food makes me sick.

What kind of ideas are you looking for? The ones I have involve you going to the GI and getting a work up to see what's going on, and then you resuming your meds.

Ah, so you might be intolerant of mesalamines.

When you say you are trying a "natural approach" what does that mean exactly?

You might try reading up on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. That's about the best organized dietary approach that I've seen, although lots of other ideas circulate on this board. Some have success, others not.

Another simpler approach is to eliminate the common irritants: lactose, gluten and then casein. I would do them sequentially. Lactose you can get rid of in a day or two and evaluate any improvements. Gluten you will need to avoid completely for at least two weeks, four would be better, before deciding whether it made a difference for you. Casein is harder to eliminate than both of these things (it is present in many, many processed foods and everything dairy) but improvements should be evident pretty quickly.

There are herbal and other remedies discussed here. Search the forum for turmeric, LDN, wild oregano....probably others but I cannot recall all. The resource link at the top of the forum should have a lot of this info.

Really good ideal, I cut out most gluten but I still eat pretty unhealthy.so I think I will try the broth approach, and I heard of turmeric I think I will also give it a try, thank you sooo much, and lot's of love.

Hmmm, spinach sounds really good.but like if I just ate broth and veggies wouldn't I need some type of meat?

Sounds like you gave the doc one chance and then gave him the heave-ho. Seriously, that's why your posting here, because natural hasn't worked for you. If natural doesn't work then asking for other naturals probably isn't going to work either. Just being realistic. If going natural was so successful a lot of us wouldn't be posting here. Almost all of us have tried natural something or other and we're still here. You really didn't give meds a fair chance.

Every UC patient is different. Unfortunately, all a doctor can do is try something and see if it works. If it doesn't he moves on to something else. It is possible you were intolerant to the enema he put you on. That's not really his fault. I don't think you have the whole story. I don't believe I have ever seen someone where enemas did not work and the enema was responsible for someone being in the hospital for two weeks. Sounds more to me like the enema didn't work, your UC became worse, and it was really your UC getting worse which put you in the hospital and it had nothing to do with the enema. It's also possible that the enema could have worked but you ate something that disagreed with your UC at the same time and blamed the enema for your problems when it might not have been the problem at all. Also, this is a disease where you have to read up on the treatments yourself and be an active participant in the treatment decisions. The doctor can help you through this process but you don't have to rely solely on what he says and if that doesn't work then you just dump him and go natural. Some people can get better going natural but you don't seem to be one of them. Medicines aren't guaranteed to put your UC into remission and nothing natural is either.

Good points I never thought I could be allergic to the sulfites in it.or it could've not been the enema or all, I defiantly have to do some research into it, and if the doc tells me something, I should look it up or something. As for the natural approach, it doesn't really seem to be working, so I guess I should go pay the doc a vist. And thank you everyone for all your help ^.^