Thanks for the responses. I actually started making bone broth a couple weeks before discovering SCD Lifestyle. Or let me be more precise, I mistakenly thought that SCD didn’t apply to me as I only tested positive for wheat, gluten, milk products, eggs and a few other things in January.
Two weeks ago I did get a heads up after listening to Elaine Gottshall’s lecture on youtube. I realized that must be it! And there are some improvements, though small, over about 10 days.
I have a strange problem, it’s as though my guts are metabolizing the supplements that I desperately consumed in order to get some relief, like coming through my skin as well. That’s why I asked about the collagen. I might not take it right now as I am afraid to ingest any powder or supplement. The bone broth is GREAT and I have frozen part of the big batch I made, actually in a pressure cooker.
Milk and wheat sensitivity made a lot of sense since I was disastrously bottlefed as an infant and was a child during the “milk is good for you” campaigns of the 50’s and 60’s. And there were plenty of digestive problems from childhood. In fact, I am amazed that I have survived so long with a steady decrease in overall health and digestive function.
Oh, and I was hospitalized twice for anemia. Did anyone link up the dots? No!!! There was some suspicion that diet might have something to do with it all and I tried just about every conflicting diet known to man.
They say madness is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. As I am married to a Japanese, we happen to consume a lot of rice. So what could be wrong with that? I cut out rice now for the first time in my addled history. I got rid of bread six months ago so have been easing into this diet as it were.
I also feel a kind of shock relief as when you just miss being in a car accident because this could have only gotten from worse to worst. The problem here this adrenal seesaw has been going on for a long time. I feel I have a certain amount of PTSD from all the upheavals and downslides of this condition all these years, mental and emotional exhaustion. The little comforts that I might have fallen back on like sweets and even alcohol, now are not available so I am even more fidgety at times.
Presumably with better health I won’t miss them. Thanks for listening… Janet

Hi Janet. You can certainly try the collagen, as it does have many gut healing properties. In addition to diet and lifestyle changes, as well as other necessary supplements, we have seen collagen assist in healing the gut.

HI Janet, thank you for reaching out! I apologize if we were unable to get to your question a while back. Here is a great article on Bone Broth (collagen):scdlifestyle.com/how-to-make-nourishing-beef-bone-broth-to-heal-your-gut/ Please let us know if we can help in any other way!

Thanks,
Marjorie

Update: As of August 1st, 2012, I am back to normal. I have no pain. I can lift my bikes on my car no problem. I believe it is a combination of the Class 4 Laser therapy, the Stem Kine supplement, the herb muscle pain supplement for occasional overkill use, and the traditional massages had to relieve body stress in the shoulder area–all–which got me to be back to pain free state. My ortho doctor had told me that the pain would alway be there in the shouder area/arm elvating downward and I had no option to deal with the nightly and daily aches other than surgery which I declined to do unless absolutely necessary. Insurance didn’t pay for the extra stuff yet that wasn’t a concern. It may not help others yet if a person is in pain, even from an old injury, it is still worth a shot. It’s just money. A doctor will give you pills to keep you connected to him with side effects that make it worse for the patient, and the doctors don’t care–they just want more money to buy new cars or condos at vacation resort areasl Early April injury, month of May for PT sessions, back to work in June with 2-3 weeks of PT up to 19 sessions, which included 12 laser treatments through JUne and July–to be pain free and back to normal is amazing. I truly believe if the laser stuff had not been done, I owuld still be in pain. I have no proof that the Stem Kine did anything to my body yet I feel it made a difference. In case those web sites are down, most any health wellness store would have the ability to get those supplements in unable to find them on your own. My tears are still ther and will likely forever be there yet they do not hurt at all. There are always options to dealing with pain and one has to do the research themselves most of the time as relying on doctors who just want money is a bad proposition. I did look at what you did with your after surgery stuff and it sounds good and hope it works permanently. No one may ever read this or stumble across this website yet for those who do, don’t ever give up. Chow.

http://vibrantlifeokc.com/

This is the other web site that has the laser therapy and the Stemcell supplement.

If you don’t believe in organic, at least you know there are alternatiaves that may or may not work yet until one tries for real, one never knows.

@ Carolyn – Thanks! 4 weeks in, so far so good.

@ Meagan – Dr. Schorfhaar at MSU sports med. Thanks, I’ve been really impressed with their office so far!

Who was your Surgeon at MSU? I had all 5 of my knee surgeries there, they know their stuff.

Good luck with everything!

Thanks Dave!

Hope the recovery goes well!! If anyone can hit the 3 month mark it’s you.