Exploring the Train of Pain

You may not realize that the various inflammatory bowel conditions are actually related: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis, and Crohn’s. Let’s take a minute and look at these conditions. From the point of view of a naturopathic practitioner each of these issues is really just a progressively worse version of the previous one.

With each of these conditions as time goes by without the proper treatment there is more and more damage being done to the tissue of the GI tract. You can compare this damage to that of first, second, and third degree burns. As the level of a burn gets higher not only is it more painful but also more complicated to treat.

I call this progression ‘the train of pain.’ Each GI issue can be considered a stop along the way. The symptoms accumulate at each ‘stop.’

The 1st stop is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The symptoms here include some pain that is more like cramping, gas, bloating, and diarrhea. These symptoms are barely tolerable and as the train runs down the track do nothing but get worse.

The next stop is Colitis. Now the symptoms of IBS have gotten more pronounced, especially the diarrhea which by now has become urgent and intolerable.

As we keep rumbling down the line the next stop is Ulcerative Colitis. Nobody likes this stop especially those who can’t stand the sight of blood—in their toilet bowel!

Now we find ourselves getting to the end of the line. We are running out of tract—as in the gastrointestinal tract from our digestive acids eroding our colon. Imagine all of the above symptoms ramped up to another level with the addition of mucus in the stool. This is the last stop on the line - Crohn’s. You don’t want to go there.

All of this pain and suffering can be avoided if you jump off that train early by seeking an alternative means of getting where you really want to go—perfect colon health.

What is col-itis?

This is pretty simple—–itis = irritation-pain-inflammation.

Ulcerative Colitis just means that the colon has an ulcer which results when the itis is either ignored or does not receive proper treatment.

IC-Interstitial Cystitis is exactly the same condition but occurs in the bladder and as with colitis can be very painful.

Sinusitis – bronchitis – arthritis are all the same thing just in different locations.

If you’ve got pain you’ve got an itis and in all of these examples the tissue can be repaired and you can then live a normal itis free life.

BTW regarding arthritis, oftentimes the pain that we experience in any part of the body is referred to as pain, particularly from the gastro-intestinal tract and I can’t tell you how many times when repairing someone’s colon they also found that these other aches and pains either went completely away or improved significantly.

The Truth About What Ulcerative Colitis Is

• Ulcerative Colitis is essentially when you have holes in the wall of your colon.

• Ulcerative Colitis is when you have blood and sometimes mucus in your stool.

• Ulcerative Colitis is not a disease.

• Ulcerative Colitis is a manmade condition.

• Ulcerative Colitis is caused by the post-WW2 indiscriminate prescribing of manmade synthetic antibiotics. These are lethal weapons and the state of our gastro-intestinal and immune systems are the result of it.

• Ulcerative Colitis is what happens when you wait too long to get the proper care which is not prednisone or immune-suppressing drugs.

• Ulcerative Colitis is a degenerative condition. This means that it does not sit still or go into remission. It does not just somehow go away on its own. It just keeps breaking down your colon and it is just a matter of time before it becomes Crohn’s.

• Ulcerative Colitis is misunderstood. Everything you’ve been told and read online is wrong.

• All of these conditions, IBS, Colitis, Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s are the same condition with the only difference being the amount of damage to the tissue. This is no different than 1st-2nd-3rd degree burns.

• UC is 100% fixable. The same goes for all of them.