Hi Mick,
Welcome to the board. You've already received a lot of good advice so I'll just address a couple of points. First, since most of us are sensitive to casein (the main protein in all dairy products), if you try the SCD, avoid yogurt, because it will almost surely prevent you from ever reaching remission. If you omit casein from the SCD, that effectively means that you will be on the paleo diet, which is a much better diet to begin with, for treating this disease.
Secondly, IMO, it's high time someone debunked that "inflammatory foods" myth. Certain foods have been proclaimed by so-called "experts" as pro-inflammatory. Why? Well, some "experts" blame it on a report issued by the Harvard Medical School, claiming that certain foods trigger the release of cytokines. This appears to be another example of a little education being a bad thing.
It amounts to using pseudo-science to promote an agenda.
The problem with that half-truth is that all foods trigger some degree of mast cell degranulation, resulting in the release of certain pro-inflammatory mediators that are used as chemical signals to trigger necessary responses from the digestive system in order for it to properly prepare to digest the food that is being ingested. For example, the release of histamine in the stomach is necessary, in order to prompt parietal cells in the stomach to produce additional gastric acid, so that the food will be at least partially-digested before it leaves the stomach -- otherwise the food will spoil in that warm, moist environment, if insufficient stomach acid is available. Consider the following quote:
Saturated fats, cholesterol and trans fat are pro-inflammatory and should be avoided. Foods high in pro-inflammatory fats include beef and other red meats, butter, whole milk, cheese, coconut oil and palm oil. You’ll find trans fats in any product that has partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is prominent in margarine and commercially prepared baked goods and snacks.
Unsaturated fats, including vegetable oils such as soybean, corn, safflower, canola and olive oil, are anti-inflammatory and help lower cholesterol.
Really? beef and other red meats and coconut oil are inflammatory?
I don't think so -- someone is very confused, and it ain't me. Soybean oil is anti-inflammatory? I don't think so. Where do they get that BS? Soybean oil sucks, as far as general human health is concerned.
That quote comes from this site, which seems to be typical of most sites which attempt to promote certain foods as pro-inflammatory and others as anti-inflammatory:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/55508 ... d-sources/
Such agendas are an extension of the corrupt promotion of carbs and fiber that began in the 1980's (based on government propaganda), and it's only now being brought into question. Not only does the archaeological record dispute these claims, but current declining health trends also illustrate that there is a fly in the ointment, as far as those "healthy" recommendations are concerned.
All that to say that IMO, white rice is not an inflammatory food. Inflammatory foods cause autoimmune-type reactions. Fewer people in the world are sensitive to rice than any other grain. If you are going to eat a grain, rice is by far the safest choice. Brown rice would be healthier than white rice because it contains nutrients that are lost when the hull is removed from brown rice to produce white rice, except that brown rice retains all of the original fiber, and fiber is definitely contraindicated for anyone who has MC.
Everything is relative. All food causes some degree of inflammation. Sure, white rice causes more inflammation than a carrot, but so what? It's not one of the biggies. The biggies are wheat, rye, barley, oats, dairy products, and soy.
Again, welcome aboard, and please feel free to ask anything.
Tex
After going to my GP I was given a decreasing 40mg prednisone x 5 days etc. I was watching my diet, low inflammatory low fiber diet. It helped but still not the normal poop prior to the onset. I started adding foods and before long, I had another flare up. I went on a "blast" of 40mg of Prednisone for 5 days and it helped until I went off. 
