Check out Declan's story on how he has been able to reverse Crohn's disease via a plant-based diet. He has been through so much and lost almost all his hair due to medications. This is a raw and real testimonial of someone who has really taken control of their health. He is so pleased with his progress he couldn't wait to share his story with everyone. Hope you guys can get something out of this and also heal your disease!
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37 years old and life was full, fast and exciting when it took a sudden turn. Perhaps not so much a turn, but a sudden neck-breaking stop! I had begun the year in New York working a contract, then had a trip to India and was back in Ireland awaiting my transfer back to New York for more work when my body "failed me". As the months wore on and my job opportunity passed me by, I was now 37 years old; stuck on my parent's couch unable to function or live any form of life. The doctors, the bloods, the specialists, the colonoscopy's, more bloods, endoscopy's, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, MRI scans, more bloods, steroids, Pentasa and a feeling of achievement every time I could go for a short walk or meet a friend for an hour, life was unrecognizable. By the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's I was ecstatic. It proved I wasn't crazy. Oh, how ignorance is bliss.
In January 2018 a doctor could have handed me opium and I would have taken it with zeal but instead, I was given Infliximab (biologic) and began to claw my life back bit by bit. Over the next year, I would realize that doctors should say when diagnosing you that you have a choice between the side effects of drugs and the symptoms of the disease but that you will never be well again. Nausea was a persistent pest, weight gain, memory loss, acne and finally Telogen Effluvium - the loss of my hair. I was switched from Infliximab to Entyvio and pains in my heals and arms soon replaced the nausea. A desperate feeling of isolation and helplessness befell me. I lay in an oncology ward, Entyvio pumping into my veins - numb - a pawn in a game. The game I came to realize was a disease misunderstood by the medical profession where doctors try this, try that, a bit more of this, a bit less of that, using drugs never designed for this cursed disease. It was all a game of chance, trial and error. After 6 months of Entyvio, the nausea soon returned followed by a flare. I had had enough of this unwinnable game!
I realized if this was the best I could hope for with the disease mostly in remission and mild as a specialist described it if this was the blueprint of my life to come then how was I ever to live with the normal stresses and challenges of life? Move jobs? Travel? Have kids? Deal with bereavement? Each time you feel well you simply turn the egg timer over and wait for the next "something" to strike. You live your life in hindsight, never enjoying the moment. There had to be another way. There had to be an answer to this.
I found High Carb Health in June 2019. Now thanks to those two wonderful men I play by my own rules - free of medications and this disease. I am fully back in control of my body and my life. The future is ... well, I have one!
HCH taught me that my body hadn't "failed me" - I had failed it.
I had found the ESCAPE key from this game!