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UC: Living Without Medication
My Path to Freedom
Ten years of ulcerative colitis, then ten years without medication. In between: cold, breathing, fasting, sport, and a lot of failed experiments.
Read the opening for free
The introduction and the start of the journey, up to the diagnosis: about a dozen pages as a PDF, sent straight away. And I will tell you when the book is out — nothing else.
What this book is about
For more than ten years I lived with ulcerative colitis. A chronic inflammatory bowel disease people rarely talk about, because it touches on things we would rather keep quiet.
I was offered lifelong treatment and a daily life under permanent medical supervision. I ended up looking for something else. Not against medicine, which treated me when it mattered, but alongside it: cold, breathing, fasting, sport, discipline and letting go. I experimented on myself, got it wrong often, and today I have been living without medication for over ten years.
This book is not a medical guide and promises no cure. It is my story, told without a filter and with the humour that helped me hold on. The flare-ups, the nights in A&E, the relapses, the small victories, and what I make of it now.
It is for you if you live with IBD, if someone close to you does, or if you are simply looking for another way of thinking about the body and the measure of control you can take back.
What is inside
The journey, in the order it happened
- The diagnosis, the denial and the first colonoscopy
- Hospital stays, relapses and humiliation
- Boxing as therapy, and a first competition
- Cold: ice showers and mental resilience
- Breathing as a way to take back control
- Intermittent fasting, and where it stops working
- How the people around you bring old habits back
- What I know, and what I do not know
Each chapter closes on a « Questions for you, reader » box and on what I make of it now. Eleven boxes in all.
In the meantime, you can already read
Important: This book is a personal account. I am not a doctor and it promises no cure. Under no circumstances should it lead you to stop or change a treatment without your gastroenterologist's agreement.