28/12/2022
Some info on goat's milk
For those of you have or know of someone with Crohns Disease, please read this!
I was diagnosed with Crohns in 2010 at 10 years old. I started out with Remicade, but after about two years, my joints began locking up and were unbelievably painful to move. After some further testing we found that I had become allergic to Remicade. Since then, Iâve been on methotrexate, humira, vedolizumab (entyvio), stelara, and more. After about one to two years, they all stopped working. Through the summer of eighth grade, I developed deep ulcers in my mouth. I couldnât eat, couldnât walk, and I dropped below 100 pounds (I was about 5ft 5in at the time, and now 5ft 9in).
Now, almost 13 years after being diagnosed, I have gone through all of the available medications for Crohnâs disease. I am currently taking Rinvoq, which is a drug that has not yet been approved by the FDA for Crohnâs. They currently use it in low doses for rheumatoid arthritis. Even this didnât seem to be working. I have already had to do a course of steroids to control a flare. I started to get scared because if this doesnât work what will happen to me? Well, it was at this point that I decided to make some major changes in my life.
RAW GOATS MILK. I purchased three dairy goats and did all the necessary disease testing on them. A few days into drinking the goats milk I started to notice something. Every time I drank it, it seemed like the pain just dissolved out of my stomach. Anytime I start to feel pain or discomfort I just guzzled the goats milk. But even further than that, I have found that I can use it to replace prednisone. Here is howâŠ.
I did a consultation with a Crohn's doctor in San Francisco, California (she did a zoom visit with me). She said that instead of taking prednisone the next time I flare, I should try stopping all food and only drinking Ensures for 24 to 48 hours. Well, as Iâm sure most of you know, ensures are AWFUL for you. So much sugar and processed garbage. Since goats milk is one of the most nutritionally complete foods you can have in itself, I decided to use her recommendation but instead of drinking ensures, I drank my raw goats milk. So hereâs what I did. I took a couple drops of oregano oil 2x in a day to pull all the bad bacteria out of my gut. After that, I stopped eating food and drank as much goats milk as I could for 24 hours. For the FIRST time in 13 years, I was able to CURB A FLARE WITHOUT STEROIDS. I am still in shock that this has happened. Since then, my stomach has been great. I donât eat sugar or any processed foods. This diet, mainly including raw goats milk, has entirely changed my life.
This discovery has not only changed my entire life, but also my view of the future. I now see a way to manage my own disease, and to curb flares on my own, without relying solely on immunosuppressive medications and biologics. The goats milk has done more for me than all of these medications that the doctors have been throwing at me for years. Even better than that, the goats milk doesnât come with a black box warning.
I wanted to share my story with this goat group in hopes that some of you might have or know someone with Crohnâs Disease. Thereâs no guarantee that what works for me will work for everyone, but my hope is that it will help at least a couple people in the same way itâs helped me. Itâs really changed my life for the better.
