Comments on: Thank God for Western Medicine http://waitingforthecure.com/I/2009/11/02/thank-god-for-western-medicine/ ... a day in the life of Crohn's disease ... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: admin http://waitingforthecure.com/I/2009/11/02/thank-god-for-western-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-658 admin Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:31:47 +0000 http://waitingforthecure.com/I/?p=881#comment-658 I feel more urgency to incubate, so will step up that process. There's a strange aspect to this therapy, that you wish everyone would just go ahead and try it. It's been lonely being one of the few with Crohn's who even knows about it, educating my expert GI at UCSF. Friends with allergies, other diseases, have so much revulsion to the thought of some tiny little worms, that they accuse me of being a worm evangelist, shuddering at the thought. They figure I did it out of desperation, but I would have tried this 20 years ago as a teenager, if I knew about it. What's their problem? It's really no big deal. We swallow billions of bacteria in our VSL#3, why are worms so horrific? I look forward to the bulk of us being resevoir donors. If only for the comfort that we are not alone. I feel more urgency to incubate, so will step up that process. There’s a strange aspect to this therapy, that you wish everyone would just go ahead and try it. It’s been lonely being one of the few with Crohn’s who even knows about it, educating my expert GI at UCSF. Friends with allergies, other diseases, have so much revulsion to the thought of some tiny little worms, that they accuse me of being a worm evangelist, shuddering at the thought. They figure I did it out of desperation, but I would have tried this 20 years ago as a teenager, if I knew about it. What’s their problem? It’s really no big deal. We swallow billions of bacteria in our VSL#3, why are worms so horrific?

I look forward to the bulk of us being resevoir donors. If only for the comfort that we are not alone.

]]> By: David http://waitingforthecure.com/I/2009/11/02/thank-god-for-western-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-657 David Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:49:30 +0000 http://waitingforthecure.com/I/?p=881#comment-657 I'm glad you're open-minded enough to see the benefits of conventional and alternative treatments. A lot of folks become true believers in alternative meds when mainstream medicine fails them, but science is ultimately good even if it takes a long time. I'm glad you're finally starting to feel better. I still want to try this for my own health issues, and would love to be a second reserve donor when you get the incubation together. I'm unlikely to need anaesthesia any time soon, and would certainly be willing to stay away from anything that would kill worms if it meant not being in pain all the time. I’m glad you’re open-minded enough to see the benefits of conventional and alternative treatments. A lot of folks become true believers in alternative meds when mainstream medicine fails them, but science is ultimately good even if it takes a long time. I’m glad you’re finally starting to feel better. I still want to try this for my own health issues, and would love to be a second reserve donor when you get the incubation together. I’m unlikely to need anaesthesia any time soon, and would certainly be willing to stay away from anything that would kill worms if it meant not being in pain all the time.

]]> By: Ragamuffin http://waitingforthecure.com/I/2009/11/02/thank-god-for-western-medicine/comment-page-1/#comment-656 Ragamuffin Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:56:21 +0000 http://waitingforthecure.com/I/?p=881#comment-656 encouraging thoughts. congratulations on finding them, and on finding a way to settle those incorrigible sleepless nights and incessant anxious days. i hope that your heart continues to settle and that your mind follows it. encouraging thoughts. congratulations on finding them, and on finding a way to settle those incorrigible sleepless nights and incessant anxious days. i hope that your heart continues to settle and that your mind follows it.

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