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Below you can read my health journal. Please note it's a quite subjective diary. Also, I'm often (too) enthousiastic about things I try, so please keep that that in mind while reading.
Nonetheless, I hope that reading my experiences might be helpful for you.

	Diary
	Feeling Report  9   Sunday, January 07 2001 Today, I can definitely rate my condition as a NINE again ! Two days in a row.. I've been active the entire day and at 00:30 I still felt energetic ! WOW  9   Saturday, January 06 2001 Today I felt great.. Worth a nine ! Please check David Gregg's Website (under promotion on the treatment page). He has identified a third mechanism in Crohn's Disease ! Read it.. It's very revolutionary !  8   Thursday, January 04 2001 I went to my physician today. My blood test results are perfect.. No sign of any inflammation is left. My liver functions, however decreases a bit.. It first was 30, then 40 after a couple of days and now it's more than 50.. I read this on www.msm.com/book/msm-part1.html : {MSM has never been found to cause liver damage but it may interfere with the accuracy of the test for liver enzymes by sometimes producing false positives} Because my results are all perfect, I will stop using the DMSO as of today. My inflammation is gone !    I will keep you updated when my situation changes... Thanks, Ed, The Netherlands  8   Sunday, December 31 2000 Today, I drank some Rooibos Tea, which I thought would have no effect on my iron absorption.. WRONG ! Quote: {African Red Bush Tea -Rooibos - Higher in anti-oxidants than any other tea. High in flavanoids. Rich in minerals} The flavanoids are responsible for binding the iron... It has even more flavanoids than green tea, so it seems ! The problem is, that the flavanoids render the iron unusable for creating hemaglobin... I just drank three cups and the energy level dropped an hour later.. Result: I won't drink that much (of any) tea until my iron-level in my blood has increased to a reasonable level ! Happy new year !     9   Saturday, December 30 2000 Hi, I was right.. My energy level is up and I don't have any moments of sleepiness (only at bedtime)..    I've exchanged the green tea for fruit juices (vitamin C enhances iron absorption).  8   Wednesday, December 27 2000 Today, I felt great..    I didn't have any moment of sleepiness, until 17:00. Most days, I have a couple of these moments.. I tried to figure out something : Why do I still have short moments of sleepiness ? Then I noticed, I was drinking A LOT (maybe, three liters a day) of green tea the last couple of weeks ! And yesterday, we went to family to celebrate second christmas day.. There, I didn't drink any tea at all... Black tea decreases the iron absorption by 50%.. I searched www.northernlight.com for ''+green tea'' +''iron abso*''... Guess what : Green tea decreases the iron absorption by a whopping SIXTY percent ! Then, I remembered a study at the www.scdiet.org site : A large percentage of ulcerative colitiis sufferers in Japan, used to drink bigger than average amounts of green tea ! http://www.kalenderweb.nl/crohn/ga.php3?linkid=32 Maybe a new addition to the theory : Green tea decreases the absorption of iron by 60%. This 60% of iron will stay in the intestines, while it should have been transferred into the blood ! This iron will catalyze the Fenton reaction... I'm learning new facts, every day    ! Besides that, I also read this : {Common symptoms of iron-deficiency anemia are lowered resistance to infections, fainting, breath holding, mental fatigue, sleepiness, cold hands and feet.} I also have cold hands and feet (everybody tells me that when I shake hands). I already told you about the mental fatigue and sleepiness.. Read it on : http://www.kalenderweb.nl/crohn/ga.php3?linkid=68 If everything works out well (no green tea, black tea or coffee anymore), my condition will be a NINE tomorrow. We'll see !  8   Monday, December 25 2000 Merry Christmas to all of you..    I'm still feeling great ! My weight is up another kilo : SEVENTY KILO's I've gained five kilo's in four weeks ! Note, I will write less often in my diary, because my condition has stabilized. When my condition changes, I will let you know..  8   Tuesday, December 19 2000 Today I felt really great... I first thought : This day I can rate my condition as a nine ! Then I reconsidered... Maybe, I've forgotten alltogether what it feels like at a rating of 10.. Maybe I will have to extend the scale to 12 when I progress this fast... So, I decide to make it an 8+, so it leaves room for further progression...  8   Monday, December 18 2000 Today I felt OK... Nothing special to tell about..  8   Sunday, December 17 2000 Very positive day... I searched the web almost the entire day to find evidence for the DMSO-Crohn theory.. I've found a lot of medical studies that confirm the theory... * Inflammation because of the iron catalyzing the haber-weiss reaction, which creates HO-radicals * DMSO increases the transferrin receptors * DMSO decreases TNF by eliminating the HO-radicals.. Also read the melatonin section.. I've added some medical studies there too ! I think I will need the DMSO for only one more week... No energy problems at all today..

	Diary
	Feeling Report  8   Saturday, December 16 2000 Today I felt ok... The second eight-rating in my diary !  8   Friday, December 15 2000 Yes, this is the first day, I dare to rate my condition as an 8 !    I felt perfect the entire day.. Energy level perfect, one visit to the toilet.. No mucous anymore... Looks completely healthy and doesn't smell bad at all anymore.. Besides that, I noticed something else : I used to have a white rash on my tongue... It's Gone !    There is no doubt in my mind anymore.. The DMSO is doing this !     7   Thursday, December 14 2000 YES !! Another extra kilo on the scale !    My weight is now 69 kg ! I started three weeks ago with 65 kg !  7   Wednesday, December 13 2000 Today, I felt better than yesterday... My energy level was ok...  6   Tuesday, December 12 2000 Today, I still had some gas in my system.. I checked with my brother.. He also has this and my father also.. We all ate the same soup sunday... So, I think it's nothing to be concerned about.. My father and brother are completely healthy and my reaction to the soup is no worse than their reactions... Today, I went to a specialized clinic in Amsterdam.. The doctor suggests I take a specialized blood test... Two tubes of blood will be taken from me, the tenth of January. This blood will be sent a laboratory in England. There, they will add a drop of food-concentrate to the blood and check how the white-blood-cells will react.. 95 different foods will be checked (like chicken, beef, porc, different kinds of veggies, fruits, etc).. I will then receive a list a week after that with all the foods I react to and the foods I don't react to (neutral).. Then I will start a diet for 3 months, where I will eat none of the foods on the red list.. This could cure my disease... This sounds very sensible to me... For the rest of the day, my energy level was ok... A couple of burps here and there, no further problems...  6   Monday, December 11 2000 The soup I ate yesterday was not really appreciated by my intestines... Result : An amount of gas in my stumach and intestines.. I felt a bit weak.. After I ate and applied the DMSO it was feeling OK.. I've been searching the web some more.. I've added three links to the treatment page : * Information on DMSO by the Edelson Center * A Page that describes the use of DMSO for Interstitial Cystitis. * RIMSO and DOMOSO is a brand name for medical grade DMSO. Try to find one of these.. They're 99,9 or 100% pure DMSO ! Tomorrow I will see another doctor, who is specialized in food allergies for treating chronic diseases.. I'll let you know more tomorrow..  7   Sunday, December 10 2000 Today I've dissolved the folium accid and the B12 in the DMSO I applied this morning. My condition is good. Nothing special to write about..  7   Saturday, December 09 2000 No new facts... I feel good..  7   Friday, December 08 2000 I've been updating the website.. It took a couple of hours to code it. Like a couple of days before, I didn't get tired at all.. My weight is still +3 kg !    DMSO is the cure for me !    I'll ask my physician monday to send me the blood test results.. I will post them here once I get them...  7   Thursday, December 07 2000 Today, I felt great.. Once again we had a big amount of packages to sent (like last week).. This time, I didn't feel tired or weak at all.. My condition remained perfect, the entire day...

	Condition progress graph
	Day Condition (1=bad, 10=perfect) Jan 07  9   Jan 06  9   Jan 04  8   Dec 31  8   Dec 30  9   Dec 27  8   Dec 25  8   Dec 19  8   Dec 18  8   Dec 17  8   Dec 16  8   Dec 15  8   Dec 14  7   Dec 13  7   Dec 12  6   Dec 11  6   Dec 10  7   Dec 09  7   Dec 08  7   Dec 07  7