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With a sense of empowerment and fresh hope, I took another bite (don’t you just love these puns) and launched cold turkey into Day 1 of the SCD again, minus the nuts this time... on Day 100, I was still sick. Elaine Gottschall, who popularized SCD, says to try the diet for a month, before deciding if it’s for you, but I’ve heard from several people that it can take longer than that. So I deferred the grad program I was about to start and re-weighed the same options – surgery (yikes!?), immunotherapy (huh!?), chemotherapy (what!?), or the dreaded steroids (prednisone is the worst).
Well, for better or worse, I couldn’t bring myself to try any of those therapies, a couple of which had given me bad side effects in the past. My doctor had strongly advised a colectomy three years before and an appointment with the GI surgeon was set. But I flaked out. I told him, “No thank you Doc, I’m quite attached to my colon - I think I’ll keep it.” Pun intended.
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