It's been about 2 months, overall lots of improvements. Increased energy, less sensitivity to a variety of foods (huge improvement here!!), face is more full of life & color, no dark circles under eyes, less overall GI inflammation and significantly reduced bloating and burping. AS pains were already pretty manageable with low starch and raw foods diet, but GI was still under some distress before the transplant. She did it DIY with a donor from her husband. She would do it again in a heartbeat. She wishes she had just been brave enough to do it 3 years ago, when her AS & GI pains were extreme, maybe she would have help to prevent a portion of the "bamboo spine" that was noted on her recent x-rays. It is too bad there is such a stigma associated with getting treated with a full dose of a well balanced and healthy ecosystem from someone else, as hers was destroyed by overzealous doctors and a year of antibiotics as a small child.


I'm now a KICK AS (and Kick IBD) success story!! After going low starch Paleo to heal my gut, I can now eat nearly all starches, grains & foods without inflammation, flare-ups, or pain. I used a modified SCD diet approach (minus dairy! plus cacao ♥). Cheers to healing & thriving again! I blog at http://www.forestandfauna.com/about/