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So if you have read my previous blog, you know that I have been having an extremely hard time with a case of ulcerative colitis. This last week I have finnally been feeling better, been able to keep food in me for a reasonable time, and things are slowly getting back to normal, I hope things will get back to what is normal any way. All the doctors and specialists agree that my case was extremely difficult to treat. Overall i was in the hospital for 8 days, in the ER twice, and a lot of tests and procedures and drugs to treat it. None of the typical drugs used to treat it didnt work on me, and some i had a rare, very bad reaction to, which didnt help matters either. Overall I lost 25lbs, and am pretty depressed when I look in the mirror. That was 2.5 years of ass breaking i lost in a matter of 5 short weeks. I will post a pic of me now just to show what a horrible effect this disease had on me, and maybe to motivate me to come back better than ever, but i know its going to take a while.. But the real reason I am posting this is to inform all of you that there is a dangerous supplement out there that i have just resently learned that caused this ilness. Its called X-Factor, or arachidonic acid. I was taking this sup 3 weeks prior to when this al started, and frankly it worked great! i actually gained 4lbs in the 4 week i took it. It was one of the only sups i ever took that did what it claimed. I stopped taking it when i got sick, cause i couldnt work out any way. I didnt think anything of it till the other day when I received info from a cousin who is kinda a wholistic doctor, and one of the articles he sent me on colitis specifically said to limit your daily intake of AA to less than 60mg. to keep the colitis in remission. What?? i then realized the connection, i was taking 1000mg. a day, just as the directions said to. You see, just as the company says, AA works by increasing prostaglandins, (they are hormones or chemicals that cause inflamation). This is a natural occurance with the healing process. The problem is when you increase the prostaglandins as much as AA does, some peoples immune system goes haywire, and starts to attack parts of the body (like my colon) thinkin it is a virus or germ. Im not a internist dr. or anything, but i know that increasing prostaglandin production is a bad thing in more ways than it is good. I am on corticosteroids for about 8 weeks to try to suppress the colitis. Corticosteroids work by suppressing the immune system, and therefor reducing the prostaglandin production. This is a common treatment for any autoimmune dissorder,(a dissorder where there are too many prostaglandins causing unnessary inflamation) such as arthritis, chrones, and colitis. Take it from me, dont ever try any supplement with arachidonic acid, it may cause a autoimmune dissorder, like it did to me. I dont know if there is anybody else out there that had a reaction to this stuff, but it ruined 7 weeks of my life, 2.5 years of weight training, tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills, and now possibly a compromised life, cause I may very well have subsequent attaks, and am at a higher risk of colon cancer. There may be foods i may not be able to eat also, its all going to take time to heal, and sort things out. It is in my mind, any supp with AA should be taken off the shelf, it nearly ruined my life. atleast there needs to be more warnings about possible side effects