packaged and sold as medicine was medicine.