HI Denise – sorry to hear this. WE’d highly recommend some digestive enzymes.
Here are some digestive enzymes we recommend:

Digest Gold – http://amzn.to/XHZOjS

Gi Pro Helath Prozymes – http://www.giprohealth.com/enzymes.aspx (SCD Legal)

Thorne Dipan 9 – http://amzn.to/1bQ6aHM

Also, please read this article on the 4 horseman to make sure one or all of these foods aren’t affecting him: : https://healthygut.com/what-to-do-when-the-scd-diet-isnt-working/

Hi Carry – so sorry to hear you’ve had a detour on your healing path 😉

Can you pinpoint why or when things got off track? Did you add a new food? Start a new job? Move? Go back to school? end or begin a relationship? Start a new form of exercise?

I recommend trying the supplement colostrum and also really thinking about why things took a turn – usually there is something you can pinpoint 🙂 Let us know if you figure it out!

Thanks, Marilyn, for taking the time to offer this encouragement!

We appreciate you!

If you ever need support, let me know! support@scdlifestyle.com

Dear jag, I have had a lot of years of personal experience with colitis and using the scd. I found that it was necessary for me to stop eating all grains, all fruits, raw vegetables, starches of any kind, and all acid drinks such as soda (sugar free included) coffee, and any tea that was not herbal. I know this sounds tough but it worked for me in only a few months. After that I slowly added in raw veg, followed by fruits, and eventually some grains and starches. I continue to stay away from acid drinks because they are all harmful to any body. This worked for me for many years. Old age has now given me a new set of problems with the same old symptoms. I am back on this diet again with added old age supplements your daughter does’t need. I encourage you to listen to Jordan and Steve. They are on the right track.

Hi Jag, I’m sorry your daughter hasn’t seen the improvements she wants. We really believe SCD works for everyone if it’s done the right way. It can be really frustrating, but part of the magic of SCD comes from following the intro diet and then slowing phasing in the foods according to the charts – it’s also really important to remove any foods your daughter reacts to.

I recommend this article, too: https://healthygut.com/what-to-do-when-the-scd-diet-isnt-working/

If you have any questions about how to do the intro diet let me know! support@scdlifestyle.com

I’m into Phase 1 of SCD. After 2.5 years of very severe UC pancolitis, with Humira and Imuran not doing anything for me, I finally reached the point where I was determined to do this diet. I did the Intro for 5 days and experienced die-off symptoms on Day 2 and 3. I have gone from 8-12 BMs a day to 2-3 BMs a day and I’m only on Day 7! Do I just the phase-length by how I’m feeling? Ie. If, after 2 weeks on Phase 1, I’m feeling ok, I can progress to Phase 2? My BMs are still 6, sometimes 7 on the scale, but mainly 6 over the past two days – since I introduced banana. Even though my BMs don’t look right (yet) – I’m assuming the SCD is definitely helping me seeing as my frequency has more than halved since I started it!

Thanks for all the guidance!

@Coach – Congrats to you and your husband for making the lifestyle switch. Keep coming back here to update us on his progress and then finally I want his story on the site to inspire others!

@ GK – your doing awesome and I wish you the best as you transition. I hope you keep us updated on the site here so others can follow in your footsteps!

@ GK this is a really good question. I think most bloggers we’ve talked with ditched their meds when they were still sick and not seeing any results from them. We talk with people all the time who are on meds and SCD and pose the same question about which is really working to help them. I think it’s different in each case, my beliefs tell me that foods are either hurting or helping so in this case SCD is helping. But your meds can mask the correct custom SCD for you. So if your eating a lot of advanced SCD foods like tons of nuts and fruits it’s likely you’ll see problems when you taper off the meds. In general your body is going to rebound and have to detox the meds so usually you’ll want to in your food safe zone and possibly fall back to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet intro soup during that time.

I suffered from stomach aches, terrible gas, weight loss, malnutriotion, low iron, anemia,…Dokters did all sorts of tests and found nothing. But I kept losing weight at a terrible speed, so I went on the internet for some help. Luckily I found SCD. I discussed the diet with my doctor, and the reaction was something like, don’t get your hopes up, but it won’t hurt you. The first weeks were very hard, but I almost felt immediately some releaf (after the die-off that is, that was quite terrible). After 2 months my bloodwork was perfect. My doctor hardly could beleive it. I am still continuing with the diet, introducing new foods one at a time. I am able to start cycling again. And I already regained a lot of the lost weight. So really worth to give it a try.

Best regards, and good luck for everybody trying SCD. Really worked for me.
Marianne

Hi Clare – you’re so amazing. I know you’ve been through so much but you’re on the right track.

Your symptoms will tell you when to move on to new foods. Are you still improving? If not, you might need to keep testing out some tweaks like digestive enzymes or Betaine HCL before you can tolerate new foods.

I’m sorry about the “add to cart” button trouble. It seems to be working now. Can you try again or try using a different web browser like Mozilla Firefox?

Hang in there!

Jordan