My Story with IBD
Fighting IBD Naturally
Life with Crohn’s Disease
Life is hard. Life rarely ever turns out the way we expect it to or hope it will but maybe that’s ok. Maybe it’s life’s way of challenging us to become better versions of ourselves - allowing us to grow from our struggles and then help others. After 20 years of battling Crohn’s disease along with all of the other pressures and disappointments of life I’m still trying learn this lesson myself. I hope that the failures, disappointments, and lessons learned I share here help in whatever journey you are on in life. Be blessed.
Allergic Reactions
My first foray into true a elimination diet started with a question - could I be allergic to egg? Years earlier I had done an IgE food allergy blood test which showed that I had a very slight allergy to egg. I dismissed the test results however since I had been eating eggs my whole life and I had never seen eggs give me an “allergic reaction”…
Diet change is hard
In the summer of 2012 my mom gave me a book called “Breaking the Vicious Cycle” by Elaine Gottschall. The book had been recommended to her by a friend after she saw success with it. When she first gave it to me I thought to myself “yeah… that will never work” and I dismissed it. But as the summer progressed so did my symptoms…