Questions for those who use or have tried or know about SCD

Celie · Post by **Celie** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:17 pm

Hi All,
I think I am going to try the SCD diet. I have a friend who was very successful with this diet.

My question concerns getting started. The diet assumes that you are having symptoms and can tell whether you are being successful by reducing them. I am currently taking Entocort, which completely masks my symptoms. I have no D while taking 6 mg of Entocort.

My plan is to keep taking the Entocort until I get to the end of the semester and then try to get off. Until that time, I will start the diet and hopefully help my colon heal so that when I taper of the Entocort, I will have fewer symptoms. Since I am having no symptoms, do I need to start with the recommended phase in or just start eating only SCD legal foods?

Thank you!

Celie

Post by **tex** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:18 pm

Celie,

The basic difference between the SCD and the diet that many of us follow, is that the SCD allows casein, (yogurt), and most of us are sensitive to casein. If I were going to start using that diet, I would probably just start following it, in whatever way seemed the easiest to me at the time.

Good luck with it, and please keep us updated on how it goes.

Tex

Celie · Post by **Celie** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:36 pm

Thank you Tex,
I was planning to start it dairy free. The plan suggested to me is to start it without dairy. Seems reasonable. All the diets I looked at seem to be similar. You eat around the outside of the grocery store and you cook your own stuff.

I am ready to try it. I had my biopsy today so I can go gluten free this weekend.

This board is a Godsend! I am learning so much!

Celie

harma · Post by **harma** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:04 am

Hello Celie, I agree with tex, if you do the SC diet do it dairy free, since a lot of us here can't stand dairy. If you leave the dairy out, the SC diet a bit more of a looser version of the paleo diet.

I am also on entocort and follow a diet since november last year (it's not 100% paleo or SC but close to it), even with the medication you will feel the difference soon, at least I did and still do. Anytime after doing better I tried to introduce new food and/or lower the medication. Almost everytime it was to early, but also than don't give up, give it time.

Good luck with it.

harma

tcorbett · Post by **tcorbett** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:38 pm

This is rather late - but, I've been off and on the SCD diet. You do need to start with the Intro Diet - it helps to clear out the bad yeast/bacteria stuff. Then you can slowly add more foods - you don't have to do the Intro more than 2 days probably, although the full 5 may be best. I could just never stay on it longer than 3 weeks. Keep us posted on how you do!

T

TooManyHats · Post by **TooManyHats** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:42 pm

I can see the breakfast foods for that diet being a problem for me since they say to exclude eggs if the D is bad. It wouldn't leave me much for breakfast. Otherwise it looks like an interesting diet.