Good luck with those things Bex <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I think it's certainly worth a try.

If you want to experiment sometime, you could try taking vitamin C to bowel tolerance for a few days and see what happens. Maybe nothing, who knows. Or maybe your doc would be willing to give you some injections, which would be even better. I guess I am sentimental about this wonderful vitamin because it was one of the first ones I learned about, and I read one of Linus Pauling's books. His enthusiasm is infectious. One of his theories is interesting too. He believed that humans used to have the ability to synthesise their own C, like most other animals do. At some point in our evolution it was so plentiful in the diet that this ability was lost. Now that most people do not get the nutrients they need from diet alone, many people have a subclinical C deficiency. The idea here is that the fewer vitamins an animal has to synthesise, the more evolutionarily advantageous it is. Pauling did some experiments with microbes and found that when he genetically extracted their ability to synthesise a nutrient, but gave it to them in their food, they reproduced at a faster rate than a control group. Interesting, huh? He thought that the optimum C intake for most people is around 10,000mg a day, though his recommendation was for 3,000-10,000 -- when a person is well. A person can tolerate upwards of 100,000mg when they are ill, depending on the illness.

Anyway, if you cut supplements out, keep the C <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Best wishes,
Linda.