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- author: OskarWasTaken
score: 4
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Ulcerative Colitis -remission with Antibiotics (personal story)
I developed ulcerative colitis in December 2024. I came out with all the usual symptoms, and some unusual symptoms.
The usual symptoms were urgency, blood, loose stools. I was going 15-20 times a day.
The unusual symptoms were rashes, fatigue which was extremely terrible, dry skin.
I had months of hospital visits, hospitalisations, medicines that didn’t work, steroids that didn’t work and left
long lasting effects on my bones, and still nothing that really helped solve my issues to a degree that I could have
a normal life.
I had turned my attention to alternative ways to treat my colitis in the form of pro biotics, I took many of them. I
had met with the owner of a health shop for the pro biotics and more, he sussed out from my rash and previous
illnesses before December 2024, which I had a fever with rash in the summer of 24’ , and he suggested I may have
Lyme disease.
I had testing with the NHS, which came back Negative, however I found with research that with certain strains it
would give back false negatives a lot of the time, and NHS testing alone is not reliable.
I had private testing done separate tests, separate of the NHS, and it was positive.
Still terribly ill, but marginally better, I went to Ireland for treatment as the NHS refused to give me
antibiotics.
I had 3 days of antibiotics with Dr Jack Lambert in Dublin and I was a different person, symptoms subsidised and I
was really good.
I had a few months of going up and down but now with new sets of antibiotics, it’s a new me, I am just really so
much better.
I left out alot of details, but I expect this post won’t be too popular, most people here are going to dislike that
I achieved remission with antibiotics and dislike I didn’t use conventional methods but hey, if you’re here in good
faith I’ll answer any questions .
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- author: whoquiteknows
score: 19
text: 'it sounds like you dont have colitis but you have Lyme disease? '
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- author: OskarWasTaken
score: 4
text: ' > It’s complicated and this is the point. I had biopsies which show structural damage and colonoscopies and the doctors are definitive on the diagnoses of ulcerative colitis, however the only time I’ve got my life back and symptoms have gone is due to antibiotics.'
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- author: Feisty-Volcano
score: 4
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Prof John Lambert has had to answer to a parliamentary committee here in Ireland due to his nonstandard take on Lyme
Disease. I advise people do their research.
Re all those antibiotics, I became extremely ill with toxic colitis following a cocktail & was advised against
taking any further oral antibiotics. I had had pneumonia. With colitis, antibiotic use needs to taken judiciously.
Non of us here are doctors, but some of us know by experience that prolonged antibiotics risks developing severe
colitis, & some wonder if Lyme disease is an underlying complaint. IBD can cause skin rashes & arthritis, I have got
severe such symptoms in my own IBD history. Make sure Prof Lambert is well aware of your diagnosis of IBD, that’s
really important, & inform your own local Gastroebterology clinic of your attended with him.
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- author: OskarWasTaken
score: 2
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> He’s more than aware, he’s communicated with my hospital informing them on what he’s doing.
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> Prof Jack Lambert was literally my saviour. There’s no doubt about that.
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> People attack him because he’s one of the only people vocal on how bad Lyme disease is as a problem, and how SOME people with autoimmune disease may not have them at all , and may literally just have untreated Lyme.
>
> He is unconventional, but god he helped me and others so much.
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- author: dev000ps
score: 2
text: >-
Antibiotics indeed reduce inflammation and can make things better. But you can take them for long. Also Lyme PCR
tests can only show if your immune met Lyme or not, but not active infection. Have you been bitten by tick? If so
have you had circular eritema?
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- author: OskarWasTaken
score: 1
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> Well, currently the only thing that has solved my colitis has been fighting the Lyme disease directly with antibiotics.
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> Lyme is also all different, it’s not totally characterised the bullseye rash, any rash can be Lyme.
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> It was proven by testing done, and by the fact that I was immediately better after antibiotics that I was fighting Lyme disease actively.
>
> I went fishing in tall grass, that’s where I think I caught it. I never saw a tick, but it’s not uncommon to not see one.
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> I just wanted to add here in an edit as-well that your claim that antibiotics do reduce inflammation is true for a small amount of people but the larger population of those with colitis will see hardly any difference, my transformation to unwell to well with the antibiotics was dramatic.
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- author: ''
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- author: Reasonable_Talk_7621
score: 2
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How long has it been? If you have to actively be on antibiotics forever, how is that sustainable? Are you not at all
concerned about c diff at this point?
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- author: OskarWasTaken
score: -3
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> I’ve only really just got to a point of remission with them. But I don’t know what alternatives you suggest as no medicines the doctors gave me for colitis worked.
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> I am not concerned about c diff at all as I have a very strong and almost bulletproof routine with pro biotics, even doubling up on some everyday.
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- author: BiggestNige
score: 1
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I've got UC and PSC, and theres research ongoing into Vancomycin and its effects in putting PSC-IBD patients into
remission for their UC.
Here's a link to a recent paper, PSC support are now looking into pushing a wider trial out-
https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/article/19/2/jjae189/7923930
There's a small number of patients who have this off label treatment, especially in the US.
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- author: OskarWasTaken
score: 1
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> Interestingly despite the fact that the hospitals refused to acknowledge my Lyme, they used vancomycin to treat my colitis, they felt it helped.
>
> But we have to ask ourselves why this is the case. If bacteria is a genuine trigger of autoimmune diseases like colitis, is it possible to reverse the disease by eliminating bacteria? I haven’t seen this disproved as of yet.
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> Thank you for the interesting read!
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- author: ''
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