Posted 9/22/2012 2:55 PM (GMT 0)
Many doctors just can't think outside the box and that's what you have to do with UC. All many of these doctors know is what the book says and the book says to destroy your body with steroids, immunosuppressants and biologics before going the surgery route. It can often be "killing" the patient (for lack of a better phrase) in order to save the colon. Thankfully there are a lot of doctors open to natural treatments such as probiotics, etc. - mostly because there isn't much they can do for you except making you worse in one way in order to make your UC better. I sometimes come off as bashing doctors but, in a way, I actually feel sorry for them. Patients come to them because they are miserable and they look up to these doctors with sad eyes, wanting some ray of hope that there will be an end to this madness and the doctors know inside that in most cases all they can do is destroy our body with these horrible drugs in order to give us UC relief. Having said that, you need to dump this idiot and get someone you feel more comfortable with and will let you in on the decision making process. This is your life, not his. Talk to your regular family doctor and let them know what you are looking for in a gastro and hopefully they can refer you to someone who fits the bill.