Ed's Story 1997-2001

Revision: June 1st, 2001

The 31st of December 1997 I feel very bloated and nauseas after drinking champagne and eating some slices of cake. During my sleep I wake up in the middle of the night and have to run to the toilet: Vomitting and burping the entire night. A nice way to start a new year (1998). The following days the symptoms alleviate. A couple of weeks later all these events are repeated. Vomitting and burping and no sleep. This cycle repeats until my mother (who got really worried) sends me to the physician.

The physician thinks it must be an ulcer in my stomach and he gives me prepulsid for that. Prepulsid accelerates the flow of the food through the stomach and intestines. The symptoms get a little better, but I keep loosing weight. Another symptom is introduced: Constant tiredness. When I got the University for a couple of hours (two classes), I come back home to rest on the couch for the rest of the day.

After a couple of months my physician sends me to an internist specialized in dealing with intestinal problems. After many investigations (internal and external), it shows I have an inflammated small and large intestine. I think: That's nice.. Now we finally know what's wrong with me. Some antibiotics should help really soon and I can get on with my life. Some time later, the internist tells me the inflammation is chronic. It will stay there for the rest of your life: Crohn's disease and maybe also Colitis Ulcerosa. It's not really clear yet. I couldn't really imagine what a chronic disease ment.

Two and a half years later I knew exactly what a chronic disease ment. I had had three prednison treatments. Every time the prednison made me feel relatively good in a couple of weeks after the initial admission. In several months the dosage is reduced. Then, when I stop using the prednison it would take a couple of months and all the symptoms would return.

In October 2000 I felt really misserable. I noticed the inflammation was returning once more and my hope of a healthy future was virtually gone. Socially I was a wreck, my studies weren't progressing anymore. At that time I felt really bad and depressed. I decided to start looking for alternatives. I couldn't handle another prednison treatment once more. After many, many hours behind my computer screens (dualhead 21 inch monitors) I found a page, written my David Gregg, Ph.D. David has worked in a chemistry lab after he graduated (Chemistry Ph.D). He has been investigating the relation between food and healtness and behaviour. Right now he is retired. In 1995 he got to know a female friend, who was suffering from Crohn's disease for many years. What he did next was very revolutionary.

He managed to find a substance (DMSO) that completely healed her Crohn's disease. The theory behind it is a bit complex. It is described in this article. I didn't have to read this twice. I had a new goal in my life: I had to get this DMSO and heal myself. So that's what I did. I managed to order the DMSO from the USA. My internist didn't want to prescribe it because he wasn't certain of the effectiveness. It took a month to get the DMSO. I was thrilled when I saw the DMSO bottle in front of me. This would be the end to all my problems. I started using it. A week before that I had already started the SCDiet.

My weight started to stabilise and I definitely had less gas in my stomach and intestines. Three times a day I applied the DMSO to my abdomen. By mixing in a small amount of water, the itching was reduced. Slowy, I started to feel better and better and I started to regain my energy. Very soon I started to gain weight again (I was weighing about 65kg back then, lenght: 1.85 meter). I started to put on weight at an impressive rate of almost one kilo every week. I concluded the DMSO was starting to heal me. At that time I was still using the SCDiet, because I thought it did help a bit.

In Januari 2001 I felt perfect. I hadn't felt so energetic and vital in years. My internist was really amazed to so me in such health. Even more when my blood testresults showed no deviations anymore. If you'd read my blood test result, you would think I was a completely healthy person. There was no increase in the amount of white bloodcells, my hemoglobin level was perfect, no more sedimentation in the blood also. I concluded again that the DMSO was doing this. My weight was now once again a healthy 72 kilo's. The second week of January I went to a specialized clinic in Amsterdam to get the results of my allergy tests. You can read the rest of my story in my diary and my book revriews in which I also incorporate a progress report.

In short:

Below, you can see me as of October, 27th 2001, weighing 73 kilo's: