being optomisitc is fine, as long as you are also realistic. Cures for everything have been coming down the pipes for years now. new meds for all diseases come out all the time, and they are the new "cure" and some of them work for some people, some don't. If someone feesl comfortable waiting it out and seeing if one of the new meds that might come out one day will cure you, then that's great. As long as the person also realizes that it's a small chance, that is will actually work, and that goes for all diseases.
I didn't try all the meds, i didn't try very many actually, i got tired of waiting to see if something would work and then being nervous and wondering when it would fail, and honestly i wish i had have jumped straight to surgery the first day i saw blood! and if my son ever gets this, we had a scare a few years ago, and i told my husband flat out, there will be no drugs, there will be no wait and see, if he has UC, his colon comes out. My reason for that is that I personally don't think it's worth the long time med risks and the long term toll on the body and all you miss out on life. And i wouldnt want him to miss out like i did.
I don't understand the pushing surgery on people either, most GI's are against it, they want to treat, that's what their job is. My GI didn't bring it up to me, i went to him, and i said, i want surgery, he said, try remi, i did it failed, i went back he suggested something else, i said, either you find me a surgeon to take my colon out, or i will take it out myself. And i was serious, i think i would have. he supported my decision, but had never suggested it to me. And i think that's the way most GI's are, at least from the majority of stories i have heard.
It seems that people are either dead set against surgery and view it as giving up, or people are for surgery and view it as winning. That's the person's choice.