the crazy thing now is that doctors, especially a specialist, have deals with the drug companies... that means the drug companies control the doctors. My wife has ulcerative colitis and her original GI specialist tried to tell her that diet had nothing to do with the ulcers and that she just needed to stay on the meds...well it didn't work and he just kept upping the dosage...needless to say she had to spend 2 weeks in the hosipital because he wouldn't do anything besides up the dosage of a drug that wasn't even working for her... when she got out we switched and her new GI specialist told her that it is almost 100% diet and that she can control it with very little prescription drugs... also the drug she was on was a danger to her kidneys when used in the amounts she was taking.