SAVED FROM SURGERY
Sat, December 08, 2012 8:47 PM
If you are facing surgery there is another option to try before surrendering your colon forever. Fecal Transplant. After suffering from IBD since 1977, i tried FT six months ago and am in remission/cured? I am on no meds other than once per month FT. Having had the disease for so long, I was at very high risk of losing my colon eventually. I have posted on this forum to spread the word re FT. I just got an email from a father whose 14 yr old son was hospitalized with severe UC. The drugs were not working and surgery was the next step. His father insisted that they try FT before resorting to surgery. There are only a handful fo doctors treating UC with FT now, but the number is growing. However, FT is now becoming widespread to treat cdiff, because the cure rate is 90-95%. He convinced his doc to use FT for UC even though they were only doing it for cdiff cases. 2 weeks post FT, his son is out of the hospital, doing FT once per week and is improving slowly.
An Australian doctor pioneered FT for UC. Google him to find the study he published in 2003. He treated 6 UC patients with FT. After one year, all were in remission and on no meds. He claims a cure rate of over 50% for UC.
Google fecal transplant ulcerative colitis and you will find a lot of info.
there are two medical trials starting -look them up at clinicaltrials.gov.
the december 2011 of the Scientific American has good article on FT
email me at ed_bondo@comcast.net if you want info on doctors, how to keep your costs down, how to do it at home
I and some GI Docs that are friends of mine feel that FT for UC will become standard practice in a few years.
If you are facing surgery, you cannot wait for FT to become commonplace. Try it now. I did and it changed my life.
if anyone out there tries FT because of this post, please let me know how it goes. I care.
Tucker
tuckerJoined Jun 30, 2012
Sun, January 13, 2013 1:46 PM
Reply posted for Tucker.
For any ofyou who are grossed out by the thought of putting someone else's poop in your bum, there may be another option in the future. A researcher in Ontario Canada, has come up with and artificial poop that successfully cured FT in two cases. Unfortunately, it might be many years before coming to market and may not be any safer, effective or cheaper than the real thing.
info can be found on a blog that has all the info you will ever need on fecal transplant
email me at ed_bondo@comcast.net and I will send you the link.
tuckerJoined Jun 30, 2012
Wed, December 26, 2012 4:56 PM
Reply posted for Tucker.
There is a blog that has all the info that you need as far as fecal transplant. CCFA rules prevent me from naming it here.
email me at ed_bondo@comcast.net for info
tuckerJoined Jun 30, 2012
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