In December 2012 I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis pancolitis and I have been on SCD ever since because I believe in the power of diet to cure disease... When I was first diagnosed I was put on prednisone and that had me basically all fixed up within a few days. From there on out I only ate SCD legal foods although I must admit I cheated maybe once a month for a few months. I've also been on 4800mg Asacol HD for almost the entire time after that.

One month after completely tapering off prednisone and four months after diagnosis my symptoms began to come back... But they were tolerable and I was not in a very flexible time in my life so I didn't do much besides stay on SCD and stop cheating. I continued to have mild symptoms until about five months after tapering off prednisone at which point my symptoms started to get worse and really impact my life. So at that point I cut out eggs, nuts, dairy, legumes, and restricted fructose. I also started eating goat milk yogurt which I hadn't been eating before. None of this helped and I kept getting worse.

So later in October I decided to "restart" the diet and do it the hard way, starting with the intro diet and adding foods one at a time for three days each. By doing this I really noticed a lot of improvement... for about a month, but then I stopped improving. I still had blood but was only going once per day and was in livable shape again. But I seemed to stop getting better. After a month without any improvement, my doctor moved me down to 2400mg/day of Asacol HD because he didn't know that I was having problems (I should have told him but he doesn't believe in diet so I didn't want to). Nothing changed for another week and then I started to go downhill fast. I asked to be moved up to 4800mg/day Asacol again and I was, and I got better again pretty quickly. Another three weeks have gone by and I haven't seen improvement.

I know for a fact that SCD helps because back when I cheated I saw problems pretty quick. But I really want to put my UC in remission through diet and get off medicines, and I'm trying really hard, but it doesn't seem to be getting me all the way there. A combination of SCD and high dose Asacol seems to keep my UC mild but that's not good enough...

I need some advice... I don't know where to turn now. I'm also taking Boswellia, an SCD multivitamin, and L-glutamine, and I eat enough fish to get plenty of fish oil. I tried restricting carbs to 70g daily for about a week but noticed no change.