Yes, when I was inflamed. I quite my antibiotic in favor of pentasa and canassa to keep down the inflammation. These r safe long term drugs. Since removing maybe 80 percent of carbs and sugar out of my diet with these meds my frequency has decrease. Actually, I am only taking a half dose of pentasa. I probably could stop that but I still need a crutch. I have been taking canassa every night for 4 years but I think what happened is that I had an on going sinus infection the last year with multiple antibiotics. Similiar to want happened 4 years ago, plus I was eating a lot of crap. I also find that homemade kefir helps which is a forbidden food on the SDS diet. The CD people swear by it. Oh and 1000 mg turmeric, very anti inflammatory.

well new day..figured i would get more into scd with the homemade yoghurt to sub for my greek yoghurt ..got everything i needed for it..anyone else interested i could tell you where and what to get..i figure after i make it a few times it will not be a big deal..hoping i do not have a night out of the blue like last night ..severe pain in rectum when going and i went about 5 times throughout night..it killed..woke up and no issues but for me things happen at night!!! still betting on the diet..yoghurt last thing i had not complied with scd...and then if still issue will cut fruit down although allowed...clearly there has been improvement..maybe just some bumps in the road...but last night was brutal!!

Rebe I rotate antibiotics with lactulose. I go one week where I take 500 mg cipro & flagyl, one week with lactulose, then one week taking 1100 mg xifaxin. This seems to have worked well combined with diet of low carbs and low sugar.

Rebe, how r things going?

allycat ..really doing (no antibiotics,5 weeks now) good thank you...the diet seems to be the thing ..i think i have incidents like on 28th because i overdo something like a box of frozen grapes!!!!thats a lot of grapes

also i tried the hard cheeses and the home made almond bread from scd(yummy)..almond bread seems to be fine but eliminated the cheese(dairy) and have not had a painful event since....so maybe stick to NO simple carbs,low sugar as in fruit and seems my greek yoghurt okay even though some sugar there...

how about you?