SCD Day 7

John:

Medication: 10MG Prednisone, 40MG Lialda, SCD Probiotics, ProZymes

Passings: 1
9:10AM It finally came all out of me, and I experienced urgency, but not the diarrhea type of urgency. When I finally went, everything came out pretty normal looking, but there sure was a lot! All of the food I ate finally caught up to me and came out at once, but it looked like a good Bristol 4 in some chopped up bits, so I was happy about that. I don't think I saw any diseased looking parts to the stool.

How I Feel: I'm hoping things will keep evening out. The goal is to NEVER see undigested fat or yeast in the stool. Sometimes I feel and hear my stomach making noises, and though I know it's nowhere near as bad as before the diet, with every little noise, I am always a little worried that something is going wrong in me. It's not fun tweaking the diet, but I suppose it's necessary. For example, I would like to keep eating honey and fruit sauces and drink grape juice. It would bum me out if I had to cut back on the amount I've been consuming, which isn't even a lot. Since my passings are leveling out to once a day or so (which is a blessing of course) the thing that stinks about that is that you have no idea what your next stool is going to look like, and it's always exciting to see if you're getting better or worse from the looks of it. Pretty gross, but besides frequency of going, actually seeing the stool is the only way to know what you need to tweak in the diet or try differently. It's the only way to know what you need to hold back more on, or how much more you can get away with. I'd love to up my fruit intake.

Food: Eggs for breakfast. All we do is scramble them since that's basically the easiest way to make them. Lunch was Tilapia and jello. Dinner we bought chicken breasts which were great, but sadly the portions weren't big enough. We also made apple sauce with cinnamon and honey. It came out AMAZINGLY! We figured apple sauce is the same as pear sauce, so we went ahead and made that to eat instead of pear sauce without waiting those 4 days to try a new food. The book basically showed that apples basically had the same "phenol" rating as pears. Tastes better anyway. Tomorrow we will introduce Homemade Almond Milk. I'm excited about that, and hope that everything goes well with it!